Ritmuse.wordpress.com Website Review

Students are preparing their third project, for which each student has flexibility in terms of content, methodology, and application. Students select 24 items to catalogue and disseminate via content management system or platform of their choice. See here the digital exhibits. This year, we are using Omeka, Timeline JS, and WordPress. See below for links: Individual exhibit cases in Timeline format populated by each student: Continue reading “Digital Exhibits in Omeka, Timeline JS, Wordpress” → This site is one of the digital workspaces for museum studies students to disseminate their work. This site began in the Fall 2015, specifically as a means of dissemination for work created by students enrolled in the Cultural Informatics clas*. From September-December 2015, the site was used by Prof. Juilee Decker and the students enrolled in the Cultural Informatics course Prof. Decker developed and teaches. Continue reading “Welcome to the Museum Studies Digital Workspace at RIT” → Over the course of the semester, we have looked at so many different components to the exhibiting sphere, and quickly learned that everything is coming up digital.  As we have progressed through our learning and exploration of information technologies, it became quickly apparent that, while physical exhibition and collections are key, these digital tools are becoming more and more important to the exhibiting world.  As we move into this digital realm, the way that we look at objects and exhibit items is becoming easier and easier to manipulate to fit our desired aesthetics and stories we want to tell.  However, this also opens people up to being able to use digital tools to tell stories differently than one might see typically in museums exhibits.  These digital tools are opening up the world of cultural interpretation and exhibition, and this course has truly shown me how much of an impact these tools have on how we view objects and exhibits as a whole, and how easy it is to change the objects’ stories with the right tools.  I’m excited to see where these