Vlado: see Search Tools:
- Exhibit: allows several important views: faceted (result filtering), timeline, geographical, tabular
- eCulture/Europeana: several interesting metaphors
Current BM View
New BM Search
Wireframe (mockup)
Finnish Museum
Finnish Museum: Browse using facets
Freebase
Freebase: semantic search, dropdown options clarify search term, snippet description pull out is excellent
V & A
V&A: faceted search, advanced search, image & display methods - thumbnail / listing
National Maritime Museum
National Maritime Museum: faceted search, lots of options to refine search, display methods
Rijksmuseum
Rijksmuseum search with sectional dropdown, combined full site search, faceted search
Semantic Museum
SemanticMuseum is a prototype by Prescient Software (founded Jan 2010).
PHP and JS. Nice demo site with faceted search and semantic links, nice movie.
Polish National Digital Museum
Polish National Digital Museum aggregates collections from 70 contributing institutions and has 681 thousand objects. Uses RDF, CIDOC CRM, and Europeana-relevant vocabularies. Uses OWLIM as RDF repository
