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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
- The Oriental Institute: Search our collections. Sharing this as an example of public user interface for access to museum, library, and archival holdings. Some of the issues we have recently been discussing, facets, labels, breadcrumbs, etc. are also present here and they use Solr to drive this as well.
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