http://nttreasurehunt.wordpress.com/2012/04/12/james-in-the-spotlight/ National Trust Acquisitions Wed, 22 May 2013 17:01:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://nttreasurehunt.wordpress.com/2012/04/12/james-in-the-spotlight/#comment-4298 Thu, 19 Apr 2012 13:26:41 +0000 http://nttreasurehunt.wordpress.com/?p=4935#comment-4298 This is off topic, but I was watching the series “Servants” the other day, and I noted that the house used was Dyrham Park. I’m pretty sure that “Lady Caroline Lamb” with Sarah Myles was also filmed there, but only from a distant memory; the house just seemed so very familiar. Do you know?

]]> http://nttreasurehunt.wordpress.com/2012/04/12/james-in-the-spotlight/#comment-4272 Thu, 12 Apr 2012 21:23:06 +0000 http://nttreasurehunt.wordpress.com/?p=4935#comment-4272 Yes, image recognition technology, perhaps, which apparently is developing fast – so that you could aim your smartphone at the painting, it would ‘read’ and recognise the image, link to the National Trust Collections database and retrieve the relevant information – an ideal mixture of low intervention and high technology, and probably coming to a museum near us sooner than we think

]]> http://nttreasurehunt.wordpress.com/2012/04/12/james-in-the-spotlight/#comment-4269 Thu, 12 Apr 2012 18:13:52 +0000 http://nttreasurehunt.wordpress.com/?p=4935#comment-4269 It is an interesting conundrum. Maybe, eventually, with technology becoming more and more ‘invisible’ there will be new options — other ways to preserve the domestic atmosphere yet offer interactive features, too.

]]> http://nttreasurehunt.wordpress.com/2012/04/12/james-in-the-spotlight/#comment-4268 Thu, 12 Apr 2012 16:21:44 +0000 http://nttreasurehunt.wordpress.com/?p=4935#comment-4268 It isn’t, in fact – most of our paintings don’t have labels at all (apart from the traditional labels or inscriptions on the frames), because the historic houses of the National Trust are mostly displayed as domestic interiors rather than as ‘museums’ (although they are effectively museums, of course, and many of them are officially accredited as such). If a particular room has pictures then there tends to be a physical list available that visitors can consult there if they want to know more. It is one of those interesting conundrums: how to balance ‘atmosphere’ with ‘information’ But colleagues are experimenting with QR codes to see where they might be used effectively, such as with this painting, but also out of doors.

]]> http://nttreasurehunt.wordpress.com/2012/04/12/james-in-the-spotlight/#comment-4267 Thu, 12 Apr 2012 16:10:05 +0000 http://nttreasurehunt.wordpress.com/?p=4935#comment-4267 Emile, is it fairly common now for NT collection objects to have their own QR codes?

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