User Interface Updates

Working on an "oral history" design brief for the website (Lisanti)
Why people would go to the site because they want to

1. see beautiful photographs (general public)
2. remember their experience with Doc (Doc's friends and colleagues)
3. experience Edgerton as representative of MIT (ethos, philosophy, spirit)
4. read about technologies that Doc created
5. Looking for teaching materials (K-12 teachers)

The future website will:

1. Tell Doc's story - web pages to be edited by Suzana
2. Allow users to browse by topic and media
3. Advanced search with defined search specs (full text, which fields?)
4. Timeline (examples: Old North Church and Serial Experience
5. Show the relationship among the items presented
6. Have a glossary of key terms (can link to wikipedia)
7. Visitors will be able to
   - Identify objects or pages (add tags or description)
   - Transcribe a page (literal transcription)
   - Contribute a story
8. What do we want with image display?
   - Ability to see the artistic photos separately from all images
9. 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.
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Oral History Websites

Diary and notebook pages websites

Cool Functionality (summary)

Documents

Wireframe Sept 2008 (PDF)