We begin performance testing for two new smart phone tours (approximately 20 stops each) on Feb 1. All accessible via http://DallasMuseumofArt.mobi. We roll out to the public in three weeks -- woohoo!
Leave it to the Japanese:
In Japan, a new iPhone application is being used to help visitors navigate their way through a museum and to find data on the exhibitions.
Developers Tonchidot's Sekai Camera app enables users to tag things they want others to see.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/click_online/8214219.stm
Chris Alexander of the San Jose Museum of Art & Ted Forbes of the DMA discuss development of iPod Touch tours for their museums: from wireless networks, to interfaces, to back-end content management and signage in the galleries.
We have finally launched the new primary Web site. We still have some tweaks and minor debugging to plow through, but we are "live" and rockin' a new look and new functionality. We begin usability testing at the end of the month.
Podcast on DMA, Smithsonian, IMA collaboration on an open source mobile content delivery interface
http://dallasmuseumofart.tv/mobile/
Mobile Museum Wiki
http://museummobile.info/
Quite a nice little debate about the use of technology and access to info in gallery spaces going on over at Art & Seek:
http://www.kera.org/blogs/culture/2009/02/12/the-wireless-dma/
... and follow-up:
http://www.kera.org/blogs/culture/2009/02/20/video-dmas-arts-network/
The IMA has again knocked it out of the park with a new Web site. They are launching a very “Arts Networky” video broadcast site (philosophy, channels and all).
Now that your organization has finally gotten the funding to digitize your collection, what are you going to do with all those hi-res image files that are being generated and saved to your network?
Not to mention video. Doesn’t it seem like everyone in the museum is going around filming every event that holds even the slightest bit of interest, and leaving it up to you (I.T.) to decide what to do with the stuff? Craziness! How do you decide what to keep and what to discard? And how do you decide what you keep long term or short term, hi-res or low-res, locally or off-site?
