Integrating physical and digital collections for a hybrid visitor experience
For the Royal Botanic Garden of Edinburgh
DATA ANALYSIS | DATA VISUALIZATION | INTERDISCIPLINARY COLLABORATION | USER INTERFACE DESIGN
Physical Interface: a plant model that can be scanned with a mobile device to view the plant's webpage of related collection items
Digital Interface: mobile website homepage
Digital Interface: visually browsing plants by their taxonomic classification
Digital Interface: centralizing items about a plant from several collections at the Garden
Digital Interface: data visualization of a plant's taxonomic classification
A hybrid artifact that bridges the gap between digital and physical collections at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Visitors primarily experience the Garden physically, walking along its outdoor paths. Researchers often experience the Garden digitally, browsing its living and preserved plants in online databases. A hybrid botanical artifact integrates these two experiences.
View the interactive mobile prototype.
Created with Python, Adobe XD, crepe paper, wire, glue, GBIF data, and collection items from the Royal Botanic Garden's Herbarium, Library and Archive, and Living Collection
