The Exhibits committee assembled a subcommittee to explore tools and processes to publish online exhibits, whether analogs to physical exhibits, or exhibits that only exist online.
The group considered many tools, including more display-focused packages such as Creativist and Google Open Gallery, and more metadata-driven tools such as Omeka, Collective Access, Collection Space, and more interactive tools such as Open Exhibit and Viewshare.
Ultimately the group decided that our needs were more display-focused, as metadata would generally be handled by the BDR, but the tools we’d examined didn’t meet our needs for dynamic and varied display. Instead, we decided to work on developing a WordPress theme that would be flexible enough for the project’s requirements. The first example is the exhibit The Unicorn Found.