Off the top of my head, in addition to NYPL, I would look at University of British Columbia’s Open Collections site
https://open.library.ubc.ca/ See this release announcement from Paul Joseph about features & APIs: https://www.mail-archive.com/code4lib@listserv.nd.edu/msg28980.html the World Digital Library https://www.wdl.org/en/ see also the APIs page: http://api.wdl.org/ Both of these sites strike me as exemplary for putting as much thought into the APIs as they do their front ends. And both support IIIF, the International Image Interoperability Framework<http://iiif.io> and its APIs. If you are serving digital collections, please (PLEASE!) consider also supporting IIIF’s 2.x APIs. You might also be interested in Blacklight<http://projectblacklight.org/>, and its digital collections / exhibits plug-in Spotlight<http://spotlight.projectblacklight.org/>. Blacklight is open source, responsive, and can include a number of add ons / APIs, like <https://github.com/projectblacklight/blacklight/wiki/Blacklight-Add-ons> OAI-PMH<https://github.com/cbeer/blacklight_oai_provider>, SiteMaps, oEmbed, and Map views. It has hundreds of instances worldwide, and is used for a variety of purposes, including catalogs, digital repository front-ends, presentation of digital collections, and a front-end to Hydra<https://github.com/projectblacklight/blacklight/wiki/Examples>. Spotlight is an extension of Blacklight, and provides curators and collection managers with a self-service UI for building a digital collection showcase. It adds context, order, narrative and customizable search, facets and display fields to a digital collection site through a WYSIWG UI. Some Spotlight sites can be found at Stanford’s exhibits page: https://exhibits.stanford.edu/ I look forward to seeing UNT’s new Texas Portal; they do good work. (No pressure, Mark :) - Tom On Feb 27, 2016, at 1:26 PM, Matt Sherman <matt.r.sher...@gmail.com<mailto:matt.r.sher...@gmail.com>> wrote: Hi all, I am asking about interesting digital collection tech due to some personal research I am doing. I have looked a bunch of digital collection sites lately and outside of NYPL <http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/>, I have mostly seen bland, non-responsive but functional CONTENTdm sites or old late 90s early 2000s static HTML exhibit sites. Given the kind of web tools and UX methods we have now I am curious if people can point me to, or tell me about, more interesting user friendly designs/systems? I see talk of responsive design and data interoperability via OAI-PMH and APIs, but I must be looking in the wrong places as I am seeing very little evidence of it being put into action. If anyone can point me to more interesting pastures I would appreciate it. Matt Sherman
