The British Museum is making its entire collection
available on the web with one of the world's biggestmuseum online collection
databases.
Records for around 260,000 objects will be available by the end
of 2009. These will contain curatorial research and cataloguing
information, and there will also be 110,000 images that viewers can
"super-zoom" in on.
The newly launched Museum website also has a new, fully
integrated online shop, and now covers all aspects of the museum's
activities.
Venda provided the
technology for the "super-zoom" tool, and also provide the
e-commerce system. Vialtus Solutions provided web hosting for the
site and the collections database, and Immediacy provided the
content management system used to power the website. Cogapp
provided the web site design and information architecture.