I Want to Use Your Collections!

Sheila A. Brennan

Associate Director of Public Projects

@sherah1918

I built it. No one came.

ID Audiences

Primary Audiences for mallhistories.org

• Tourists visiting the National Mall with mobile devices

• Hometown tourists, bringing family/friends from out of town to the Mall

• DC Interns• Secondary Audiences

• History enthusiasts not on the Mall• Public historians

Create Personas

SI Learning Lab, http://learninglab.si.edu/

Design for All

Mobiles?

Symbols Matter

Test

Histories of the National Mall: http://mallhistories.org

Ask

Open Content

National Gallery of Art, https://images.nga.gov/

Infrastructure that Keeps on Giving

Cooper-Hewitt Labs: http://labs.cooperhewitt.org/

Collections as Data

https://github.com/cooperhewitt/collection

Te Papa’s Digital Principles

https://github.com/te-papa/digital-principles/blob/master/digital-principles.md

APIs Don’t Have to be Hard

http://omeka.org

Discovery is not only about Search

Rijks Museum, https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en

Share for Reuse

http://mallhistory.org/items/show/383

Let others Build

Don’t do This

Thank you!

Sheila A. BrennanRoy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media

sbrennan@gmu.edu@sherah1918

http://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/5h73tm30x