Foulonneau, Muriel

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GSLIS 2006 Museums and information technologiesMuriel Foulonneau (mfoulonn@uiuc.edu) Grainger Engineering LibraryUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignDigital Library Research Lab. May 2006May, 2006mfoulonn@uiuc.eduUniversity of Illinois at UC 2Several topics of interest Visitors at the center of the museum information system Digitization of sound archives Multilingual access to heritage material Some thoughts about the future?May, 2006mfoulonn@uiuc.eduUniversity of Illinois at UC 3Participation of museums visitorsMay, 2006mfoulonn@uiuc.eduUniversity of Illinois at UC 4Street art exhibitionMay, 2006mfoulonn@uiuc.eduUniversity of Illinois at UC 5Experiencehttp://hiphoponline.fr/http://jpadalbera.free.fr/hiphop/expo.htmMay, 2006mfoulonn@uiuc.eduUniversity of Illinois at UC 6Virtual and real environments The Pong Mythos exhibition A set of emulatorsMay, 2006mfoulonn@uiuc.eduUniversity of Illinois at UC 7User contributions eStage and the European pupetteers Community driven museumsMay, 2006mfoulonn@uiuc.eduUniversity of Illinois at UC 8The visitor’s experience as a contribution The CHIMER project  A geo-heritage gameMay, 2006mfoulonn@uiuc.eduUniversity of Illinois at UC 9Children document their favorite placesMay, 2006mfoulonn@uiuc.eduUniversity of Illinois at UC 10Monitoring the user experienceMay, 2006mfoulonn@uiuc.eduUniversity of Illinois at UC 11Customer Relationship Management Subscription-based applications Eg. SCRAN Following user behaviors on the museums Website National Museum of Australia=> monitoring list of friends=> donators=> information requests / reservations etc Phone orientation systems Various actors of an exhibition / event => predicting future opportunities =>More efficient interactions with visitors and contributorsMay, 2006mfoulonn@uiuc.eduUniversity of Illinois at UC 12The visit Before the visit Discovering Planning During the visit  Navigating (PDA etc) Interacting Creating After the visit Getting something back Maintaining a relationship?May, 2006mfoulonn@uiuc.eduUniversity of Illinois at UC 13Planning a vistMay, 2006mfoulonn@uiuc.eduUniversity of Illinois at UC 14User ProfilesMay, 2006mfoulonn@uiuc.eduUniversity of Illinois at UC 15Various levels of analysis Eg. A Closer lookhttp://www.louvre.fr/llv/dossiers/liste_oal.jspMay, 2006mfoulonn@uiuc.eduUniversity of Illinois at UC 16Modifying the role of visitors Customization of  The relation to the museum The visit User is both a user and a contributor Collective experiences Creative experiences Museum is the place of collective memory  collective storytellingMay, 2006mfoulonn@uiuc.eduUniversity of Illinois at UC 17Digitization of sound recordingsMay, 2006mfoulonn@uiuc.eduUniversity of Illinois at UC 18Digitization of sound recordings A strategic report Sound is neglected  A lot of endangered material Costs more to digitize No appropriate inventories No appropriate means of reading them Ethnography: music and talks, regional or from abroad Museums and regional societies, associations for regional heritage Sound heritage – music, atmosphere … Archives Oral history RadioMay, 2006mfoulonn@uiuc.eduUniversity of Illinois at UC 19Research activities around sound records Preservation Duration of media Music composition / retrieval / representation / tagging / advance browsing interfaces DRM Automatic indexingMay, 2006mfoulonn@uiuc.eduUniversity of Illinois at UC 20A portal for sound recordings 2000 hours on CD Roms Database access? How to make sound recordings available?May, 2006mfoulonn@uiuc.eduUniversity of Illinois at UC 21A portal for sound recordings In collaboration with IRCAM Issues: availability of the curator and IPRhttp://www.archison-culture.fr.eu.org/sdx-ircam/planson/May, 2006mfoulonn@uiuc.eduUniversity of Illinois at UC 22Partial or total transcription of talkMay, 2006mfoulonn@uiuc.eduUniversity of Illinois at UC 23Documentation of music and instrumentsMay, 2006mfoulonn@uiuc.eduUniversity of Illinois at UC 24Multiple partitionsMay, 2006mfoulonn@uiuc.eduUniversity of Illinois at UC 25Score of one particular instrumentMay, 2006mfoulonn@uiuc.eduUniversity of Illinois at UC 26 Multilingual access to heritage applicationsMay, 2006mfoulonn@uiuc.eduUniversity of Illinois at UC 27Some issues Understanding the query Identifying the language Various alphabets Representing / storing the content