Interactive Engagement Experiences: Next Level Open Access for Collections

This session will discuss the Music Row Experience Project (MREP) which is creating new user experiences via open source software. Funded by the National Archives, MREP seeks to increase collections engagement by connecting repositories to game-like app and web-based interactive experiences. This session will discuss how we can improve current digital information access and delivery methods, and reward user engagement similar to social media and alert responses from video games. The session will cover the open source software the project is using and user interface development. By making the collections' content portable and social, and by creating an interactive, game-like environment, MREP will deliver content to people where they are, in a setting where they frequently spend time. Individuals across generations are interacting with digital devices and content. This session will discuss how we can transition from relying on traditional research methods and repositories, to delivering users access to the content in the spaces they prefer.