An Integrated Environment for Cataloguing and Online Presentation of Museum Exhibits (original) (raw)

Openly Available Resource for the Management and Promotion of Museum Exhibits

International Journal of Computational Methods in Heritage Science

This article describes ongoing work on the design of an online application to support standardized classification of collections of folk exhibits and contribute to the collections' management and promotion. The rationale behind this is the normalization of comparable and multilingual controlled terminologies and their parallelization with recognized schemata. The approach relies on the identification of the real needs of Greek museums, as depicted in the organization of their collections and the identification and exploitation of the terminological apparatus provided by the Greek language that expresses widely held conceptualizations serving museums as handy organization pathways. Results will contribute to the issue of openly available online resources by freely offering the collection (circa 600 terms) to interested parties and to the general public. From this point of view, the emphasis is mainly on term disambiguation and classification. The proposed application aspires to s...

Museum-on-Demand: Dynamic Management Of Ressources

Given the problem of building virtual museums, this paper discusses the tasks of retrieving, assembling and presenting hypertext/hypermedia resources trying to surpass the limitations imposed by the World Wide Web. A virtual museum construction approach is presented, in which a comprehensive database and a complex system are required to perform such tasks in order to propose information and layouts tailored to the visitors' needs, make easier the museum's content maintenance and avoid data duplications.

The Use of an Information Brokering Tool in an Electronic Museum Environment

2003

Abstract: When art and technology meet, a huge information flow has to be managed. The LISTEN project conducted by the Fraunhofer Institut in St. Augustin (Germany) augments every day environments with audio information. In order to distribute and administer this information in an efficient way, the Institute decided to employ an information brokering tool for the management of information items. The generation of user profiles and the personalized presentation of information are possible by this means. This paper depicts ...

Towards a unified cultural and educational portal prototype for museums and exhibitions

Technological innovations have rapidly increased over the recent years as well as e-learning usage and thus museums have increased e-learning investment in order to adapt their services in a better and more efficient way for their visitors. While museums offer a diverse range of personal digital collections systems on their websites it seems likely that a small but important core of visitors find such facilities extremely worthwhile [1]. The majority of online museum visitors understand the role of the website in encouraging this relationship, and are interested in developing a complementary relationship with the museums and museum websites they visit [2]. The purpose of this paper is to present a portal prototype, which combines educational applications, blog, advanced search options, a forum and social integration and can be adapted to various museums as an integrated solution in favor of online visitors.

The development of an e-museum for contemporary arts

Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia, 2008

ABSTRACT: Τhe increasing development of interactive techniques and new information technologies' software and hardware and the decreasing of their costs have facilitated their use by a wide range of cultural institutions, such as museums. These new technologies also provided solutions for the lack of exhibition space, considerable exhibitions' costs and the fragility of some artifacts whose possible damage museum curators want to prevent. The value of these new tools and formats have been recognized and fruitfully exploited by ...

A Design and Implementation of Museum Multimedia Information System

Journal of Information Science and Engineering - JISE, 1999

A museum multimedia information system is designed not only for entertainment, but also for education and research. Within the system, a huge number of intellectual assets is stored in a multitimedia database. Users can query the multimedia database and retrieve information matching the specified conditions. In this paper, we successfully apply the EER (Extended Entity-Relationship) model to describe the entire system. We also propose multiple retrieval functions including browsing and query, for various users to access the information in a flexible and efficient manner. Finally, a prototype system is developed based on WWW client/server systems and the object-relational DBMS UniSQL.