{"id":136,"date":"2004-01-20T21:43:23","date_gmt":"2004-01-20T11:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/?p=136"},"modified":"2006-01-28T01:57:07","modified_gmt":"2006-01-27T15:57:07","slug":"british-library-virtual-exhibitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/?p=136","title":{"rendered":"British Library: Virtual exhibitions"},"content":{"rendered":"

This morning, my partner Sharon<\/a> pointed me to a new site from the British Library devoted to virtual exhibitions<\/a>. The site has some lovely use of flash – tastefully restrained – which livens up the presentation enormously. <\/p>\n

I particularly enjoyed the `literary landscapes’ section which marries literary figures with maps and images providing a context for their writing. Having visited Loch Katrine in Scotland (and taken the steam boat ride along its length), I liked the section on Sir Walter Scott despite his highly romanticised view of scotland portrayed in his writings, and the accompanying hand-coloured engraving by FJ Sargent from 1811. The web version has handy navigation icons and a zoom function – which works well on the high resolution images. There are maps too, providing a rich backdrop to a number of Scott’s novels. <\/p>\n

Also included are Chaucer’s Kent, Wordsworth’s Lake District, Thomas Hardy’s Dorset, Jane Austen’s Bath (the place, not the ablution), and Defoe’s Moll Flanders.<\/p>\n

I had a good poke (okay click) around in the Durham exhibition<\/a> too – I loved the section on Jarrow Priory.<\/p>\n

There is also a great ‘about Collect Britain’ page<\/a> which talks about the digitisation project and the designers.<\/p>\n

All in all a good site, well designed and informative – well worth a visit!<\/p>\n

Cheers
\nJerry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This morning, my partner Sharon pointed me to a new site from the British Library devoted to virtual exhibitions. The site has some lovely use of flash – tastefully restrained – which livens up the presentation enormously. I particularly enjoyed the `literary landscapes’ section which marries literary figures with maps and images providing a context […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-journal","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}