1. Al-Sulaiti Online Museum
Brandon Nilsson
MS GIS Program
University of Redlands

2. Outline Project Background Project Goal Project Objective
Data Provided
Solution and Requirements
Application Development

3. Background Mohammed Al-Sulaiti
Has been collecting artifacts throughout his life
Building a Museum

4. Museums Large collections with only certain items on display.
Websites only give a broad overview of what is on display.
Collection can only be seen at the museum grounds.

5. Past Works Nation Museum of the American Indian Virtual Smithsonian
Uses Prompts to guide the user
3D rooms which contain artifacts
Low resolution but accessible on most internet connections
Virtual Smithsonian
User guided tour of museum wings
Uses audio, video, and pictures to educate
Requires high speed internet connection

6. The Goal
Help Mohammed Al-Sulaiti reach a broader audience.

7. Artifact Information Adobe PDF and Microsoft Word Documents. Contents:
Artifact name
Nation of origin
Description
Year bought/found
Picture

8. Web Museum

9. Project Design ArcMap 10.1 ArcServer 10.1 with SDE
ArcGIS Flex API & Flash Builder

10. Conceptual Model

11. Logical Model

12. ArcServer SDE Geodatabase

13. Web Services
Feature Service
Map Service

14. Implementation Data preparation Map and feature service creation
Developing the applications
Functions of the applications

15. Data Preparation Artifact Nation Description Year Artifact Info Files
TM-Worlds
Nation
Latitude
Longitude
Exported data as a CSV file
Image source:

16. Feature Classes

17. Feature Service

18. Map Service

19. Web Development Tools
Adobe Flex, Action Script, and ArcGIS API for Flex with Flash Builder.

20. Web Museum Navigation Buttons: Geocoder: Continent Searching:
Login & Logout:
Basemap Toggle:

21. Map Symbology Public Point clustering and coloring
Private Point clustering and coloring

22. Login Service Uses Extensible Markup Language (XML) files
Very Customizable
Able to be stepped through with code

23. Login Service

24. Feature Editor Add public or private points
Mouse location before and after clicking

25. Mouse Location Changed from following the cursor
Creates a transparent map point to record latitude and longitude

26. Results Public View Editor Application Public and private map services
Info windows
Queried layers displayed in a datagrid
Login and logout changes view
Editor Application
Points added to separate feature classes through services

27. Summary Created a geodatabase. Created feature classes.
Published services.
Learned Adobe Flex
Developed a web application.

28. Thanks