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Online Publishing and Website Design
The Internet and the World Wide Web present new and exciting educational and research options in the visual arts. Through online publishing of collections with related information it is becoming possible to have everything known about a particular work of art at one's fingertips. It is also now possible to view works in detail at resolutions never available in print.
  Using Gallery System's EmbARK Web Kiosk software in conjunction with EmbARK Cataloguing software, MCACM can design a virtual catalogue raisonné of your collection. If you imagine the typical printed catalogue raisonné, it is easy to see the advantages of an online version. Where exhibition histories and related publications are most often abbreviated and referenced to pages in the back of the book, the web page can accommodate the full information, even offering links to exhibition views and abstracts or excerpts. Information can easily be changed as it becomes known, alleviating the need for addendums or new editions. Sophisticated search features make locating images or groups of images, exhibitions, authors, etc. not only possible, but user friendly. And with the zoomable feature, images can now be viewed at actual size or even larger.
The EmbARK Web Kiosk is highly customizable: you decide which records from your database are shown on your site as well as which fields from those records. And the high-resolution zoomable images cannot be downloaded, adding security to prevent unauthorized copying and reproduction.
WIth over 10 years of website design experience MCACM can also design complete art-related websites with or without the online collection publishing features. Below you will find links to a number of recently designed (or proposed) websites which, although not specifically related to art collections, will give you an idea of the range of design approaches and solutions that are possible with MCACM.
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