The SDS Paxton solution is an exciting suite of web tools which create and showcase virtual exhibitions and significant anniversary interactive websites. Bespoke Designed (no square pegs through rounds holes!)
Online Digital Exhibition feature with QR code technology...
SDS Paxton will enable you to select a number of items and create a virtual exhibition. Users will be able to zoom in and around selected archives and read further information. QR technology is also included, which enables you tie up with any physical exhibition or display you create. By simply scanning the QR code users placed next to the real exhibit, they will be taken directly to the item online to read more about it, and get a closer examination by way of a zoom feature.
- Easy curation – Objects, events, archive material, oral histories can all be added to the system with ease
- Discovery Rooms for secondary resource/exhibit research
- Dynamic and ever learning – the virtual exhibition continually learns about the visitor experience
- The virtual website can continue long after a physical exhibition has been retired.
- Capture audience and visitors who are unable to attend the exhibition personally
- SSO links to the archives
- Crowd source tool
- Seamless integration with:
- SDS Mercator (Interactive Maps)
- SDS Priestley (Interactive Timelines)
- SDS Mercury (Interactive Blog and social media harvest centre)
- SDS Asset Recorder (SDS archive manager)
- SDS Showcase (the entire archives)
— a turnkey solution from SDS
Peruse the items
The index contains an interactive gallery where you can swipe left or right to explore the items in a collection. Or simply flip through all the collections within the exhibition and show them all at-a-glance.
In the Detail
Each collection has its own story, with links to exhibits both within, and in other collections making it easy to make cross-references. User can also browse the collection as thumbnails here.
Examine Closely
Hide the story bar to see the exhibit in full-screen. You can zoom in and see detail and pan the image around the screen. Exhibits can be captioned and even contain hotspots for pop-up information on various details.
Case Study
St Edward's School
Working with SDS Heritage was a really positive experience. Alison understood the requests of each of the artists working towards this exhibition and incorporated their work and personal biographies into a digital gallery with individual QR codes. The SDS Paxton solution incorporated all artists' feedback that enhanced the quality of the images online for smart phone experiences of the exhibition. Alison's enthusiastic and sensitive approach to the needs of the Art Department at St. Edward's made it easy and time efficient for us to incorporate the SDS Paxton exhibition tool, and certainly added a new and innovative element of our exhibition.
Adam Hahn, Head of Art
St Edward's School, Oxford
The full sofware suite of modules
Complementary software modules that combine to form the complete solution to showcasing your school's rich archives...
SDS Mercury
SDS Mercury is an online resource to capture and provide a unique digital heritage experience from the alumni time at school. Dynamic creation of a contemporary media wall: record posts, blogs, video, audio, social media feeds, historic archives – a live system which evolves with each and every post or upload...
SDS Mercator
With SDS Mercator you can display your heritage archive as an interactive map or globe, linking people, events and ephemera to locations around the world.
SDS Priestley
SDS Priestley is our interactive timeline module. Curates all your material into one easy-to-navigate linear timeline. Show the evolution of your school’s history and its many interesting artefacts in this enjoyable, educational tool.
SDS Paxton
Our online virtual museum and exhibition system can be seamlessly combined with any or all of these modules.
Enquiries...?
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