New ways to search, navigate and use multimedia museum collections over the Web

Publication Type  Conference Paper
Year of Publication  2005
Authors  Lewis, Paul; Martinez, Kirk; Stevenson, James; Addis, Matthew; Giorgini, Fabrizio
Conference Name  Museums and the Web 2005: Proceedings
Conference Start Date  April 13-16
Publisher  Archives & Museum Informatics
Conference Location  Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Editor  Jennifer Trant and David Bearman
Keywords  Semantic Web; 3D models; CIDOC CRM; search and retrieval; eLearning
Abstract  

Museums and galleries are becoming increasing rich in digital information. This is often created for internal activities such as cataloguing, curation, conservation and restoration, but also has many additional uses including gallery terminals, Web access, educational, scientific, and commercial licensing. New forms of multimedia content such as 3D models and virtual spaces have huge potential for enhancing the way people interact with museum collections; for example, in structured eLearning environments. Despite drivers for increased integration of information sources within the museum or gallery, and for improved Web accessibility for external users, this content is often hard to access and is held in multiple internal systems with non-standard schemas and descriptions. Providing information to external users or applications in a structured and machine-readable form is particularly difficult due to a lack of tools and standards. This makes it difficult to expose this rich source of information so it can be used over the Web in external applications. Over the past three years, the European Commission IST supported SCULPTEUR project has been addressing these problems by developing new ways to create, search, navigate, access, share, repurpose and use multimedia content over the Web for professional users. This paper describes the tools and techniques developed in the project.

URL  http://www.archimuse.com/mw2005/papers/addis/addis.html
Citation Key  8263

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