MuseumWeb Blog
Zoomify in HTML5 – implementation advice in Drupal 7
0 MuseumWeb blog | Updated 4 months ago
We wanted to use Zoomify (http://www.zoomify.com) on our site to show details of high resolution digitized imagery of collection items. However, Zoomify was built as a Flash application, and due to accessibility issues, we can’t use it as a Flash application.
However, Zoomify was nice enough to release a HTML5 version: http://www.zoomify.com/html5.htm - hooray! $30 and the problem is solved.
BUT (and there’s always a but) implementation into our Drupal 7 environment has a few issues when using the Drupal Zoomify module.
Revisiting the Sydney
0 MuseumWeb blog | Updated 8 months ago
Hi there.
For our Immerse exhibition we've been collaborating with the good people at Hungry Skies, a local games development house, to use archival ROV footage of the HMAS Sydney (II) to build a 3D version of the wreck.
The interactive has now been installed at the Maritime Museum in one of the interactives for the Immerse exhibition (come check it out). You use the touchscreen interactive to pilot around the wreck as if you were piloting the ROV.
The "new" site is one year old!
0 MuseumWeb blog | Updated 8 months ago
Our website is now a year old. During that time it's increased from 1200 pages to close to 100,000 pages, and some big additions include:
- a notable segment of our collections coming online,
- close to 70 videos added,
- live streaming of field work from the Kimberlely,
- dozens of blog posts,
- heaps of photo galleries,
- almost a dozen exhibition subsites and online exhibitions.
And we have loads more just around the corner. Thanks for visiting!
Modern browsers the order of the day
0 MuseumWeb blog | Updated 10 months ago
We've been going through our web statistics recently and noted one observation that would be music to ears of web developers. And this oberservation is certainly going down a treat in the web team - the public are adopting modern browsers that support modern standards in increasing numbers.
WAM launches an IPTV Channel
0 MuseumWeb blog | Updated 1 years ago
The WA Museum is very proud to collaborate with iiNet to have launched our own IPTV presence in iiNet’s Freezone:
http://freezone.iinet.net.au/channels/freezone/documentaries/wamuseum
Every month we will be releasing a selection of videos available unmetered to iiNet customers. Of course, these videos will still be available on our website for non-iiNet customers.
Interview with Museum CEO Alec Coles - his views on technology and more
0 MuseumWeb blog | Updated 1 years ago
Museum CEO Alec Coles talks from the WA Museum - Maritime talks about technology, museum collections, exhibitions and much more.
Exploring the Shipwrecks of WA – Online
0 MuseumWeb blog | Updated 1 years ago
Recently, we just redeveloped our online Maritime Archaeology Databases to ensure that the ANCODS collection* was integrated into our online database.
* ANCODS is an acronym for the Agreement between Australia and the Netherlands Concerning Old Dutch Shipwrecks. In March 2011 the last of the artefacts were gifted from the Netherlands to the Western Australian Museum which consolidated the entire collection.
Re-encoding video for people on the move
0 MuseumWeb blog | Updated 1 years ago
Howdy and welcome back to the WA Museum blogs for 2011. Over January, we’ve been playing around a fair bit with our video compression processes, madly testing on our mobile phones on various connection speeds and researching other organisations and their approach to video encoding and compression.
We also looked at our stats to see what our visitors were using to access the site (on both computers and mobile devices) and found a few interesting findings about our mobile device users, including:
Moving megamouth
0 MuseumWeb blog | Updated 1 years ago
In September this year we moved the mighty megamouth shark. He was living in a 7000 litre tank of ethanol at our Perth Museum. In 2011, demolition works were going to be performed at the nearby Francis Street Building, and 7000 litres of ethanol was a bit too dangerous to have so closeby.
Thus, a monumental move was planned.
Turning the pages of Kalgoorlie's history
0 MuseumWeb blog | Updated 2 years ago
The Museum's web team and exhibitions team have combined to bring historic photos and stories of the goldfields back to life. This interactive book will be used to create a large touch screen display in the redevelopment of the Kalgoorlie Museum.
The Kalgoorlie redevelopment is scheduled to be released to the public at the start of December 2010.
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0 MuseumWeb blog | Updated 2 years ago
One admirable decision that the WA Museum recently made was to publish all of the Museum’s records as a free resource on the website.
http://museum.wa.gov.au/research/records-supplements/#records
Museum vodcasts are streaming in (bad pun I know)
0 MuseumWeb blog | Updated 2 years ago
One thing we didn’t quite expect when we published this website, was the volume of vodcasts and videos that we would be accommodating; a very welcome surprise.
We were initially planning for the release of one vodcast or one video per week, produced by the web team. But now that we have an ever-growing video presence, and lots of people within the Museum wanting to contribute, our current video index page is already growing out of its capacity and we’ve already had to increase publishing to two videos per week.
WA Museum's new website: collections, interactives and ribbons
0 MuseumWeb blog | Updated 2 years ago
Hello there. This is Morgan, and I’m the manager of web services over here at the Western Australian Museum.
We’ve just released this brand new website for the Museum. There’s a lot more information about our fantastic curatorial staff, our huge collections (4.5 million artefacts and counting) and also, this website heralds the introduction of some online features like vodcasts, online exhibitions and photo galleries.