Unicode Multilingual search 2 strategies for full text Multilingual thesauri Returning a meaningful snippet Attempt with Babylon for TEL Returning a meaningful document Better if images Additional comments etcMay, 2006mfoulonn@uiuc.eduUniversity of Illinois at UC 28Querying a system A single interface to query a multilingual database An interface to query in a different language if no access to a device to perform query in the target language The system must identify the languageMay, 2006mfoulonn@uiuc.eduUniversity of Illinois at UC 29Thesauri – some difficulties Cultural concepts How many languages??TTTTMay, 2006mfoulonn@uiuc.eduUniversity of Illinois at UC 30Multilingual thesaurus: a collaborative work Inventaire in France Catalogo (ICCU) in ItalyMay, 2006mfoulonn@uiuc.eduUniversity of Illinois at UC 31MACs: Multilingual searchhttp://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/mrt/numerisation/fr/eeurope/minerva_031003.htmLCSHSWDB n F  database BL  database  RAMEAU L CSHRAMEAUMACSS N L   databaseMACSD D B  databaseSWDSlide Elisabeth Freyre, French National LibraryMay, 2006mfoulonn@uiuc.eduUniversity of Illinois at UC 32MACs: query expansionLCSHSWD B n FdatabaseB LdatabaseRAMEAU L CSHRAMEAUMACSMACSS N LdatabaseD D BdatabaseSWDhttp://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/mrt/numerisation/fr/eeurope/minerva_031003.htmSlide Elisabeth Freyre, French National LibraryMay, 2006mfoulonn@uiuc.eduUniversity of Illinois at UC 33Towards a terminology serviceAmateur theaterAmateur theaterShadow showsStreet theaterLaienspielL iebhabertheaterSchattenspielStrassentheaterBase  B LRAMEAUL CSHT héâtre d’amateursT héâtre d’amateursT héâtre d’ombresT héâtre de rueMACSBaseS N LMACSBase D D BSWDSlide Elisabeth Freyre, French National Libraryhttp://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/mrt/numerisation/fr/eeurope/minerva_031003.htmMay, 2006mfoulonn@uiuc.eduUniversity of Illinois at UC 34Searching multilingual information Full text search is a meta-search Translating documents or query Thesaurus and ontologiesQueryDocumentsMay, 2006mfoulonn@uiuc.eduUniversity of Illinois at UC 35Translation of records or snippets for display Mostly manual Several services allow on the fly translation Eg attempt with Babylon for The European LibraryMay, 2006mfoulonn@uiuc.eduUniversity of Illinois at UC 36A metadata record<oai_dc:dc xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd" xmlns="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/">  <title>Raznoshchitsa Kalendarei i Zhurnalov. Une femme vendant des Calendriers et des Journaux. Ein Weib welches Kalender und Journale herumträgt.</title>     <source>Volshebnoi fonar'</source>   <description>Image was captured using Epson ### scanner and SilverFast import utility in Adobe Photoshop 6. Scanned at 42->24 Bit Colour at 300 dpi. No archival images were created, but access images were created as JPEGs with quality of 0.</description>   <rights>Contact the owner of the material for copyright information. If you have comments relating to this record, please contact the Slavic and East European Library, http://www.library.uiuc.edu/spx/.</rights>   <identifier>http://images.library.uiuc.edu:8081/u?/RussianPublics,31</identifier> </oai:dc>=> Using xml:langMay, 2006mfoulonn@uiuc.eduUniversity of Illinois at UC 37Multilingual retrievalhttp://dis.shef.ac.uk/mark/demos/Eurovision/Eurovision-church-tree.htmMay, 2006mfoulonn@uiuc.eduUniversity of Illinois at UC 38Translations ambiguitieshttp://dis.shef.ac.uk/mark/Clarity-flash/space_shuttle.htmMay, 2006mfoulonn@uiuc.eduUniversity of Illinois at UC 39http://dis.shef.ac.uk/mark/demos/CiQuest/eglise.htmBrowsing resultsMay, 2006mfoulonn@uiuc.eduUniversity of Illinois at UC 40Co-occurences and content-based clusteringClustersMay, 2006mfoulonn@uiuc.eduUniversity of Illinois at UC 41Localizing a Website For international audience Eg touristic impact For minorities Localization is not translation Cultural elements depend onMay, 2006mfoulonn@uiuc.eduUniversity of Illinois at UC 42Differences Web exposure effect Bandwidth Richness of hyperlinks  Designer exposure Usage of icons instead of text, usage of sound etc General complexity of Webpage structure Colors Red – green and yellow for Spain, Grey – green and blue in France, white and grey in Germany Work with layers Texts in Spanish tend to be longer than in EnglishMay, 2006mfoulonn@uiuc.eduUniversity of