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- Librarything shows a great example of discovery of materials (in this case books) through authors. The authors names are not regularized which bothers me but I think ASpace could leverage this functionality with the "names". https://www.librarything.com/author/rowlingjk
- BBC programmes uses linked data and has a slick search interface. I like the use of the word "categories" instead of "classification" in other words they limit the jargon. It's very visual to the point of being a bit busy but I think some degree of using images is important with so much visual media in archives. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes Look at the examples below the search bar to get a full idea of the capability for showing dates, etc.
- Princeton and BYU finding aid sites provide different approaches to component-level displays with contextual browsing, allowing users to directly access component descriptions while still being able to see what materials surround a particular folder or item in a collection. http://findingaids.princeton.edu and http://findingaid.lib.byu.edu
- NYPL: As far as the single-scroll view of finding aids go (here's an example: http://archives.nypl.org/mss/22833#detailed), I think they have one of the best. They also have a great landing page: http://archives.nypl.org/ (and a whole host of other things like to like, including the URL structures, the fact that the collection's arrangement is always clearly visible). I also like that searching returns collection names first, and then, under each collection, indicates how many matches for a search term were found in that collection, which a user can then choose to view at the component level.
- Rockefeller Archive Center: http://dimes.rockarch.org/xtf/search Great implementation of the XTF bookbag feature. Also note that they provide a lot of useful information to researchers, like access restrictions notes, directly in the search result screens.
- Archives Portal Europe: https://www.archivesportaleurope.net/. The scale alone is impressive. Also note the lazy-loading context trees.
- Princeton Theological Seminary: I like the data visualization touches that they've added by doing entity recognition on the narratives in the description. Here's an example: http://manuscripts.ptsem.edu/collection/32 Also, they have a nice way to view by locations, http://manuscripts.ptsem.edu/?map=true, and searching works well (including highlighted text, etc.).
- UMichigan's Bentley Image Bank (e.g. http://quod.lib.umich.edu/b/bhl/x-bl001009/bl001009) has simple sharing and citation options at the top of the screen, and also provides the ability to smoothly zoom in on digital objects.
- University of North Texas: A great digital library, in general. I also really like their use of stats (extracted from G.A.) throughout the application. Examples: http://digital.library.unt.edu/stats/, http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc13/stats/
- WebGL in general: Some cool stuff here, for example, http://acko.net/blog/on-webgl/. I often wonder if the context tree view is the best/only way to let users navigate a collection... and I also think it would be an interesting experiment to have an interface that allows a researcher to browse the archival stacks.
- Museum Victoria: http://collections.museumvictoria.com.au/ I like how the home page uses a cross between info graphics and images. Under articles - these very much like "finding aids" and they just look awesome - Very usable. I like that the citation is right up front. And here's the code link on github https://github.com/museumvictoria/collections-online
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