Hello, I like your thinking a lot and the mobile app too. I've been involved since 1995 in mobile interpretive technologies http://4274design.com/mobile_intro.html and have come to think the word museum itself is getting out of date.
While there is no good substitute for it, I've coined the term interpretopia to mean the virtual and physical "space" that interpretation takes place within, whether it's an exhibit drawer, a museum, a watershed, or the universe.
In this concept, the Open Museum is one source node of information in a layer of museums. Advertisers or facilitators are nodes in other layers that are available to users as needed.
The complexity arises in designing an interface to make it accessible without too many clicks. I have always thought that to keep granny as happy as geek-kid, the interface needs modes ranging from "easy but pushy" to "more media and choices."
A complex interface requires an equally complex CMS, especially one that can track reviews, approvals, and copyright issues of "trusted source" material.
So that's what I'm toying with, a universal interface with a data-driven backend for museums of science, art, industry, and culture: MOSAIC.
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Hello, I like your thinking a lot and the mobile app too. I've been involved since 1995 in mobile interpretive technologies http://4274design.com/mobile_intro.html
and have come to think the word museum itself is getting out of date.
While there is no good substitute for it, I've coined the term interpretopia to mean the virtual and physical "space" that interpretation takes place within, whether it's an exhibit drawer, a museum, a watershed, or the universe.
In this concept, the Open Museum is one source node of information in a layer of museums. Advertisers or facilitators are nodes in other layers that are available to users as needed.
The complexity arises in designing an interface to make it accessible without too many clicks. I have always thought that to keep granny as happy as geek-kid, the interface needs modes ranging from "easy but pushy" to "more media and choices."
A complex interface requires an equally complex CMS, especially one that can track reviews, approvals, and copyright issues of "trusted source" material.
So that's what I'm toying with, a universal interface with a data-driven backend for museums of science, art, industry, and culture: MOSAIC.
--Scott
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