1. Travellers’ Tails: Exploring with Meta-Data
Lucy Yates

2. George Stubbs, The Kongouro from New Holland (Kangaroo) (1772)
George Stubbs, Portrait of a Large Dog (Dingo) (1772)

3. The Captain Cook Memorial Museum, Whitby
Grant Museum of Zoology, UCL
Horniman Museum and Gardens
Hunterian Museum, Glasgow

10. Tagger Working across collections Metadata normalization
Redundant Tagging
Interface Design

11. To enable visitors to respond to provocative challenges and engage with heritage via the collections in a non-textual way via digital media
2. To enable visitors to find ways into and connect the stories behind collection objects from all project partners
3. To present content and its context for viewers to experience in a way that creates a sense of empathy
4. To investigate how to capture conversation and debate between visitors around the stories and objects highlighted via the digital interpretation tool, and feed this back into the collections, enhancing other users’ experience of them
Visitors were asked ‘How did voyages of exploration change our view of the world?’ and then used either the gestural or touchscreen interfaces to create a visual journey by selecting one of four images displayed that related to the previous image chosen. These images were linked by similar metadata or by the software determining they looked similar.
springy web of images to allow examination of images in greater detail & dynamic journey through images
reveal’ to display chosen images and related tags
more provocative questions
inclusion of an introductory video
Links to a web-based platform to continue
experience & investigation
Findings –

12. To enable visitors to respond to provocative challenges and engage with heritage via the collections in a non-textual way via digital media
2. To enable visitors to find ways into and connect the stories behind collection objects from all project partners
3. To present content and its context for viewers to experience in a way that creates a sense of empathy
4. To investigate how to capture conversation and debate between visitors around the stories and objects highlighted via the digital interpretation tool, and feed this back into the collections, enhancing other users’ experience of them
Visitors were asked ‘How did voyages of exploration change our view of the world?’ and then used either the gestural or touchscreen interfaces to create a visual journey by selecting one of four images displayed that related to the previous image chosen. These images were linked by similar metadata or by the software determining they looked similar.
springy web of images to allow examination of images in greater detail & dynamic journey through images
reveal’ to display chosen images and related tags
more provocative questions
inclusion of an introductory video
Links to a web-based platform to continue
experience & investigation
Findings –

13. To enable visitors to respond to provocative challenges and engage with heritage via the collections in a non-textual way via digital media
2. To enable visitors to find ways into and connect the stories behind collection objects from all project partners
3. To present content and its context for viewers to experience in a way that creates a sense of empathy
4. To investigate how to capture conversation and debate between visitors around the stories and objects highlighted via the digital interpretation tool, and feed this back into the collections, enhancing other users’ experience of them
Visitors were asked ‘How did voyages of exploration change our view of the world?’ and then used either the gestural or touchscreen interfaces to create a visual journey by selecting one of four images displayed that related to the previous image chosen. These images were linked by similar metadata or by the software determining they looked similar.
springy web of images to allow examination of images in greater detail & dynamic journey through images
reveal’ to display chosen images and related tags
more provocative questions
inclusion of an introductory video
Links to a web-based platform to continue
experience & investigation
Findings –

14. To enable visitors to respond to provocative challenges and engage with heritage via the collections in a non-textual way via digital media
2. To enable visitors to find ways into and connect the stories behind collection objects from all project partners
3. To present content and its context for viewers to experience in a way that creates a sense of empathy
4. To investigate how to capture conversation and debate between visitors around the stories and objects highlighted via the digital interpretation tool, and feed this back into the collections, enhancing other users’ experience of them
Visitors were asked ‘How did voyages of exploration change our view of the world?’ and then used either the gestural or touchscreen interfaces to create a visual journey by selecting one of four images displayed that related to the previous image chosen. These images were linked by similar metadata or by the software determining they looked similar.
springy web of images to allow examination of images in greater detail & dynamic journey through images
reveal’ to display chosen images and related tags
more provocative questions
inclusion of an introductory video
Links to a web-based platform to continue
experience & investigation
Findings –

15. To enable visitors to respond to provocative challenges and engage with heritage via the collections in a non-textual way via digital media
2. To enable visitors to find ways into and connect the stories behind collection objects from all project partners
3. To present content and its context for viewers to experience in a way that creates a sense of empathy
4. To investigate how to capture conversation and debate between visitors around the stories and objects highlighted via the digital interpretation tool, and feed this back into the collections, enhancing other users’ experience of them
Visitors were asked ‘How did voyages of exploration change our view of the world?’ and then used either the gestural or touchscreen interfaces to create a visual journey by selecting one of four images displayed that related to the previous image chosen. These images were linked by similar metadata or by the software determining they looked similar.
springy web of images to allow examination of images in greater detail & dynamic journey through images
reveal’ to display chosen images and related tags
more provocative questions
inclusion of an introductory video
Links to a web-based platform to continue
experience & investigation
Findings –

16. To enable visitors to respond to provocative challenges and engage with heritage via the collections in a non-textual way via digital media
2. To enable visitors to find ways into and connect the stories behind collection objects from all project partners
3. To present content and its context for viewers to experience in a way that creates a sense of empathy
4. To investigate how to capture conversation and debate between visitors around the stories and objects highlighted via the digital interpretation tool, and feed this back into the collections, enhancing other users’ experience of them
Visitors were asked ‘How did voyages of exploration change our view of the world?’ and then used either the gestural or touchscreen interfaces to create a visual journey by selecting one of four images displayed that related to the previous image chosen. These images were linked by similar metadata or by the software determining they looked similar.
springy web of images to allow examination of images in greater detail & dynamic journey through images
reveal’ to display chosen images and related tags
more provocative questions
inclusion of an introductory video
Links to a web-based platform to continue
experience & investigation
Findings –

17. Ownership
Tagging
Collecting
Target Audience

18. Ownership
Tagging
Collecting
Target Audience