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Video Licensing Shockers
You’ve worked on a few exhibitions, doing image rights licensing. They went fine. You’re feeling good. Your next project will license video footage as well. But hey, video licensing must be similar to photo licensing, right? Uh. No. …
L.A.T.C.H. Challenge
Richard Saul Wurman, co-founder of TED, popularized the idea of L.A.T.C.H. in the 90s. Can you come up with a way to organize information that does NOT fall into one of Wurman’s five L.A.T.C.H. methods? …
Encyclopedic, or Encyclopedia?
An encyclopedic museum displays every subject in a field. And there are also encyclopedic exhibitions, which display every object in a category. And then there is the third cousin of this family: the encyclopedia exhibition (note the one-letter difference). …
Scholars Hate Repetition, But Visitors Need It
Keepers of important collections and facts want to show as many as possible to the public. Which means never repeating things. But you can repeat a digital image, a word, or an idea as often as you like. Why would you? Because visitors need it. …