Integrated Digital Museum Framework

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Integrated Digital Museum Framework

• Joshua, Jen-Shin, Hong
• Department of Computer Science and Information
  Engineering

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Outline

• Experiences on digital museum development
• Issues of digital museum framework
• Demo a proto-type system implementation
• Future work

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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 development)

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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

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Image Retrieval to identify butterfly specie
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Archiving XML
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Exhibition SMIL
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Edutaining 2D
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Edutaining 3D
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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

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Phase 2 The Lanyu Digital Museum (2001)

• Multi-domain culture, plant, geology (stone,
  mineral), animal (insect, reptile)

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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

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Approach
Raw Data
Multimedia Object Archive
XML composing
Exhibition Element
Exhibition Script
Exhibition Element
Exhibition Element
Exhibition Element
Exhibition Element
XSL
Exhibition
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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?

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Image Archives
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Integrate exhibition and media archive
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XML document for exhibition element

• Title
• Description text
• XSL document
• Multimedia objects
• Links to other exhibition elements

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Switching the presentation style of an exhibition
element using XSLs
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Phase 3 The Ali-mountain Digital Museum (2001)

• Perspective from content expert

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Fairy Tales

• Perspective from content expert

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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