Collaboration and Technology - ALI-ABA 2012

ROBERT STEINDeputy Director for Research,Technology, and Engagement

Indianapolis Museum of Art

TECHNOLOGY & COLLABORATION

AT THE INDIANAPOLIS MUSEUM OF ART

After April 19…ROBERT STEINDeputy DirectorDallas Museum of Art

OPEN AND COLLABORATIVE

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ONLINESCHOLARLYPUBLISHING

EASY AND CLEAN READING EXPERIENCE

simple and beautiful

GOALS

BUILD CONFIDENCE – ENCOURAGE CITATION

an audience of scholars

GOALS

READ ANYWHEREmulti-platform

GOALS

THE BIGPICTURE

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FEEDS

CONTENT MANAGEMENT

IN DRUPAL

USER EXPERIENCEHTML5 / CSS3 &

JAVASCRIPT

Our Basic Approach

Many Books on Same Website

Possibly different requirements per catalogue(i.e. style, interaction, content model, etc…)

OSCI Reader

User Experience Tailored for Scholars and Citable Content

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FLEXIBLE DISPLAY

Multiple Layouts (no pages)

LAYOUT IS COMPUTED USINGFont Size

Line Height

Browser Size

• We’ve tested this on all size screens– Iphone– Flatpanels 1,2,3, 4, column– 3-screen– Tiled display wall

PDF / ePub Support

– Support static catalogues via PDF / ePub

– Fixed versions of interactives

– Fixed layout based on page size

– Endnotes instead of inline footnotes/figures

STAY TUN

ED!

http://OSCIToolkit.org

SAY HELLO TO

TAPTAP

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3 Goals for Mobile Content Management

1. Make Authoring Easy

2. Target Reuse

3. Leverage Core Systems

Balboa Park Online Collaborative

MFA Boston

Gemeente Museum Den Haag

Winona State University

Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art

TAP/TourML Collaborators

Museums• Balboa Park Online

Collaborative• Dallas Museum of Art• The Eiteljorg Museum of

Native American and Western Art

• Indianapolis Museum of Art• The Metropolitan Museum of

Art• Minnesota Historical Society• Museum of Contemporary Art,

San Diego• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

• National Air and Space Museum

• National Museum of the American Indian

• The Art Institute of Chicago

Vendors• AdLib Systems• GuideByCell• Imagineear• MyTours• NOUS Guides• Tristan Systems

THE BUILDING BLOCKSOF TAP

TAP ROADMAP

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• Create easy ways to author mobile content

• Finalize the TourML Specification• Create Mobile User-Interfaces• Create a validation tools for

TourML• Integrate with third-party tools• Test tools with museum content

collaborators

TAP ROADMAP

ROADMAPS

SPEAKING OF

http://TAPintoMuseums.org

ROBERT STEINDeputy Director for Research,Technology, and Engagement

Indianapolis Museum of Art

THANK YOU!QUESTIONS?