Describe Me is a website that asks you to write alternative text (alt-text) for images contained within Museum Victoria’s collection in order to enhance our data making it more useful for people who are blind or have low vision.
- ASP.Net Framework 4.5 (MVC4).
- RavenDb v1.0 (build 960) for persistence.
- SignalR v0.52 for client messaging.
- IMu Client for connecting to EMu (Museum Collections Management System).
- Ninject for IoC.
- HTML5, LESS, JQuery front end.
- Application pattern based on Simple CQRS by Greg Young.
The Describe Me source code has been provided for those curious in how it has been put together as there is a dependency on Museum Victoria’s particular flavour of Collection Management which supplies the data that runs the site. Please feel free to look at and re-use any parts of the code but don’t expect a self-contained project.
Developer: Michael Mason (mmason@museumvictoria.com.au) Designer: Simone Downey (nomuu)