GSLIS 2006 Museum resources and cross domain digital applications Muriel Foulonneau () Grainger Engineering Library University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Digital Library Research Lab. March 2006
Cross-domain applications 2
Digital heritage Museums / libraries / archives / archaeological sites 3
Research and technology Collection registry Digitization program European programs and policy Technical information OAI Metadata formats Digitization Legal information 4
At European level Committees Projects Involvement of funding agencies Research networks Institutions networks Cross-domain and specific Memory, Knowledge, Cultural institutions 5
What we can do together Digitizing More 3D, VR, Publishing Databases, tourist interest (=attracting users), education, exhibitions 6
Collaborations 7
Regional collaborations between museums Musenor Alienor 8
And libraries, archives, foundations 9
24 Hour museum http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/ Promotion of tourism and cultural activities in the UK 10
Museum collections 11
Advertizing, digitizing, publishing 12
Picture Australia 13
Sharing metadata 14
Terminologies Usually for Object name Place Person Organisation Subjects Some multilingual thesauri ICOM Costume Committee s Vocabulary of Basic Terms for Cataloguing Costume (English, French and German), Iconclass (English, French, German and Italian), and the Getty s Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT), (Dutch, English and Spanish) But lack of common terminologies in European countries 15
Linking objects Musketti (Finnish national museum) Mesmuses project 16
EROS database community specific Multilingual vocabulary (Catalan, Danish, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish) set up for the indexing of the scientific and restoration reports Controlled lists of terms as well as the free text information fields (such as the titles) have been translated from French to English, to Portuguese and to Japanese 17
Experimenting OAI CIMI Dublin Core testbed Best practices http://www.cimi.org/public_docs/meta_bestprac_v1_1_2104 00.pdf Top level access points Who / What / Where / When Open Collections AMOL 18
24 Hour Museum OAI project Dublin Core Culture CIMI top level access points Importance of Place and Time Culture The DP creates its own snippet Metadata modification was a problem 19
Catalogs contain records for interpretation A database Legal deposit 20
Reliable content Quality principles for cultural Websites 1- Transparence: Clearly state the identity and purpose of the website, as well as the organization responsible for its management 21
.museum Museum Domain Management Association (MuseDoma) to provide verifiable means for recognizing domain names used by bona fide museums, their professional associations, and individual members of the museum profession Second level domain name Location or discipline or generic term http://the.baghdad.museum/ artinstitute.art.chicago.museum and artinstitute.chicago.art.museum canada.virtual.museum 22
Content-based retrieval 23
Artiste Search similar patterns 24
Artiste Search similar color 25
Image analysis Shape-based classification 26
Digitization 27
Crisatel capturing high fidelity content 28
Spectral reconstruction of reflectance curve 29
CRISATEL 30
Modeling and virtual reality 31
Museum conception How you plan a new space 32
Haptic interfaces 33 The Dame d Auxerre - Le Louvre
3D reconstruction of monuments 34
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Reconstitution of Ramses II statue in Thebes 36
Environments 37
Virtual encounter in Cluny 38
Mobile devices 39
Recording time and space info - Valhalla Recording with hand held device plants and their evolution + GIS 40
Using mobile devices Archeoguide Preparing visit 3D reconstruction of places GIS 41
User experience 42
Involving user Preparing visit Visiting Interactivity Getting something from home Contributing My museum - Customization Customer Relationship Management 43
Street art exhibition 44
Experience http://hiphoponline.fr/ http://jpadalbera.free.fr/hiphop/expo.htm 45
User contributions estage and the European pupetteers Community driven museums 46
Publishing content 47
Tourism Attracting people on site 48
Education L histoire par l image Historical Context - Image analysis - Interpretation http://www.histoire-image.org/ 49
Discovery http://www.culture.gouv.fr/documentation/ccmf/fr/pres.htm 50
Entertainment Adventure to save endangered paintings 51
Conclusions About experience About scientific work Particular community building Domain specific museums Local museum networks User communities A lot of about learning and schools and children access Tourism What do we call a digital library? 52
Acknowledgements Thank you to Jean-Pierre Dalbera for all the pictures he takes, wherever he goes and which are included in this presentation. 53