by Roger Layton | Jun 8, 2016 | ETHER Digital, ETHER Experience, Museum Web Sites, Museums
The first article in this series introduced the issues with museum web sites, including those issues common to all historical sites and memory institutions. In this second article I focus on some of the content required and how this content can be adapted to meet the...
by Roger Layton | May 9, 2016 | ETHER Experience, Museums, user experience
We conducted an analysis of museum web sites almost ten years ago, with the purpose of understanding how good are local museum web sites compared to the best in the world, and we repeated this study four years ago. We have recently commenced a new such survey of South...
by Roger Layton | Jul 15, 2015 | databases, digitisation, digitisation strategy, ETHER Education, project management, SPECTRUM, storage management, workshops
We are pleased to announce our schedule of courses to be run from September to November 2015. We are running workshops on SPECTRUM, Digitisation, Database Development, Web Development, Storage Management, and Project Management during this period, and we will be...
by Roger Layton | Feb 25, 2015 | ETHER Experience, Museum of Mathematics, Museums, user experience
I have always considered Alan Turing to be my personal hero, the one historical figure whom I can look up to and acknowledge. Alan who? you say! His life story has been the subject of a recent movie, The Imitation Game, which made it to the final few movies for the...
by Roger Layton | Oct 9, 2014 | ETHER Governance
With the advent of the King III Code, all institutions now are required to comply with the rules of good practices for corporate governance, and this includes not-for-profit institutions, government bodies and agencies, as well as the private sector. One of the new...
by Roger Layton | Oct 9, 2014 | ETHER Experience, user experience
Two years ago we designed and built the Virtual Tour Guide, as a way that you can provide information to your visitors using their own mobile phones. This provides benefits to both the visitors, in terms of a more informed and modern experience, and also to the...
