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Virtual Exhibits Theory, methods, and tools for development of virtual exhibits on demand

Virtual Exhibits Theory, methods, and tools for development of virtual exhibits on demand. The VED Project plus ”A Whale of a Site” Paper for the Museums and the Web Conference, 2003 Joan C. Nordbotten, 1.amanuensis Dept. of Information Science, University of Bergen

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Virtual Exhibits Theory, methods, and tools for development of virtual exhibits on demand

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  1. Virtual ExhibitsTheory, methods, and tools for development of virtual exhibits on demand The VED Project plus ”A Whale of a Site” Paper for the Museums and the Web Conference, 2003 Joan C. Nordbotten, 1.amanuensis Dept. of Information Science, University of Bergen http://www.ifi.uib.no/staff/joan/ Virtual Exhibits on Demand

  2. Virtual Exhibits on Demand - VED NFR project 2002-2005 http://nordbotten.ifi.uib.no/VirtualMuseum/VMwebSite/VEDweb-site.htm Project leader: Joan C. Nordbotten Partners: Jan Erik Vold, IT director Bergen Museum Anne Karin Hufthammer, 1.aman -”- Participants: 1 – PhD stipendiat – Vibeke Vold Informasjonsvitenskap 6 – master/hovedfag projects started Fall’02 -”- 19 – hovedfag seminar students Spring ’03 -”- NFR support: per year: travel + ca. 1300 hours (project assistants) Virtual Exhibits on Demand

  3. VED Project motivation The user – Teacher/student/researcher • Requiring data/information about a specific topic • “immediately” – or at most 1-2 weeks The provider – Museums – world wide • (Virtual) exhibit topics are determined by museum curators. • Exhibits are hand crafted. Creation time in man-months • Virtual exhibits are: • Local few collaborations across museums • Self-contained lack links to external sites • Static predefined • On-line databasesare for museum colleagues Virtual Exhibits on Demand

  4. VED DB access problems Information retrieval from museum databases is difficult Problems include: • Search interface assumes knowledge of collection DB • Keyword search with list aids – moderate help • QBIC (query by image content) is difficult to use • Result presentation • Without apparent order • Bound to 1 DB • Transient • Little explanatory information Virtual Exhibits on Demand

  5. http://americanart.si.edu/study/ Virtual Exhibits on Demand

  6. VED Project Goals to develop IT methods, and techniques to support development of ’on-demand’ virtual exhibits - search & save from multiple DB sources for educational applications Virtual Exhibits on Demand

  7. MM-DB R I Object Catalog V T VED Project components Presentation Model VED project Virtual Exhibit Semantic Model Semantic Schema SemQL Bergen Museum + Associated museums Oracle 9i Virtual Exhibits on Demand

  8. VED Status – Feb 2003 DB test bed v.0.1 Oracle8i Bergen Museum, Oracle 9i at IFI theme Whales Dept. of Zoology - Osteologi • RDB-catalog Whale collection • Document DB Text/Html documents • Image DB scanned images • Video DB from excursions - Gunnar Langhelle, BM Hovedfag projects: - started Fall ’02 • Multimedia DB modelling & integration (2+1) • Query language development (3) • Data presentation (2) Interface prototypes: • Split-screen for image + documents • Quadrant for images, facts, and video Virtual Exhibits on Demand

  9. VED split-screen interface v0.01 Rune Vidareid, jcn March 02http://nordbotten.ifi.uib.no/VirtualMuseum/demo/demo.htm Virtual Exhibits on Demand

  10. Questions or commentson the VED project? Virtual Exhibits on Demand

  11. ”A Whale of a Site” Anne Karin Hufthammer, Assoc. Professor Natural History Museum, Zoological section University of Bergen Joan C. Nordbotten, Assoc. professor Dept. of Information Science, University of Bergen http://www.ifi.uib.no/staff/joan/ Virtual Exhibits on Demand

