Museum Informatics Schedule

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[edit] Introduction

The evolving schedule here is entirely provisional. Please help out by correcting or improving and references included.

[edit] Week 2 Overview of Museum Informatics

  • Marty, P., Rayward, W.B., Twidale M.B. (2003). Museum Informatics. In B. Cronin (Ed.), Annual Review of Information Science and Technology. Vol. 37. Medford: Information Today. 259-294.

http://www.library.uiuc.edu/orr/get.php?instid=516902 DOI: 10.1002/aris.1440370107

Museum Observation Activity. Make notes and be prepared to report what you saw in the next class.

What people like about Museums Museum_Informatics_Aspects

[edit] Week 3 Museum Websites

Consider the websites of 3 physical museums you are familiar with.

To what extent is visiting the website like visiting the actual museum?
To what extent do those sites agree with the claims of the readings?
To what extent do you agree with the claims of the readings?

Consider the websites from the perspective of 4 different kinds of use/user:

  • Before an actual visit to the physical museum (preparing for your visit)
  • During a visit (assuming that you use a kiosk or computer room in the museum)(spend least time on this one)
  • After a visit (maybe to get more info about something you saw and liked, to help with a child's homework)
  • Instead of a visit (you can't get to the museum, so are going online instead)

Don't worry if many issues merge across the 4 perspectives - the point is to see if the distinctions are useful or not. Make brief notes. Be prepared to verbally report in class a few good and bad things about the sites you examined. Similar to last week, but be prepared to take us to the site and show us the pages you are talking about.

[edit] Week 4 The Usability of Museum Websites

  • Cunliffe, D., Kritou, E., & Tudhope, D. (2001). Usability evaluation for museum websites. Museum Management and Curatorship 19(3), 229-252. {N.B. You have to go in via the UIUC library link in order to be validated and get access}.
  • Vergo, J., & Karat, C.-M., et al. (2001). "less clicking, more watching": Results from the user-centered design of a multi-institutional web site for arts and culture. In D. Bearman & J. Trant (Eds.), Museums and the Web 2001 (pp. 23-32). http://www.archimuse.com/mw2001/papers/vergo/vergo.html

In class be ready to discuss how the findings of these papers compare with your own experiences of using museum websites.

  • Optional: If you can, try to watch someone using a museum website, ideally for real (they were thinking of of going to the site anyway). Otherwise suggest a site and a plausible task, like planning a trip up to Chicago to go to a special exhibition.

[edit] Week 5 Metadata

http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue5_6/bishoff/

  • Kenneth Hamma (2004). The role of museums in online teaching, learning, and research

First Monday, volume 9, number 5 (May 2004), URL: http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_5/hamma/index.html particularly the section "Cataloging and user access"

April 21, 2000. Pages 1-10, and apendix D http://www.cimi.org/public_docs/meta_bestprac_v1_1_210400.pdf

Museum Metadata Activity. Make notes and be prepared to report what you saw in the next class.


[edit] Week 6 Metadata

Readings The Art & Architecture Thesaurus ® (AAT), the Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ® (TGN), and the Union List of Artist Names ® (ULAN) http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/aat/about.html

SDD Part 0: Introduction and Primer to the SDD Standard http://160.45.63.11/Projects/TDWG-SDD/Primer/index.htm Overview of available schema versions and documentation (UBIF and SDD 1.0) http://160.45.63.11/Projects/TDWG-SDD/Minutes/2004NZ_schema/DocuOverview.html

Do the exercise at: Museum_Informatics_AAT

[edit] Week 7 Natural History Museum Metadata Federation

Lecture: Powerpoint http://leep.lis.uiuc.edu/spring06/lis490mug/FederationNaturalHistory.ppt Readings:
Reed Beaman, John Wieczorek, and Stan Blum (2004) Determining space from place for natural history collections in a distributed digital library environment. D-Lib Magazine 10 (no. 5) http://www.dlib.org/dlib/may04/beaman/05beaman.html.

P Caplan, S Haas (2004) Metadata remixed: merging museum and library boundries. LIBRARY HI TECH, 2004 http://www.sims.monash.edu.au/subjects/ims2603/resources/Assignment2Papers/p263.pdf

See the one page description of DigIR at http://www.specifysoftware.org/Informatics/informaticsdigir/
Learn about DigIR from http://DigIR.net
Search in Google for "museum digir.php". What do you find?
Go to http://digir.fieldmuseum.org/digir/DiGIR.php and view the source of the page. This is the language of DigIR.

