On Jan 22, 2014, at 11:16 AM, Sam Kome <[email protected]> wrote:
> How about skip the pricey touchscreen and do a Johnny Lee: > http://johnnylee.net/projects/wii/ > > I.e. use a Wii or Kinect controller to enable gesture functions on a regular > screen. It's on the to-do list I can never get to. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Andrew Gordon > Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2014 9:46 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [CODE4LIB] Digital Collections Browser Kiosk Software Options > > Hi All, > > We are looking into options for setting up a physical kiosk (touchscreen > monitor and computer) in our lobby to allow visitors to our building to > browse digital versions of some items from our collection. I see that Turning > The Pages (e.g. http://archive.nlm.nih.gov/proj/ttp/) provides a nice > solution for this but I just wanted to see if anyone else had worked with > something similar and might know of any other options (open source?) so that > we can do a little comparing and contrasting. For some reason I am thinking > there was a discussion a little while back about 3D digital collections > browsing but can't seem to locate it and don't know it if was like the above > scenario. > > I think since it's a kiosk style implementation and we are looking for > apples-to-apples comparisons, we are interested in the physical, touch-screen > turning of the page interaction rather than a browser pointed at a more > pragmatic digital collections browser, at least at this point in the > exploration. > > Thanks in advance for anyone that might have potential suggestions, > > -d > > ________________________________________ > Andrew Gordon, MSI > Systems Librarian > Center for the History of Medicine and Public Health New York Academy of > Medicine > 1216 Fifth Avenue > New York, NY, 10029 > 212.822.7324 > http://nyamcenterforhistory.org/
