Presentation for Catholic University's Cultural Heritage Information Management Forum, 2015

1. I Want to Use Your Collections!
Sheila A. Brennan
Associate Director of Public Projects
@sherah1918

2. I built it. No one came.

3. ID Audiences
Primary Audiences for mallhistories.org
•Tourists visiting the National Mall with mobile
devices
•Hometown tourists, bringing family/friends from
out of town to the Mall
•DC Interns
•Secondary Audiences
•History enthusiasts not on the Mall
•Public historians

4. Create Personas
SI Learning Lab, http://learninglab.si.edu/

5. Design for All

6. Mobiles?

7. Symbols Matter

8. Test
Histories of the National Mall: http://mallhistories.org

9. Ask

10. Open Content
National Gallery of Art, https://images.nga.gov/

11. Infrastructure that Keeps on Giving
Cooper-Hewitt Labs: http://labs.cooperhewitt.org/

12. Collections as Data
https://github.com/cooperhewitt/collection

13. Te Papa’s Digital Principles
https://github.com/te-papa/digital-principles/blob/master/digital-
principles.md

14. APIs Don’t Have to be Hard
http://omeka.org

15. Discovery is not only about Search
Rijks Museum, https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en

16. Share for Reuse
http://mallhistory.org/items/show/383

17. Let others Build

18. Don’t do This

19. Thank you!
Sheila A. Brennan
Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
sbrennan@gmu.edu
@sherah1918
http://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/5h73tm30x