Collection Principles
I found this collection The Romance of Orchid Discovery: The John Day Scrapbooks through National Science Digital Library. John Day painted hundreds of exquisite watercolors of the newly discovered orchids that were entrancing Victorian Society. As a result of his passionate work, a stunning archive of orchid illustrations have been formed, 280 out of which have been selected for reproduction in a superb book, “A Very Victorian Passion: The Orchid Paintings of John Day”.
Metadata
Metadata in this amazing collection is created to be name, date, distribution and scrapbook for which the painting was drawn. A brief description for each painting has been provided. The location of a particular kind of orchid is also placed along each image; however, there is no search function for this site. It’s a very typical informational website.
Object Characteristics
All the images are organized in a gallery view style, which encompasses four sets of paintings from Tropical America, Tropical Asia, Europe and Afro-Madagascar and John Day’s Orchids. Ten images are placed on each page in one set. Two small triangles allow users to click through each gallery page. On the page of each painting, a view large image function was incorporated. The “Back to gallery” and “home” links act as navigation tools for this site. The homepage of this collection also include the knowledge of the romance of orchid discovery and modern day orchid research, the link to the exhibition in the Kew Gardens Gallery, and a link to buy the book.
Intended Audience
Since collection is hosted by Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, the intended audience seems to be the visitors to Royal Botanic Gardens, or botanists who are doing research on orchid, or readers of the book “A Very Victorian Passion: The Orchid Paintings of John Day” as well as someone who would like to browse the online exhibitions just like myself.
I found this collection The Romance of Orchid Discovery: The John Day Scrapbooks through National Science Digital Library. John Day painted hundreds of exquisite watercolors of the newly discovered orchids that were entrancing Victorian Society. As a result of his passionate work, a stunning archive of orchid illustrations have been formed, 280 out of which have been selected for reproduction in a superb book, “A Very Victorian Passion: The Orchid Paintings of John Day”.
Metadata
Metadata in this amazing collection is created to be name, date, distribution and scrapbook for which the painting was drawn. A brief description for each painting has been provided. The location of a particular kind of orchid is also placed along each image; however, there is no search function for this site. It’s a very typical informational website.
Object Characteristics
All the images are organized in a gallery view style, which encompasses four sets of paintings from Tropical America, Tropical Asia, Europe and Afro-Madagascar and John Day’s Orchids. Ten images are placed on each page in one set. Two small triangles allow users to click through each gallery page. On the page of each painting, a view large image function was incorporated. The “Back to gallery” and “home” links act as navigation tools for this site. The homepage of this collection also include the knowledge of the romance of orchid discovery and modern day orchid research, the link to the exhibition in the Kew Gardens Gallery, and a link to buy the book.
Intended Audience
Since collection is hosted by Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, the intended audience seems to be the visitors to Royal Botanic Gardens, or botanists who are doing research on orchid, or readers of the book “A Very Victorian Passion: The Orchid Paintings of John Day” as well as someone who would like to browse the online exhibitions just like myself.
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