Digital exhibits can be tricky, expensive, and time consuming endeavors. So much work goes into the exhibit before the public ever has access to it. Even once an exhibit or digital project is up for the public to view, work on the project is not over, at least it should not be. Technology advances at such…
The Mollie West collection at the Women and Leadership Archives is extensive. With a few recent accession, the collection will eventually contain records from almost every year of Mollie’s life. Mollie’s papers contains records that encompass both her private and public life. The majority of the exhibit will focus on Mollie’s work in the public eye but…
A quick search for online exhibitions and videos brought me to the National WWI Museum and Memorial website. Several of their online exhibitions contain a variety of media. I focused on the “Home Before the Leaves Fall” exhibit. This exhibit explores the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the July Crisis and the opening months of the…
Augmented reality (AR), as explained by Bryan Alexander in The New Digital Storytelling, refers to “linking digital content to the physical world, especially by location.” This is different from virtual reality because VR represents the “physical world in digital terms.” Augmented reality adds a digital component to the “analog or offline world.” Alexander explains there…
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