Digital projects
The use of computers to store and present historical material is central to our activities. Besides our website work, we currently have a number of different digital projects under development.
Conveyor
The Conveyor system provides a simple to use multimedia authoring template designed to enable museum staff without computer programming knowhow to create touch-screen multimedia for in-gallery use.
The system was designed originally for proof-of-concept purposes but proved so popular that in less then three years it's had gone from being a UK only 'test' product to one with real European and Asian users (with versions in languages as diverse as Flemish and Mandarin)! The system is now the subject on ongoing development with a two year initiative started in late-2006 aiming to improve the software and enable its use on the world wide web. Developments during this initiative will be posted here in due course. The screenshot above illustrates the current Conveyor authoring environment.
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The 'Time Machine' Study Centre
Long delayed by lack of funding, we still have plans to develop a 'digital' Study Centre, located within the basement of The Regency Town House. This will hold an archive of textual and image-based records about Georgian and Victorian Brighton including information drawn from street directories, census returns, club membership records, wills, deeds, and newspapers together with images from sketch books and topographical views of the towns in the pre-photographic age.
Completion of the Centre is still at least several years away but in the meantime we aim to offer access to at least a small part of the overall resource via the Online Archive section of our web site.