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Hi,
At the newly opend Riverside Musuem in Glasgow, we have placed a huge emphasis on digital content, with is acting as the main interpretive method for delivering out some of our stories. With this in mind, we have had to create a bespoke CMS which can updated at the click of a button by anyone with authorisation. There are over 100 screens deliveriing everything from AV content, multi-player gameplays, customer feedback screens, what's on and orientation screens, and e-storybooks. Added to this are out E-intros- electronic introduction panels that display, text, film, animation and still images, plus multi langyauges options including BSL. all of our digitial content on the floor is run by individual mini macs, with the back end also run on a Mac.
This emans that we are able to change displays, and update content as required. The main focus is the E-Intros, where if a member of public brings an image relating to a story, we can simply scan it, give it a caption and upload it onto the gallery floor- assuming it fits our curitorial remit.
As we've only just opened, and have not amde changes to the displays, the process has not ben refined, but liek any exhibition/content changes, they will need to go through the same rigorious curitorial process as any other type of interpretation.
The dialy changes to the What's on screens, have been passed to our front of house team.
if anyone is in Glasgow, i suggest thet come and have a look, otherwise, Museums ID is offfering a study day soon.
http://www.museum-id.com/events-detail.asp?newsID=238
Any questions, please get in touch, although you may have realised I am not the technical expert! But the digital interpretation manager is presenting at this event.
Sam
> Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 09:33:23 +0100
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> Subject: Re: In-gallery interactive displays & changing content
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> Having kiosks on-gallery which are web-connected would be my answer. That
> way you could run websites, AIR files which are updated by web feed, Flash,
> html5 interactives... and do it all from the same CMS you use for updating
> your public web presence.
>
> The network issue ("we don't have connectivity on-gallery")
> is presumably going to phase out over time as old kit is pulled out, and
> I've have thought that running a wifi network or even mifi and being
> reasonably cunning about when you update (ie having most of the assets
> locally and only calling the web when you want to update) isn't rocket
> science. The other thing it enables is much easier web<->gallery dialogue -
> so "X person just posted a comment in our Y exhibition" appearing on the
> website - that kind of thing.
>
> Having said that, I tried to get this to happen at NMSI and mostly failed,
> something to do with the fact that gallery, IT and web teams weren't always
> pulling in the same direction - so maybe it's politics rather than technical
> vision getting in the way :-)
>
> The guys who have IIRC done it really well are Museum of Wales - they did a
> demo at an MCG meeting a while back and I see they did some stuff for MWEB:
> http://www.archimuse.com/mw2010/abstracts/prg_335002432.html. Pretty sure
> John Williams would be delighted to tell you more / put you in touch with
> people who could tell you more!
>
> cheers
>
> Mike
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> On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 11:12 AM, Birchall, Danny <[log in to unmask]
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> > I've got a bundle of questions about in-gallery interactives....
> >
> > Do any of you have kiosks/interactives/screen-based displays in your
> > permanent galleries or public spaces on which the content regularly changes?
> > How do you manage this? Do you reconfigure the equipment each time for for
> > new content, commission content based on the equipment's spec, or what? Who
> > commissions/programmes/curates the content? How long, realistically, does
> > such a thing last before you have to replace all the stuff from scratch?
> >
> > Thanks in advance -- happy to take replies off list or to collate answers
> > if it's of wider interest...
> >
> > Danny
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> > Danny Birchall
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