What’s On TAP? – Strategies for keeping pace with rapid changes in mobile technology

cmoad — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 06:06:49 +0000

MW2012

Charles Moad and Rob Stein, Indianapolis Museum of Art, United States

http://www.tapintomuseums.org/

Abstract

In 2011, the New York Times published an article that reinforces what many museums are feeling as they scramble to keep pace with changes in technology. Entitled, “Software Progress Beats Moore’s Law”, the article cites a White House advisory report detailing the changes in hardware and software innovation in the past 15 years. The report notes that while the rate of change in hardware innovation is staggering, changes in software have vastly outpace even those impressive numbers.

Program Item Reference:

What’s On TAP? – Strategies for keeping pace with rapid changes in mobile technology

TourML: An Emerging Standard for Museum Mobile Experiences

rjstein — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 20:22:09 +0000

MW2011

Published Paper:

TourML: An Emerging Specification for Museum Mobile Experiences

Keywords:

standards

Keywords:

metadata

Keywords:

collaboration

Keywords:

preservation

Keywords:

mobile tours

Keywords:

tourml

Abstract:

The recent explosion of options used by museums to produce mobile experiences is undeniable. In the last 18 months, dozens of new mobile platforms have entered the marketplace as museums are planning, producing, and launching new experiences for visitors on their mobile devices. Besides launching a successful tour, how can museum professionals ensure that the content we create will outlive the technology and vendors we select today?

A successful metadata standard for mobile tours would provide a number of advantages for museums. A mobile standard will allow museums to migrate the content and structure of a tour between the variety of tools available today and tools that may be available in the future. Similarly, a mobile standard would allow the same tour to be used on a number of current and future mobile devices. In addition, museums could choose authoring tools which best fit their staff and workflow needs while still deploying to whatever mobile device is best for their content - even if these tools are provided by different vendors. Perhaps most importantly, a successful mobile standard would ensure that museum content will outlive any particular technology we use today.

The TourML (tûrmoil) specification (http://wiki.museummobile.info/museums-to-go/products-services/tourml) offers a working – but preliminary – example of how such a standard might work. In order to develop a community consensus and to encourage support by commercial vendors, two collaborative mobile summits were held in the fall of 2010. The first occurred in London following the Tate Handheld conference in September (http://wiki.museummobile.info/archives/11005), and a second in Austin, TX during the Museum Computer Network conference in October (http://wiki.museummobile.info/archives/19948). In both meetings a diverse set of participants were gathered including museum professionals, vendors, and academics to review and collaborate together on a set of common semantics and structured descriptions used to author a specification for mobile experiences.

In this Mini-Workshop, the facilitators will review the current state of the TourML draft standard and host a discussion regarding outstanding issues for data modeling and implementation including, but not limited to:

Linking to object collections using existing metadata standards
Ways to use the TourML schema to encode and represent a variety of common tour elements
Design discussions regarding the XMLSchema definitions of the TourML specification
Validation methods for ensuring that instances of a tour are compliant to the standard
Possibilities for integrating mobile tours with mobile web CMS’s

Type:

Mini-Workshop - teaches something or explores approaches

Mini-Workshop on TourML

Site:

http://wiki.museummobile.info/standards

Authors:

Robert Stein

Nancy Proctor

ISO Standards for Museum Imaging_CDI_v1.0

archimuse — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 05:00:00 +0000

Geffert, S., & Center for Digital Imaging I. (2001). ISO Standards for Museum Imaging_CDI_v1.0.

One common Database System for 150 Small Social History Museums

jtrant — Thu, 31 May 2007 02:15:22 +0000

Vestbstad, P., & Ore E. S. (1995). One common Database System for 150 Small Social History Museums. (David Bearman, Ed.).Hands On: Hypermedia & Interactivity in Museums: Selected Papers from the Third International Conference on Hypermedia and Interactivity in Museums: Volume 2 (ICHIM 95 / MCN 95).

museumsandtheweb.com - standards

What’s On TAP? – Strategies for keeping pace with rapid changes in mobile technology

Charles Moad and Rob Stein, Indianapolis Museum of Art, United States

Abstract

TourML: An Emerging Standard for Museum Mobile Experiences

ISO Standards for Museum Imaging_CDI_v1.0

One common Database System for 150 Small Social History Museums