Browsing the archive

The vocabulary is the board's, and it applies across the whole platform:

• a Source is a resource in the database. It has no duration of its own.
• a Story is the cut of a Source within a narrative. The duration is its own.
• a Narration is the sequence of Stories that makes up a visit.

The same Source can live in many Stories, and the same Story in many Narrations.

Searching for a Source

Source lists the published resources. The search works on title and description; the filters below are the board's macro-categories — Sphere, Mission, Location, Type, Exhibit element, Audience, Tags.

The filters add up in AND: choosing Cryosphere and Sentinel-1 leaves only the resources that have both labels, not one or the other. If the result is empty, it is almost always one filter too many.

Reading a Source

The record shows the images, the acquisition details and the Energy Level 1-5, that is, how much the resource can strike the viewer. When it has not been set by hand, the level is the average of the four factors assigned by the editor: Visual Appeal, Dramatization & Scale, Relatability, Scientific Rarity.

Below there are two things that are worth more than the record:

• the Stories already written from this Source, that is, how colleagues have used it so far;
• the nearby Sources, calculated on shared labels and on how many times two resources have ended up in the same narration. It is the quickest way to find the piece a route is missing.

Reading a Narration

Narrations shows the validated narrations: those in draft or under review do not appear, and not because a page hides them — the backend simply does not send them to anyone who is not entitled to see them.

For each one you see the storyboard strip, the total duration against the target one and the pacing graph, which shows how the intensity rises and falls along the route. A flat profile is the sign that the narrative has no climax.

The Script button opens the version to be read in the room: cumulative timing, segues between one Story and the next, large text. From the same page you print the PDF — the browser produces it, so Print and then Save as PDF.