  12. ”A Whale of a Site” Paper for the Museums and the Web conference - 2003 http://nordbotten.ifi.uib.no/VirtualMuseum/Publications/MW2003paperWebVersion.htm Application for the VED project Prototype development: Joan C. Nordbotten Bengt Hjertholm, h-fag student Informasjonsvitenskap Jan Erik Vold, IT director Bergen Museum Prototype location: under development !! http://nordbotten.ifi.uib.no/VirtualMuseum/WhaleExhibit/demo.htm Virtual Exhibits on Demand

  13. VED - Whale Exhibit goals Goals for the virtual exhibit: • Present Bergen Museum’s (physical) whale exhibit 24 specimens believed to be the largest of its kind in the world • Support research, educational, and general public interests Long-term goals: • Give virtual ’access’ to the whole whale collection 94 specimens • Provide an interface to associated collections Current focus: • Presentation of very large objects in a Virtual exhibit • The use of video Virtual Exhibits on Demand

  14. VED - Whale Exhibit context Bergen Museum’s whale hall • 300 m2 • 24 whale specimens • 22 whole skeletons • 2 crania • 18 (all) N.Atlantic species • 1.4 – 24m • 10 skeletons > 5m • large and small fish • coral • Development specimens • Images Virtual Exhibits on Demand

  15. VED - Whale Exhibit imaging Imaging challenges • Very large & overlapping specimens • Only 1 view/perspective available no 3D possibilities • Lighting • Funding Video experiments: For interface: • http://museum.uib.no/demo/dyremuseet.MOV • http://museum.uib.no/bmu/hval/qtvr/1.mov For data presentation • http://nordbotten.ifi.uib.no/VirtualMuseum/WhaleExhibit/filmOKknoel.mov Virtual Exhibits on Demand

  16. VED - Whale Exhibitvideo interfacehttp://museum.uib.no/demo/dyremuseet.MOV Characteristics: • Gives ’walk through’ experience • Easy/intuitive selection of supplemental information • good proportions Requirements: • Requires non-overlapping source objects • Professional development • expensive to produce • ’rigid’ – difficult to change/modify • High-end PC with broadband connection required • unavailable to 97% of the world population (Internet survey Jan.2003) Virtual Exhibits on Demand

  17. VED - Whale Exhibit whale hall video http://museum.uib.no/bmu/hval/qtvr/1.mov Problems: • 5 videos required for the 2 rooms • no natural transitions => ’walk-through’ • Distorted proportions • Relatively long load time Virtual Exhibits on Demand

  18. VED - Whale Exhibit Video for data presentationhttp://nordbotten.ifi.uib.no/VirtualMuseum/WhaleExhibit/filmOKknoel.mov Characteristics: • Own production Nikon Coolpix 4500 digital camera • Quickly done ca. 10 minutes • Inexpensive • Poor zoom quality Plans: • Develop image/video clip for each specimen • ’Match’ video time to skeleton length Virtual Exhibits on Demand

  19. VED - Whale ExhibitPrototypehttp://nordbotten.ifi.uib.no/VirtualMuseum/WhaleExhibit/demo.htm Characteristics: • Architect drawing as an interface – inexpensive in time requirements • Quadrant layout for specimen data • Combination of: • Research collection and • Popular information • Database based Further development: • Design development • Addition of text query facility • ’real’ DB retrieval • Multi-Database access Virtual Exhibits on Demand

  20. VED Takk for oppmerksomhet  For more information http://nordbotten.ifi.uib.no/VirtualMuseum/VMwebSite/VEDweb-site.htm Virtual Exhibits on Demand

  21. VEDEarly prototypes VED interface, v0.01 - Rune Vidareid, jcn http://nordbotten.ifi.uib.no/VirtualMuseum/demo/demo.htm Bergen Museum, videos: http://museum.uib.no/demo/dyremuseet.MOV http://mediabase.uib.no/nafa/index.html http://museum.uib.no/bmu/hval/qtvr/1.mov http://museum.uib.no/bmu/hval/qtvr/enlink/1_enlink.mov Whale exhibit prototype. V0.01 – Bengt Hjertholm, jcn http://nordbotten.ifi.uib.no/VirtualMuseum/WhaleExhibit/demo.htm Virtual Exhibits on Demand

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