Federation Activity: Do this activity after reading the DigIR paper. Consider the technical and social issues involved to bring together this facility.

Visit the GBIF site at http://www.gbif.org

Search the collections and answer these questions: Select Tamias striatus (Linnaeus, 1758)
• How many specimens or observations of Tamias striatus are found in the collection?
• Which museum has the most specimens?
• Is it easy to find the type specimens?

On the result page you will see the “Catalogue of Life: Integrated Taxonomic Information System” use the “Details” button to find the Tamias striatus Experts. What museums do they work at?
Press the “ALL” button for detailed records form the Field Museum (FMNH) (digir.fieldmuseum.org) Mammal specimens and observe the distribution map. The first specimen record will be
105796 Tamias striatus ohionensis Apr 28, 1972 USA jct Hwy 36 & Hwy J 42.736 -88.218

Click the location (jct Hwy 36 & Hwy J
Is there a way to find the overall distribution of this species in the United States?

See the data provider page near the home page for GBIF and answer these questions:

Why do the museums participate?
Which countries are underrepresented?
Why might that be?


Pick some other plant or animal of your choice and see what you can find out about it. Does it seem to have a special relationship with any particular museum? Use GBIF and direct Museum and other sources for information. Can you find out why? For class discussion be prepared for a 2 minute of discussion of museum handling of the species.

[edit] Week 8 Federation and Museum Automation Projects

March 7:\\ 9:00 Tim Cole and Jenny Benevento

New Item-level Interface

New Homepage

Tim's Readings, regarding the history of OAI/its uses:

Lagoze, Carl and Herbert Van de Sompel. "The Open Archive Initiative: Building a Low-Barrier Interoperability Framework." In JCDL '01, June 24-28, 2001, Roanoke, Virginia, USA.. New York, NY: ACM Press (2001): 54-62.

Lagoze, Carl and Herbert Van de Sompel. "The making of the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting." Library Hi Tech 21(2):2003 p.128. http://www.emeraldinsight.com.proxy2.library.uiuc.edu/Insight/viewContentItem.do?contentType=Article&contentId=861361 DOI: 10.1108/07378830310479776

Both in the same issue:

Ray, Joyce. "Connecting people and resources: digital programs at the institute of museum and library services." Library Hi Tech 22(3): 2004, P. 253.

Caplan, Priscilla, and Stephanie Haas. "Metadata rematrixed: merging museum and library boundaries." Library Hi Tech 22(3): 2004, p. 269. (This is most focused on museums.)

http://mtmathlib.library.uiuc.edu/lis490mug Tim's PDF


Jenny's Readings on the history of the IMLS DCC Project:

Summary of IMLS NLG Collections White Paper (.pdf)

project chronology

skim through: Template for Collection Registry Information (.pdf)

http://leep.lis.uiuc.edu/publish/benevent/MuseumInformatics.ppt Jenny's .PPT


Join us for more talking about metadata at the metadata round table


Needs Analysis: Define the nature of the problem. What is problematic with the current approach? Literature review of what approaches have been taken. How will your project work?

[edit] Week 9 Federation and Museum Automation Projects

March 14:

9:00 Tim Cole and Muriel Foulonneau

10:30 KE EMu Demo: Danielle Knight and Alan Brooks

Readings: Continuing the readings from week 8 (discussion of readings will occur after spring break)

[edit] Spring Break

March 21:


[edit] Week 10 Automation and New technology

March 28:

9:00 Discussion of OpenArchives Initiative Readings
10:30 Guest Speaker: Larry Gall PhD,
Head, Computer Systems Office &
Curatorial Affiliate in Entomology
Peabody Museum of Natural History
KE EMu Migration: Hopes, Aspirations, Wishful Thinking and Day Dreams

Readings:

  • Boehner, K., Gay, G., & Larking, C. (2005). Drawing evaluation into design for mobile computing: A case study of the renwick gallery's handheld education project. Journal of Digital Libraries, Special Issue on Digital Museum, 5(3), 219-230. http://www.springerlink.com/link.asp?id=n57056720362k289


Proof of concept and report. Describe what it does. What were the approaches evaluated but not taken. Identify technological opportunities. Design tradeoffs related to reaching the goals, constraints, tradeoffs and technical opportunities. Redesign the system based on these tradeoffs.

