Started an "in progress" site for the Foundation.
Working on an "oral history" design brief for the website (Lisanti)
Why people would go to the site because they want to
see beautiful photographs (general public)
remember their experience with Doc (Doc's friends and colleagues, alums)
experience Edgerton as representative of MIT (ethos, philosophy, spirit)
read about technologies that Doc created
looking for teaching materials (K-12 teachers). There could be learning tracks, eg stroboscopic photography learning track, underwater photography learning track, etc.
research materials (researchers)
The future website will:
Tell Doc's story - web pages to be edited by Suzana
Allow users to browse by topic and media
Advanced search with defined search specs (full text, which fields?)
Have a glossary of key terms (can link to wikipedia)
Visitors will be able to
- Identify objects or pages (add tags or description)
- Transcribe a page (literal transcription)
- Contribute a story
What do we want with image display?
- Ability to see the artistic photos separately from all images
Page turning feature, see http://www.issuu.com
for our collections, a "next" and "previous" link will work, and the notebook image will load in the viewer.