Illinois at UC 43Several issues with multilingual systems Sometimes term translation is impossible Culture Names Source language is unknown There is no direct path from source to target language Translation is not equivalent (eg summaries) Maintaining terminology services Information systems to handle multiple alphabets / transliterations Localization is not translation“North Street, St. Andrews”May, 2006mfoulonn@uiuc.eduUniversity of Illinois at UC 44 ConclusionsMay, 2006mfoulonn@uiuc.eduUniversity of Illinois at UC 45Using heritage to develop technologies IST program more and more oriented towards  Contextualization User experience and involvement Technologies mostly used in the museum domain: GIS, 3D, virtual environments … Complex and non textual objects Digicult approach How technologies can be used in the heritage field => most of the time, it applies technologies developed in other contexts => BUT an illustration, a resource for testing and improving technologies etcMay, 2006mfoulonn@uiuc.eduUniversity of Illinois at UC 46From digital libraries to heritage applications How do you integrate the experience?  Story telling Representation of material Contextualization Interactions with users and user as a contributor: community buildingMay, 2006mfoulonn@uiuc.eduUniversity of Illinois at UC 47The future of digital heritage‘Difficult to answer given that of late there appears to be the tendency to do it like the Americans and let technology lead design, not like Europeans in the past, particularly in Scandinavia, where design lead technology…’, Elizabeth Selandia – Art Historian, Member of VRA, USAStatements from the DigiCULT online consultationforum, October/November 2004May, 2006mfoulonn@uiuc.eduUniversity of Illinois at UC 48Ambient intelligence technologies ‘[…] making a door knob able to compute and communicate does not make it intelligent: the key (and challenge) to really adding wit to the environment lies in the way the system learns and keeps up to date with the needs of the user by itself.’ Jari AholaMay, 2006mfoulonn@uiuc.eduUniversity of Illinois at UC 49Some examples The thinking carpet - Infineon Technologies AG (Munich, Germany) The floor could re-organize itself to guide visitors “distributed browser approach” Philips Research MyLifeBits project by the Microsoft BARC Media Presence Group. I could “meet with my ancestors” Tourism in space and time: virtual environments Information pick up eg. in an exhibition Interfaces to create content: “words can be written in the air and are converted into a document format.” MicroInfinityMay, 2006mfoulonn@uiuc.eduUniversity of Illinois at UC 50Consequences for professionals Museum curators as scientists They build collections They tell stories based on those collections They attract visitorsMay, 2006mfoulonn@uiuc.eduUniversity of Illinois at UC 51Museum informatics Information system Administration Collections management Experience Improve the experience of a visit Discovery Sharing collections and building a Website Science Researching museum objectsMay, 2006mfoulonn@uiuc.eduUniversity of Illinois at UC 52Particular usage of technologies The experience Virtual environments Haptic interfaces GIS=> conveying the experience through entertainment, eg. Video games Administration Collaboration Including inventories CRM Contributive model (?)May, 2006mfoulonn@uiuc.eduUniversity of Illinois at UC 53Particular usage of technologies Discovery Quality: Authentication of information sources Selected pieces Relations to different networks: Culture, Tourism and Education Content sharing How do you represent my content? Research Describing: not for public use Few things to read: particular interest of multilingual technologies Finding relations between works: Content based analysis is a primary methodology in art history but also in history => create my own exhibitionMay, 2006mfoulonn@uiuc.eduUniversity of Illinois at UC 54References Chimer http://www.chimer.org Portal for sound recording http://www.archison-culture.fr.eu.org/sdx-ircam/planson Digicult info Thematic Issue 7: The Future Digital Heritage Space, December 2004 http://www.digicult.info/pages/Themiss.php Hip hop online http://hiphoponline.fr/ Seminar on Access to multilingual heritage resourceshttp://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/mrt/numerisation/fr/eeurope/minerva_031003.htm

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