Capturing content for virtual museums

Hemminger, Bradley M.; Bolas, Gerald; Carr, David; Jones, Paul M.; Schiff, Doug; England, Nick

doi:10.1145/996350.996445

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“…Virtual museums "allow the user to experience the content of the museum virtually, i.e., in a place or time physically separate from the museum…by digitizing the content of the museum." This will allow the user "to view or study any part of the museum content at any time, from any place [12]. The Virtual Museum of Canada (www.virtualmuseum.ca) and the Online Archive of California (www.oac.cdlib.org) can be given as examples of virtual museums offering hundreds of thousands of images and interactive games, and hosting virtual exhibitions.…”

Section: Museums In the Flat Worldmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Hemminger, Bolas and Schiff [12] developed a methodology to capture "a record of an exhibit for archival purposes and for communication between curators, and for the design of virtual (never physically implemented) exhibits and pieces based on actual pieces and settings". Digitization of the exhibition is one way to do that.…”

Section: Museums In the Flat Worldmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Think of a sculpture, say, Michelangelo's David. Digitizing its 3D representation takes about 500GB storage space and requires special software to view [12]. Supposing that all the copyright and distribution issues are resolved, it is currently difficult with limited bandwidth to deposit its digital copy and make it available over the network.…”

Section: Museums In the Flat Worldmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Alexa crawlers take snapshots of the Web regularly (daily for the popular Web content, every 2 months for a broad cross-section of the Web), each crawl consisting of 1.6 Terabytes of Web content spanning 4.5 billion pages from over 16 million sites. 12 Alexa crawlers also record data regularly on the infamous "404 not found" pages, and it appears that terabytes of digital information get lost continuously [19].…”

Section: "Born Digital"mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Libraries and museums in the flat world: Are they becoming virtual destinations?

Tonta

2008

Library Collections, Acquisitions, and Technical Services

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In his recent book, "The World is Flat", Thomas L. Friedman reviews the impact of networks on globalization. The emergence of the Internet, web browsers, computer applications talking to each other through the Internet, and the open source software, among others, made the world flatter and created an opportunity for individuals to collaborate and compete globally. Friedman predicts that "connecting all the knowledge centers on the planet together into a single global network… could usher in an amazing era of prosperity and innovation". Networking also is changing the ways by which libraries and museums provide access to information sources and services. In the flat world, libraries and museums are no longer a physical "place" only: they are becoming "virtual destinations". This paper discusses the implications of this transformation for the digitization and preservation of, and access to, cultural heritage resources.

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Section: Museums In the Flat Worldmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Museums In the Flat Worldmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Museums In the Flat Worldmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: "Born Digital"mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Libraries and museums in the flat world: Are they becoming virtual destinations?

Tonta

2008

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“…Such programs aim to preserve cultural heritage and collections; popularize fine cultural landmarks; encourage information/knowledge sharing; invigorating cultural content and value‐added services, and improve literacy, creativity and quality of life. They are considered as the prerequisite and foundation for developing digital museums from which a museum's conventional functions in academic research, exhibition, education, and entertainment can be extended and developed through information technologies (MacDonald, 2000; Alonzo, 2001; Chen, 2003; Shindo et al , 2003; Hemminger, 2004; Mei, 2004).…”

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Unified knowledge‐based content management for digital archives in museums

Hsu

Yang

2006

The Electronic Library

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PurposeThis paper sets out to present a new model to avoid the content silo trap, satisfy the knowledge management requirement and support the long‐term perspective of developing academic, exhibition, and education applications among various domains for museums.Design/methodology/approachThis paper presents a unified knowledge‐based content management (UKCM) model, which comprises the unified knowledge content processes, multi‐layer reusable knowledge content structures and an integrated knowledge‐based content management system to solve the content silo trap problem. The extended entity‐relationship (EER) conceptual model is applied to design a global view of the integrated knowledge system and completely represent multi‐layer reusable knowledge content structures for the spectrum of various knowledge assets for all domains and applications in a museum.FindingsA practical case of a large‐scale digital archives project that includes various domains of a natural science museum has been successfully implemented to demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed model.Originality/valueThis paper integrates content management and knowledge management. Digital archives programs in museums can apply the model presented in this study to satisfy the knowledge management requirement and support the long‐term perspective of developing academic, exhibition, and education applications among various domains.

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Structuring the Social Subsystem Components of the Community Based E-Museum Framework

Razali

Noor

Adnan

2009

Online Communities and Social Computing

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The use of social spaces design in social computing has created an economic value in the preservation of cultural heritage. This movement has now motivated the museum community to provide a systematic establishment to support the digital cultural heritage preservation through e-museum. However some of the cultural heritage community knowledge sharing drivers has not been adequately addressed. The significant growth of community based concept shows a great economic importance in producing reliable digital object repositories. We developed a conceptual framework of a community based emuseum (ComE) to facilitate the design of community knowledge sharing in as an attempt to solve the economic issues of sustaining a cultural heritage information system [1]. In this paper we further elaborate the framework by presenting the structural knowledge modeling of the subsystem of the ComE framework within the social technical system frame based on four components of community views. We demonstrate the instantiation by using the traditional Malay textile (TMT) as the cultural artifact as the case study.

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Capturing content for virtual museums

Cited by 4 publications

References 6 publications

Libraries and museums in the flat world: Are they becoming virtual destinations?

Libraries and museums in the flat world: Are they becoming virtual destinations?

Unified knowledge‐based content management for digital archives in museums

Structuring the Social Subsystem Components of the Community Based E-Museum Framework

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