Central Intelligence Agency
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is a U.S. government agency responsible for gathering intelligence and supplying it to the nation’s senior policy makers. Stories abound about the clandestine service and public access to agency accounts are limited. To bring to light the agency’s history, the CIA Museum (housed at agency headquarters) is organized to inform, instruct and inspire members of the intelligence community. Over the years as more information was declassified, the agency built an online presence for the museum to allow public access to a wealth of fascinating American history.
WebsiteAfter seeing the museum’s artifacts and hearing harrowing and touching stories about clandestine service activities, giving context to the objects was a top priority. We developed a taxonomy to relate text-based information and objects within broad categories such as world events, research and technology, and artifact purpose (e.g. aviation, escape and evasion, clothing). Users access content based on his/her preference: Click on an object’s photo; read a mission’s detailed story; search a timeline of world events. Each object is assigned multiple tags and linked to additional resources such as book titles and videos. The site employs responsive design so that all content is available in a mobile environment.
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