Virtual Museum: editorial

Everything you wanted to know

Geoffrey Wirth — Wed, 22 Oct 2003 16:46:33 GMT

Everything xou wanted to know

About digital heritage, but were afraid to ask. We have updated our glossary. An overview of the most important terms and ideas concerning the representation and accessibility of cultural information on the web with defintions and links: DIG35 , DOM , DTD , Dublin Core , ECHO , FP5 , METS , NEMO , NISO , OAI , OAIS , OWL , HTML , RDF , RSS , Semantic Web , SMIL , TDR , URI , XML

Adapting Content for Wireless Web Services

Geoffrey Wirth — Tue, 14 Oct 2003 03:10:48 GMT

Ariel Pashtan  Aware Networks
Shriram Kollipara and Michael Pearce  Motorola

To demonstrate how XML-based technologies let context-aware wireless Web services adapt their content to a user's situation, Motorola Labs implemented a Web-enabled museum system in Motorola's history museum in Schaumburg, Illinois. The museum premises were used in the past year to gather visitors' feedback and study user-perceived benefits of wireless Web services. Based on a visitor's context˜for example, location, information interests, and device capabilities˜the system retrieves exhibit data from a content server. The system uses the W3C's Document Object Model (DOM) "API" to generate an XML tree-like structure, and Extensible Style Sheet Language Transformations ("XSLT")1,2 to generate Wireless Markup Language ("WML") or HTML content for display on mobile devices.

Exposed Content in the Web

Geoffrey Wirth — Tue, 14 Oct 2003 03:03:06 GMT

Universities, libraries, museums, archives, and other cultural heritage agencies are investing heavily in exposing more of their content via the Web:

"MIT" made headlines worldwide by promising to make freely available materials from its courses in the OpenCourseWare ("OCW") project.
The UT Austin Knowledge Gateway Initiative is aimed at providing digital Knowledge to all Texans.
The Museums and the Online Archive of California is aimed at "providing access to collections held by archives, museums, and libraries throughout the state of California."

University, Library, and Museum Content Meets "XML", Web Services, and "P2P"

Geoffrey Wirth — Tue, 14 Oct 2003 02:58:06 GMT

Raymond Yee, University of California, Berkeley

Making content available is only the first step in a long process in how universities, libraries, and museums can share their knowledge. Right now, users can look at digital content (texts, images, video) but cannot easily handle them as malleable, reusable pieces that work together regardless of data type or data origin.

manila express favelet built in!

Geoffrey Wirth — Sat, 04 Oct 2003 09:51:15 GMT

Virtual-Museum.at now has David Carter-Tod's manilaExpress For News Items feature built in! When you want to annotate a link, just select the text you wish to quote and choose the bookmarklet. It will automatically take you to the news items page with the fields filled in!
Drag the according bookmarklet (=favelet) to an appropriate place in your bookmarks menu:

Netscape: Log this page
IE: Log this page

virtual-museum.at opened

FOX medialab — Fri, 26 Sep 2003 19:25:59 GMT

Today we opened our new "english-speaking" Weblog on virtual museums and meta museums. It is run parallel to the "german speaking" site virtuelles-museum.at and will have similar, but not identical content. both are designated to communicate and discuss topics concerning virtual museums and meta museums on the web and elsewhere.

That said, we will now start filling this thing with content!