Hypermuseum
Hypermuseum (Ontology based Internet support for the active use of digital museum data for teaching and presentation)
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Funding: European Telematics (AD4005(AD))
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Partners: Civita Consortium, Uffizi Gallery, Les amis du Musée Calvet, National Museums of Scotland, Oxfords hire County Council Cultural Services, Euroclid s.a.r.l., Finsiel S.p.A., IBM Italia S.p.A., Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores, Central Institute of Catalogue and Documentation, Telecom Italia
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Period (yyyy-mm-dd): 1998-11-01 --- 2001-04-30
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Members: Peter Stuer
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Summary: In the European Telematics (4-5th FP) project Hypermuseum (completed March 2001), the subject of research was the question how teachers in cultural science, with a very limited knowledge of new, advanced technologies, can be supported and encouraged to use these new media in their education. In cooperation with several renowned museums from different European countries, STAR Lab built a sophisticated application that allows teachers to easily generate course material which can be put available on the Internet. For this purpose, the software system extracts information and media directly from the European museums. On the other hand, the application also enables the suppliers of information (in our case the museums), to make their information available in such a way that this can be a possible source of income.
- Publications:
- Stuer P., Meersman R. & De Bruyne S., The HyperMuseum Theme Generator System: Ontology-based Internet support for the active use of digital museum data for teaching and presentation, In, Bearman, D. & Trant, J.,(eds.), Museums and the web 2001: Selected Papers, pp. 127-137. Archives & Museum Informatics, Pittsburgh, PA, 2001.