Hi Chris I don't know about getting rights for cropped images, it sounds like hell on a stick to me, and I'd imagine best to avoid this if you can...
Clicking to get full image, well yes, but I'd have thought the obvious call to action / click on an exhibition listing page image would be to link through to whatever the feature was about rather than to view the image? But a separate link to a lightbox overlay would seem a good idea - example http://americanmuseum.org/object/the-race/ We're finding a "Masonry" style approach to be pretty useful (specifically for object images - but may work here too) for displaying listings with varying aspect ratios on the module images. This enables us to fix a width but vary height - example here: http://swcollectionsexplorer.org.uk/browse-collections/. This also works for non-object stuff - here's an example with infinite scroll: https://handelhendrix.org. (FYI, both sites are WordPress - obviously under the hood WP is doing auto-cropping for each upload, but crops can be amended manually as required.) One of several "masonry" libraries is here: http://masonry.desandro.com/ cheers Mike _____________ Mike Ellis Thirty8 Digital: a small but perfectly formed digital agency http://thirty8.co.uk ** NEW: http://wpformuseums.com for people using WordPress in museums ** ** Workshops, courses and free downloads: http://trainingdigital.co.uk ** On Mon, 12 Dec 2016 at 16:15 Chris Alexander <cma...@stanford.edu> wrote: Hello all We're currently redesigning our website and a question came up. I'm hoping to cull some information from the museum community about how other museums handle the same situation. On our exhibition page the redesign relies heavily on landscape image similar to this - where text floats to the left of a landscape image then switches on the next exhibit listing. ------------ ••••••••••• ----text---- • Image • ------------ ••••••••••• ••••••••••• ------------ • Image • ----text---- ••••••••••• ------------ ------------ ••••••••••• ----text---- • Image • ------------ ••••••••••• The design requires the images to all be the same size for it to look it's best, meaning they would be cropped in a lot of cases. We came across a lot of museum sites with similar requirements during our discovery phase. My question is - how are museums handling this? Do you secure rights for cropping artwork? How difficult has it been if so? Are museums offering a full image view on click of the cropped image? Are there museums throwing caution to the wind? Very interested in hearing from you all! Best regards, Chris Alexander Digital Media Manager Cantor Arts Center Stanford University 328 Lomita Drive<x-apple-data-detectors://0/1> Stanford, CA 94305-5060<x-apple-data-detectors://0/1> 650.723.6114<tel:650.723.6114> | cma...@stanford.edu <mailto: cma...@stanford.edu> <http://museum.stanford.edu/>http://museum.stanford.edu< http://museum.stanford.edu/> <http://cantorcollections.stanford.edu/> http://cantorcollections.stanford.edu<http://cantorcollections.stanford.edu/ > _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer Network (http://www.mcn.edu) To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l@mcn.edu To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: http://mcn.edu/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l The MCN-L archives can be found at: http://www.mail-archive.com/mcn-l@mcn.edu/ -- _____________________________ Mike Ellis Thirty8 Digital: a small but perfectly formed digital agency: http:// <http://thirty8.co.uk>thirty8.co.uk * My book: http:// <http://heritageweb.co.uk>heritageweb.co.uk * * New: Workshops, courses and free downloads: http:// <http://trainingdigital.co.uk/>trainingdigital.co.uk/ <http://trainingdigital.co.uk/> *
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