Integrated Digital Museum Framework
Joshua, Jen-Shin, HongDepartment of Computer Science and Information Engineering
Outline
• Experiences on digital museum development
• Issues of digital museum framework
• Demo: a proto-type system implementation
• Future work
Projects
• Digital museum development– 1998 : The Digital Museum of Butterflies of Taiwan
– 2000 : The Lanyu Digital Museum
– 2001 : Ali Mountain and Tsou culture Digital Museum
• Technology development– 2002 : National Digital Archive Project (technology devel
opment)
Phase 1: The Butterfly Digital Museum (1998)
• What is an digital museum - started “blindly”
• Propose possible functions for DM– Exhibition
– Digital Archive
– Interactive educational games
– Personalization
– Courseware
– FAQ
– …
Image Retrieval to identify butterfly specie
Archiving: XML
Exhibition: SMIL
Edutaining – 2D
Edutaining – 3D
Some thoughts• Major modules of digital museum proposed
– Media object archive– Textual/content-based image retrieval– Online exhibition– Education/entertaining games
• What is missing:– integrations– proper interface between different modules– proper workflow– knowledge/data interpretability– long term data and function preservation mechanism
Phase 2: The Lanyu Digital Museum (2001)
• Multi-domain : culture, plant, geology (stone, mineral), animal (insect, reptile)
Integrate archive and exhibition
• manufacture exhibitions from multimedia object archive
• Dynamic combination between exhibition content and exhibition appearance– Half-automation exhibition content editing– Archive management
• Produce different styles for different users• hardware Capacities,bandwidth,browser
• Easy to re-arrange an existing exhibition to accommodate different user need
Approach
Raw DataMultimedia
ObjectArchive
ExhibitionElement
Exhibition
ExhibitionScript
ExhibitionElement
ExhibitionElement
XML composing
XSLExhibitionElement
ExhibitionElement
Workflow
• Differentiate an exhibition script to a group of interlinked “exhibition elements”
• Use an XML document to convey the content of an exhibition element
• Use XSL documents to present exhibition elements• Use RDBMS to manage the structured XML
documents, media objects, hyperlinks
Using XML/XSL, how far can it go for multimedia-demanded digital museum exhibition?
Image Archives
Integrate exhibition and media archive
XML document for exhibition element
• Title
• Description text
• XSL document
• Multimedia objects
• Links to other exhibition elements
Switching the presentation style of an exhibition element using XSLs
Phase 3: The Ali-mountain Digital Museum (2001)
• Perspective from content expert
Fairy Tales
• Perspective from content expert
Lessons learned
• System integration – Exhibition vs. media archive
• Work Flow• Technology application• A more robust document model for an exhibition
element– Detailed block-based specifications of the textual and media
objects– Fine-grained synchronization between complex media objects
presentations– Partially/totally presentation independent?
• More sophisticated XSL authoring tools– Modularized, reusable web media-effect generator
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