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How can a museum community with an active online user base collaborate in fundamental computer science research to the benefit of both researchers and museum audiences?  How can the museum’s digital assets inform fundamental computer science research questions? How can the computer science research and algorithm development be translated into user tools for the museum community?

If the future is mobile, how is the museum community experiencing that future, what are their ambitions within it, and in which areas is further knowledge share required?  It was specifically to gain an insight into questions such as these that the 2010 International Museums and Mobile survey was developed.  This paper will present and analyse the responses of the 600+ museum professi