Project has now been closed down as it achieved its goal of describing the bulk of Museums Victorias collection images.

Describe Me is a website that asks you to write alternative text (alt-text) for images contained within Museums 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 v2.0 (build 2360) 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 Museums 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 Designer: Simone Downey (nomuu)