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Book-Browsing using KE Emu: Publishing Books on-line 12 April 2007

Contents. The project - Thomas Wardle sample booksReview of other book-browsing technologiesDeveloping KE Emu's Book-BrowserThe Flash alternativeQuestions. Thomas Wardle Sample Books. The Whitworth's textile collection11 sample books used at Thomas Wardle4 groups5 Block print trials3 Block record books2 Copper roller books1 Colourways record bookDated between 1875 and 19152000 pages, 1500 excluding blanks plus 200 samples.

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Book-Browsing using KE Emu: Publishing Books on-line 12 April 2007

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    1. Book-Browsing using KE Emu: Publishing Books on-line 12 April 2007 Julian Tomlin Head of Administration

    2. Contents The project - Thomas Wardle sample books Review of other book-browsing technologies Developing KE Emus Book-Browser The Flash alternative Questions

    3. Thomas Wardle Sample Books The Whitworths textile collection 11 sample books used at Thomas Wardle 4 groups 5 Block print trials 3 Block record books 2 Copper roller books 1 Colourways record book Dated between 1875 and 1915 2000 pages, 1500 excluding blanks plus 200 samples

    4. Wardle Sample Books Revealed Designation Challenge Fund 2006/8 Grant of 59k for 76.5k project cost Aims To reveal Thomas Wardles contribution to story of textile and design history To use new research to tease out unexplored links and meanings To facilitate public engagement by disseminating it in different ways To exploit new technologies to make difficult material accessible to users To collaborate with other North West museums

    5. The Task

    6. Wardle Sample Books Revealed Liaison with other Designated collections in North West Specialist researchers Mind-maps Data entry coordinator For entering records in KE EMu Conservation Photography Page by page, including inserts Publication - including Book-Browsing

    7. Review - Whats out there? British Library Turning the Page Tate Gallery Sketchbook viewer (catalogue style interface) Turner sketchbooks Flash viewer Edward Hopper; Donald Rodney Museum Victoria Caught and Coloured

    8. KE EMu Book-Browser Spinning the Web TUC - Workers War Tailoring to produce a better browser Drawing up spec Delivery and testing Detailed cataloguing Launch

    9. Whitworth Book-Browser Search Results Integration with on-line Collections Catalogue Built-in recognition of books to determine how published Changing search results Adding searching for narratives in Simple Search Results Try these narratives first . Then objects list Revised to Try narratives in these categories (by narrative type)/Or these objects (by collection group)

    10. Search results

    11. Whitworth Book-Browser Book pages Generic development Page by page display to include related narratives Page Description narrative published in full Other narratives published as links Related objects and Multimedia also published Navigation - forward, back, start, end but not Flash Demonstration of test pages

    12. Flash pages Not KE EMu but using EMu Open Source software Page-flip, based on Adobe Flash Custom design Generic development Navigation Link to and from KE EMu catalogue record References Multimedia from KE Emu Test page

    13. Next steps Develop object/narrative search results Evaluate in context of website Complete KE EMu development Catalogue and publish Wardle Sample Books and Walter Crane Childrens Books and Share with other KE EMu users!

    14. References The North West Pattern Book Survey, Philip A Sykas, Textile History, 32 (2), 156 -174, 2001 Page Turning: Revealing the interface issues of on-line document viewing, Karen Elinich, Museums and Web, 2006 http://www.archimuse.com British Library / Turning the Page http://www.bl.uk / http://www.turningthepage.com Tate Gallery http://www.tate.org.uk Spinning the Web http://www.spinningtheweb.org.uk Museum Victoria - Caught and Coloured - Choose Prodromus of Zoology of Victoria from highlights of McCoys World http://www.museum.vic.gov.au/caughtandcoloured Downloadable page flip software http://www.iparigrafika.hu/pageflip/ / http://www.page-flip.com

    15. Thank you julian@juliantomlin.com http://www.manchester.ac.uk/whitworth

    16. A page from one of the Pattern Books

    17. The End

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