Designing interoperable museum information systems

Gavrilis, Dimitris and Tsakonas, Giannis and Papatheodorou, Christos Designing interoperable museum information systems., 2008 . In 14th International Conference on Virtual Systems and MultiMedia, Λεμεσσός (CY), 20-26 Οκτωβρίου. [Conference paper]

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Museum collections are characterized by heterogeneity, since they usually host a plethora of objects of categories, while each of them requires different description policies and metadata standards. Moreover the museum records, which keep the history and evolution of the hosted collections, request proactive curation in order to preserve this rich and diverse information. In this paper, the architecture of an innovative museum information system, as well as its implementation details is presented. In particular the requirements and the system architecture are presented along with the problems that were encountered. The main directions of the system design are (a) to increase interoperability levels and therefore assist proactive curation and (b) to enhance navigation by the usage of handheld devices. The first direction is satisfied by the design of a rich metadata schema based on the CIDOC/CRM standard. The second direction is fulfilled by the implementation of a module, which integrates the museum database with a subsystem appropriate to support user navigation into the museum floors and rooms. The module is expressed as a navigation functionality, which is accessed through handheld devices and peripherals, such as PDAs and RFID tags. The proposed system is functional and operates into the Solomos Museum, situated in Zakynthos island, Greece.

Item type:	Conference paper
Keywords:	Digital museum, Management systems, interoperability, CIDOC/CRM, ψηφιακό μουσείο, συστήματα διαχείρισης, διαλειτουργικότητα
Subjects:	L. Information technology and library technology > LZ. None of these, but in this section. J. Technical services in libraries, archives, museum. > JH. Digital preservation. D. Libraries as physical collections. > DM. Museums. J. Technical services in libraries, archives, museum. > JE. Record keeping.
Depositing user:	null null
Date deposited:	26 Jun 2009
Last modified:	02 Oct 2014 12:14
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/10760/13242

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