[edit] Week 11 The Best of Museums and the Web 2006 and New Technology

Apr 4:

[edit] Week 12 & 13 Presentations and Advanced Technology

April 11 & 18:

Presentation Functional Prototype delivery: Along with continued evaluation of the approach. Redeliver the needs, evaluation of how the service might meet the needs (or not) and a look to the future of what would be required to move from the prototype to a fully functional system.

Three dimensional scanning of Museum Artifacts
Building a digital model of Michelangelo's Florentine Pieta Bernardini, F.; Rushmeier, H.; Martin, I.M.; Mittleman, J.; Taubin, G.; Computer Graphics and Applications, IEEE Volume 22, Issue 1, Jan.-Feb. 2002 Page(s):59 - 67 (In the UIUC e-journal collection) http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/search/wrapper.jsp?arnumber=974519

Download your own copy of David from the Digital Michelangelo Project and check put the detail. http://graphics.stanford.edu/software/scanview/

[edit] Prototyping Techniques

Rettig, M (1994) Prototyping for tiny fingers. Communications of the ACM, 37 (4).

http://www.paperprototyping.com/

Oulasvirta, A., Kurvinen, E., & Kankainen, T. (2003). Understanding contexts by being there: case studies in bodystorming. Personal Ubiquitous Comput., 7(2), 125-134. http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/oulasvir/scipubs/bodystorming_AO_EK_TK.pdf

Hourihan, M. (2002). Taking the "you" out of user: My experience using Personas. Boxes and arrows. http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/taking_the_you_out_of_user_my_experience_using_personas

[edit] Week 14 Future of Natural History Museum Informatics

April 25:

The Biodiversity Heritage Library http://bhl.si.edu/ Representatives of a number of major natural history and botanical libraries met at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., with the support of the Smithsonian Institution, to develop a strategy and operational plan to digitize the published literature of biodiversity held in their respective collections and to make that literature available for open access and responsible use as a part of a global “biodiversity commons.”

Can Natural History Museums Capture the Future? Issn: 0006-3568 Journal: BioScience Volume: 50 Issue: 7 Pages: 611-617 Authors: KRISHTALKA, LEONARD, HUMPHREY, PHILIP S. DOI: 10.1043/0006-3568(2000)050<0611:CNHMCT>2.0.CO;2 http://www.bioone.org.proxy2.library.uiuc.edu/pdfserv/i0006-3568-050-07-0611.pdf

Revisiting the Visit: Understanding How Technology Can Shape the Museum Visit (2002) Rebecca E. Grinter, Paul M. Aoki, Amy Hurst, Margaret H. Szymanski, James D. Thornton, Allison Woodruff Proc AMC Conference on Computer Assisted Cooperative Work. From the UIUC ACM DL or http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/correct/617809

Virtual Reality Virtual Universe Centuries of astronomy, plus video-game technology, combine to offer a stunning new perspective on our place in space. By Brian Abbott, Carter Emmart, and Ryan Wyatt Images from the Digital Universe provided by Carter Emmart © 2004 American Museum of Natural History http://www.naturalhistorymag.com/master.html?http://www.naturalhistorymag.com/0404/0404_feature.html

Adult Learning Environments

Science, Math, Engineering, Technology, Biology

[edit] Week 15 Future of Cultural Museum Informatics

May 2:

Turn in final project (by midnight)

  • Galani, A., & Chalmers, M. (2002). Can You See Me? Exploring Co-Visiting Between Physical and Virtual Visitors. In D. Bearman & J. Trant (Eds.), Museums and the Web 2002 (pp. 31-40). Pittsburgh, PA: Archives and Museum Informatics.
  • Schnädelbach H., Kolvea B., Twidale M.B., Benford S. (2004). The Iterative Design Process of a Location-aware Device for Group Use. Proceedings Ubicomp2004, Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol 3205. 329-346. http://www.equator.ac.uk/var/uploads/Holger2004.pdf
  • Bornträger, C. and K. Cheverst, (2003). Social and Technical Pitfalls Designing a Tourist Guide System”, in Proc. of 2nd International Workshop on Mobile Tourism Support, B. Schmidt-Belz and K. Cheverst (Eds), Udine, Italy, September 2003. http://www.borntraeger.net/christian/science/pitfalls.pdf
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