museumsandtheweb.com - development

Creating low-cost digital exhibits - making the most of what you've got

digitalopps — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 13:51:04 +0000

MW2012

Keywords:

interactive

Keywords:

museum

Keywords:

digital

Keywords:

low-cost multimedia

Keywords:

digital exhibits

Keywords:

development

Abstract:

IGOR (Interactive Galleries On Request) is a content development and deployment tool that enables museums to quickly and easily create four types of digital exhibit: touchscreen interactive, multi-video player, captioned slideshow and RSS viewer.

IGOR has been created with museums firmly in mind and is designed to enable museum staff to build their own exhibits, without recourse to expensive outsourcing. It brings digital exhibits within the reach of smaller museums - and allows larger museums to create simple, compelling exhibits for a fraction of the traditional cost, thus freeing up budgets for other, bigger, digital projects.

In this briefing, Digital Opportunities Director, Ian Smith - who has nearly 20 years experience in the heritage sector - will demonstrate how museums of all sizes can use IGOR to maximise their digital impact.

And for fun, Ian will use IGOR build a simple interactive from scratch in 15 minutes!

Type:

Exhibitor Briefing - discuss your product. Confirmed Exhibitors only

Creating low-cost digital exhibits - making the most of what you've got

Site:

http://www.digitalopps.co.uk/igor/

Authors:

Ian Smith

Creating a mobile app ecosystem - the Genera project for iOS

thesherrin — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 02:26:06 +0000

MW2012

Published Paper:

Creating a Mobile App Ecosystem—The Genera Project for iOS

Keywords:

iOS

Keywords:

mobile

Keywords:

app

Keywords:

development

Keywords:

open source

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collaboration

Keywords:

apps

Keywords:

Field Guide

Keywords:

natural science

Keywords:

code

Abstract:

At the start of 2011, Australia’s Museum Victoria (MV), published a Field Guide for Victorian Animals for iOS devices: iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. The app currently contains information for approximately 650 Victorian animal species, including birds, mammals, snakes, lizards and frogs, as well as butterflies, snails, spiders and other invertebrates. Released for free, the app was downloaded over 20,000 times in its first 7 months.
In August 2011, Museum Victoria (MV) released the source code for the app under an open source license. Organisations and individuals have used the code to produce field guides for something specific as the frogs within a river catchment area, to the fauna of Papua New Guinea.
The field guide data structure and code is built for displaying information about fauna, however the presentation structure of the app is suitable for displaying information about a wide range of fields. This lead to the development of the Genera project for iOS, which, rather than requiring the data about an object to be supplied in a specific structure to fit the database, adjusts the the database based on the structure of the data supplied. This project can be used to create guides for flora, fauna, minerals or any type of object. The subject of the guide does not have to be a homogenous class of objects, but through the use of templates and identifiers can accommodate heterogenous classes (e.g. fauna and flora).
This paper discusses how the work done by other organisations and the experience of developing the field guide has lead to the development of the Genera project for iOS. Key to the project is the separation of the data, platform and presentation layers. A description of how other organisations can use the Genera platform for their own apps, and suggestions on issues to consider when developing natives app for reuse by other institutions are presented.

Type:

Paper - in formal session

Mobile strategy

Authors:

Simon Sherrin

Elycia Wallis

Functional Requirements for Membership, Development & Participation Systems

ngamble — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 18:48:29 +0000

Bearman, D. (1990). Functional Requirements for Membership, Development & Participation Systems. Archives and Museum Informatics Technical Reports. 71 pp.