A new guide for museum guests 🗺️We're hectically prototyping 'SMK Link', @smk's upcoming browser-based guide for museum guests.
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A new guide for museum guests
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We're hectically prototyping 'SMK Link', @smk's upcoming browser-based guide for museum guests. We're trying to make relatively complicated things (I'm looking at you, wayfinding) seem extremely simple.
Here's an early sneak-peek of an artwork page. More to come soon
️If you've seen a digital museum guide somewhere that you liked, let us know!
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A new guide for museum guests
️
We're hectically prototyping 'SMK Link', @smk's upcoming browser-based guide for museum guests. We're trying to make relatively complicated things (I'm looking at you, wayfinding) seem extremely simple.
Here's an early sneak-peek of an artwork page. More to come soon️If you've seen a digital museum guide somewhere that you liked, let us know!
@jonassmith @smk What an amazing job to have. I'd love to see a guide system on a web page in every museum. Most I've been to still rely on audio tours and guidebooks.
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@jonassmith @smk What an amazing job to have. I'd love to see a guide system on a web page in every museum. Most I've been to still rely on audio tours and guidebooks.
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@jonassmith @smk That’s exactly the kind of thing I love to hear.
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A new guide for museum guests
️
We're hectically prototyping 'SMK Link', @smk's upcoming browser-based guide for museum guests. We're trying to make relatively complicated things (I'm looking at you, wayfinding) seem extremely simple.
Here's an early sneak-peek of an artwork page. More to come soon️If you've seen a digital museum guide somewhere that you liked, let us know!
@jonassmith @smk That is really cool and really user-oriented. A web-page guide instead of app - genuinely inclusive. Flot og tak!
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A new guide for museum guests
️
We're hectically prototyping 'SMK Link', @smk's upcoming browser-based guide for museum guests. We're trying to make relatively complicated things (I'm looking at you, wayfinding) seem extremely simple.
Here's an early sneak-peek of an artwork page. More to come soon️If you've seen a digital museum guide somewhere that you liked, let us know!
@jonassmith @smk I'm guessing there's an English version easily accessible from the menu (and probably German too?), but does it flip automatically to the English for the object you're looking at, or take you back to the home page? That's always infuriating for me as I may only be failing to understand a couple of words and just want reassurance.
Also, I hope humans are doing the translations!
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@jonassmith @smk That is really cool and really user-oriented. A web-page guide instead of app - genuinely inclusive. Flot og tak!
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@jonassmith @smk I'm guessing there's an English version easily accessible from the menu (and probably German too?), but does it flip automatically to the English for the object you're looking at, or take you back to the home page? That's always infuriating for me as I may only be failing to understand a couple of words and just want reassurance.
Also, I hope humans are doing the translations!
@janeishly @smk We’re defaulting to the user’s browser language (if we have it). Switching language manually will be easy - but we actually hadn’t considered back-and-forth switching - we’ll see what we can do
Switching certainly never changes the context.
English will be human translated. But other languages will be AI - although with serious human quality control, continuously updated glossaries etc. We’re still discussing exact details… -
@janeishly @smk We’re defaulting to the user’s browser language (if we have it). Switching language manually will be easy - but we actually hadn’t considered back-and-forth switching - we’ll see what we can do
Switching certainly never changes the context.
English will be human translated. But other languages will be AI - although with serious human quality control, continuously updated glossaries etc. We’re still discussing exact details…@jonassmith @smk I'm glad to hear the context will stay put, that's so infuriating when it doesn't (I am, it has to be said, a translator, and consequently I'm often researching terms in one language where it would be really handy to just flip to the page in the other language... only you have to start all over at the top of the tree).
As for the "serious human quality control", please do consider the cognitive load and poor pay conditions that choice represents for whatever luckless human is stuck with the job.
Plus, of course, the fact that you'll still end up with something that's just human-tinted slop. When you're trying to explain the very best of human creativity to interested visitors, that seems a shame, to say the least.
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@jonassmith @smk I'm glad to hear the context will stay put, that's so infuriating when it doesn't (I am, it has to be said, a translator, and consequently I'm often researching terms in one language where it would be really handy to just flip to the page in the other language... only you have to start all over at the top of the tree).
As for the "serious human quality control", please do consider the cognitive load and poor pay conditions that choice represents for whatever luckless human is stuck with the job.
Plus, of course, the fact that you'll still end up with something that's just human-tinted slop. When you're trying to explain the very best of human creativity to interested visitors, that seems a shame, to say the least.
@janeishly @smk Duly noted. And we are trying to think very carefully about this.
In practice we’ll be doing the same amount of human translation as we did pre-AI. Without AI we’d only be offering Danish and English (which is of course a choice, but one that was made consistently across decades).
We're turned off by complicated tech. We want pages in a browser entirely under the guest's control.
