MW2006 BoW Nomination: Innovative: EVERY OBJECT TELLS A STORY [http://www.everyobject.net]
Site: EVERY OBJECT TELLS A STORY
URL: http://www.everyobject.net
Institution: Commissioned by Culture Online, part of the Department of Culture, Media and Sport.
Designer[s]: Produced by the Victoria and Albert Museum with Ultralab and Channel 4.
Category: Innovative
Explanation: Every Object Tells A Story allows users to upload images, video, audio and explanations of their favourite object, as well as browse and comment on this amazing online collection: illustrating how a single object can mean a rich variety of different things to different people. Taking as its starting point the superb collections of the V&A and other regional museums, the website is the first to allow people of all backgrounds and ages to record their responses online to museum and personal objects, creating a vast interactive database. People can respond through video, audio, text and images. Using also a mobile video booth in museums, community centres or even shopping centres across the country enables people to comment and create short videos which are then added to the website, making this project accessible to a wide range of people who might otherwise not have access to video equipment or the internet. Finally, with the Every Object Tells A Story podcast, audiences can download and listen to stories by V&A curators, researchers and conservators on an iPod, mp3 player or desktop computer. Each story is illustrated so you can see the painting while you listen.
Nominated by:
Susan McFarland
Editor
Learning & Interpretation Department
Victoria and Albert Museum
United Kingdom
www: http://www.vam.ac.uk
See the Museums and the Web 2006 Best of the Web site http://www.archimuse.com/mw2006/best/
for the results anytime after March 24, 2006.
All sites are reviewed by the Best of the Web judges. Nominating a
site multiple times does NOT improve its chances of winning an award.
Jennifer Trant and David Bearman, Archives & Museum Informatics
MW2006 Conference Co-Chairs
http://www.archimuse.com/mw2006/
URL: http://www.everyobject.net
Institution: Commissioned by Culture Online, part of the Department of Culture, Media and Sport.
Designer[s]: Produced by the Victoria and Albert Museum with Ultralab and Channel 4.
Category: Innovative
Explanation: Every Object Tells A Story allows users to upload images, video, audio and explanations of their favourite object, as well as browse and comment on this amazing online collection: illustrating how a single object can mean a rich variety of different things to different people. Taking as its starting point the superb collections of the V&A and other regional museums, the website is the first to allow people of all backgrounds and ages to record their responses online to museum and personal objects, creating a vast interactive database. People can respond through video, audio, text and images. Using also a mobile video booth in museums, community centres or even shopping centres across the country enables people to comment and create short videos which are then added to the website, making this project accessible to a wide range of people who might otherwise not have access to video equipment or the internet. Finally, with the Every Object Tells A Story podcast, audiences can download and listen to stories by V&A curators, researchers and conservators on an iPod, mp3 player or desktop computer. Each story is illustrated so you can see the painting while you listen.
Nominated by:
Susan McFarland
Editor
Learning & Interpretation Department
Victoria and Albert Museum
United Kingdom
www: http://www.vam.ac.uk
See the Museums and the Web 2006 Best of the Web site http://www.archimuse.com/mw2006/best/
for the results anytime after March 24, 2006.
All sites are reviewed by the Best of the Web judges. Nominating a
site multiple times does NOT improve its chances of winning an award.
Jennifer Trant and David Bearman, Archives & Museum Informatics
MW2006 Conference Co-Chairs
http://www.archimuse.com/mw2006/
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