The Virtual Exhibit - How to create a tour?

Lecture 5: How to create a tour?

Theme, tour title, tour introduction

1. A theme should speak to the reader's imagination

2. A tour should be written on the basis of a) a question or b) a statement that is connected to the theme of the tour

3. Pitch the question or statement in one sentence. This is what the tour is going to give the reader information on.

4. Create a tour title

5. Write a 50 word summary about the one sentence statement /question. The summary contains pitch words referring directly or indirectly to the sub-topics of the different stories in the tour.

1. a theme

2. a central question or statement

3. tour introduction

4. six stories including bibliography

5. six objects

6. metadata for the object

7. a photo and biography of the curator

Components of a tour

5. six objects

4. six stories including bibliography

6. metadata for the object

1. a theme

2. a central question or statement

3. tour introduction

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Deadline November 5, 12:00 p.m.!!!!!

7. a photo and biography of the curator

Hand in as a group:

1. title and topic of your tour

2. a one-sentence statement that tells what the tour will be about

3. Specify for each story:

a. title

b. object

c. one-sentence key story statement

d. at least 2 sources on which the story will be based

e. sources need to be selected from JStore, Picarta and/or newspaper database of i.e. Royal Library in the Hague

Note:

1. specify who writes which story

2. the 4-6 stories and objects have to make one coherent tour

3. Each tour needs to tell a European story.

4. each object has to be selected from a DIFFERENT tour in Inventing Europe, from the "Explore our partner's collections" or from "Explore Europeana". - This means that you cannot select 2 objects from 1 Inventing Europe tour.

5. Each story needs to be DIFFERENT from the stories that are already told on www.inventingeurope.eu

6. Use of Wikipedia as a source is NOT accepted

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Objects and metadata

Private collection

Oral history

Source: Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision

a. large digital database

b. precise use of rules for web publication, a.o. use of dublin core standards for metadata

1. Select an intriguing object: ask yourself why it is intriguing. This helps you in writing the metadata and the story

2. Apply source criticism to the object on the basis of the Object of History Guide: http://objectofhistory.org/guide/

3. Make sure that the object is documented adequately on the basis of good metadata.

4. Metadata conform Dublin Core standards: http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/

5. Fill out as many fields in the metadata as possible:

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1. language

2. date

3. description

4.publisher

5. description English

6. rights

7. identifier

8. creator

9. subject

10. type

11. source

12. contributor

Theme, tour title, tour introduction

Ask questions to the object and metadata

to get to your story topic

1. Discuss adaptations to the tour title, statement and introduction

2. Discuss the choices for the topics of the 4-6 stories

3. Make a choice how you fit the 4-6 stories together within one tour.

That is: Define the order of the stories within the tour

a. thematically?

b. chronologically?

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The story

1. max. 200 word story

2. historically and socially contextualized story about an object placed in a European context.

3. use the writing about the web instructions:

a. title

b. length

c. structure

d. language

4. position your story in relation to your object.

a. object and story need to be equally important

b. objects are NOT merely illustrations

5. each story is based on at least 2 relevant and trustworthy sources selected from JStore, Picarta and/or newspapers.

a. Criteria: real search for good sources

b. substantial use of sources

c. Wikipedia as a source is NOT accepted

6. Use correct reference system: i.e. Chicago Manual Style

Curator photo and biography

What kind of look and feel does the Inventing Europe website try to create for its visitors?

1. increases visitor's trust in validity tour

2. personalizes the website - impression that a person with a name and face communicates to visitor

3. choice of image and biography communicates look and feel

Example:

theme - tour title - tour question/statement - definition story topics - find and read literature- search for 6 objects - apply object criticism - write story - discuss and improve tour statement an summary - improve story - improve object metadata

tour statement/question

tour summary/introduction

photo and biography curator

Different entries to creating a tour

tour title

theme

object criticism

6 stories

Example:

Object - object criticism - theme - story - tour question/statement - tour title - tour summary - adaptation story - improvement metadata

6x metadata

6 objects

literature: European, social and

historical contextualization

theme, tour title, tour introduction

1. Discuss and make necessary adaptations to the tour title, statement and introduction

2. Make necessary adaptations to the chronology of the stories, adapt topics of stories within the larger frame of the tour subject.

Make sure everything connects and fits together!!