Museums and the Web

An annual conference exploring the social, cultural, design, technological, economic, and organizational issues of culture, science and heritage on-line.

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Open Source and Mobile Apps: the case of Open Images

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mobile
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open source
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iphone
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layar
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drupal
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In the context of the national digitisation programme Images for the Future, The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision has designed and developed a complete technical architecture to support (mobile) location-based services for cultural heritage.

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Demonstration - show your project

Augmented Storytelling: How to Create Interesting AR Tours in the Urban Realm

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augmented reality
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mobile tours
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Storytelling in urban Realm
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layar
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smartphone
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ARtours
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The newest AR technology on your smartphone (for example: Layar) makes it possible to take your museum collection out of the digital database and reposition it on all possible locations in the urban realm. The dialogue between the virtual artifact and the real place poses new demands on our storytelling: what kind of experiences do the small screens of the deployed mobile phones offer us?

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Workshop - full or half day