Dear James,
Just to pick up on the standards point. I know we'll be discussing this
in person soon, but just to confirm that the broad aim with SPECTRUM is
to work with the British Museum/ResearchSpace team and others in the
sector to create a standard for publishing rich museum data based on the
CIDOC CRM, and then providing support for 3rd party applications to
interrogate that data programmatically according to their needs.
Hence, rather than asking museums individually to map and re-map the
data from SPECTRUM-compliant Collections Management Systems to different
end-points, the long-term aim is to future-proof the re-usability of
this data by publishing the semantic and structural richness of the
underlying data and then letting the end-points do the work of deciding
what and how to render.
This is central to the COPE (Create Once, Publish Everywhere) discussion
- see
http://www.collectionslink.org.uk/discover/sustaining-digital/1766-cope
and the update on the Responsive Museum at
http://www.collectionslink.org.uk/blog/2012-responsivemuseum, and was
the main substantive outcome of the Museum Informatics meeting which
took place at the National Railway Museum in York earlier in the year.
The long-term aim is twofold:
1. To evolve the SPECTRUM standard to handle a broader range of
physical, digital, intellectual and administrative 'assets' and;
2. To evolve the SPECTRUM Units of Information to provide richer, more
effective mechanisms for data exchange and semantics
Which is a long way of saying that yes - we would very much envisage the
emergence of standards so that Collections Management Systems can serve
up rich data that is portable across different user applications,
including waypoint/tour information.
I was recently pointed at the V&A 'tour map' as an example of responsive
design which pulls data from multiple sources and serves it up as a
user-friendly application. I'm sure you're all aware of it already, but
just in case, have a look at
http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/visit-us/map-of-the-museum/.
All best,
Nick
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James Grimster
Sent: 26 September 2013 09:43
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Subject: Re: Museum / Gallery Apps
Interesting. not for the Open Source aspect per se, but the
encouragement of an open standards approach to the waypoint / tour data.
There are a plethora of free, paid and bespoke options most locking the
client into a closed database / schema - so anything where there is a
data portable approach has to be a good thing?
The same attempts for standards based schemas are being made for
Augmented Reality
Will we see an emergence of a standards based approach, so that
Collection Management Systems can transform records to support the
waypoint / tour data without immediately being locked into a vendor's
proprietary offering?
all best
James Grimster
On 24 Sep 2013, at 14:06, Marco Mason wrote:
> TAP is an open-souce mobile platform:
> http://tapintomuseums.org
>
>
http://www.imamuseum.org/blog/2010/04/05/5-reasons-why-tap-should-be-you
r-museums-next-mobile-platform/
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