1. Museum Digital Guide & Administration System
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Nick Ionita
11/24/2018

2. Presentation Roadmap My Background Office Composition
My Role within IBM
Vision for the Project
My Role within the Project
Project High Level Overview
System Interaction
Process Drill Down
Results
Questions
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3. My Background Nick Ionita Education Currently working for IBM
July 2002 – October 2004: Marketing Analyst (American Integrated Marketing Communications)
October 2004 – Present: IT Specialist (IBM Global Services)
Education
B.B.A in Management Information Systems from Southern Methodist University
M.Sc in Information Systems from DePaul University
IS 540 Global Information Technology
IS 596: Topics in Information Systems- Brazil Case Study/Trip
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4. Office Composition Centers for IBM e-business Innovation
Focus on keeping all aspects of the project life cycle (project conception through delivery) “in-house”
Currently 4 Centers in the US: Chicago, DC, Boston, and Atlanta
Chicago center houses every role from Managing Partner (the people working the sales teams/consultants to have contracts signed), to IT Architects, Developers, Information Architects, Graphic Designers, Business Analysts, and Project Managers
Once a contract is signed the Center handles the delivery of the agreed upon solution
Primarily focus on Web-based/e-business solutions for multiple industries
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5. My Role within IBM IT Specialist “Jack of all trades”
Work is project dependent and can involve:
Project conception and requirements gathering meetings with Clients and Project Managers
Project design and analysis with IT Architects
GUI design and development meetings with Information Architects & Usability Experts
Physical and Logical database design meetings with Database Architects/Developers
Solution planning and development
Testing and maintenance/support follow up work (contract dependent)
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6. Vision for the Project What did they want?... And what did we do?
Museum had just undergone an $858M renovation
Great focus was put on integrating technology seamlessly within the building and it’s exhibits; blending art and technology
IBM had installed and deployed the museum's infrastructure for their wired/wireless network and audiovisual system
IBM had sold a great deal of hardware and had included a deal for services which was given to my office
Chicago Innovation Center (and several partners) had recently successfully completed a Digital Guide/Web-based project involving museums/archeological sites in Egypt
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7. Vision for the Project Museum’s Goals:
The idea was to leverage what was learned from the Digital Guide portion of the Eternal Egypt project and build a new system from the ground up for one the museum’s new exhibits that would be on show upon it’s grand re-opening
IBM Goals:
Deliver a solution that meets the client’s expectations and gives us the potential for further work with the client in the future
Build an updated version of the Museum Digital Guide System that not only could be used at the current client (museum) but with future clients after minimal cosmetic and data changes
Museum’s Goals:
Deliver a seamlessly integrated multimedia experience for visitors
Collect demographic information on visitors and data on their digital guide tour activity (what parts of the exhibit they spent time at, and for how long)
Utilize current technologies to set a benchmark for future museum offerings to be compared to; want to lead the push for “modernization” in museums
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8. My Role within the Project
Acting as Developer
I came onto the project right after development had started
Project conception and design were already complete
Development was split in two halves:
Flash based development for the Digital Guide Tour to be run on Toshiba Pocket PCs (PDAs)
Java based development for the Administration System to be run on a laptop at a desk where the Digital Guides would be checked out/in
I worked on the development of the Administration portion of the system
Developed within J2EE Struts framework
The Administration system handled checking in/out guides, collecting user demographics for reporting, logging in/out users and visitors, and tracking the status of each digital guide
Since the system was small we used a laptop at the museum as the server, data store, and point of connection for the Digital Guides
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9. Project High Level Overview
User
Visitor
Demographic Info
Log In Info
Report Request
Digital Guide
Issued
Museum Digital Guide System
Digital Guide
Returned
Report
Digital Guide Status Updates
User/Visitor/Tour
Data
System Database
User- Museum Staff
Visitor- Museum Customer
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10. System Interaction Visitor Data Store Tour Data Store User Data Store
First time visitor demographic info
Exhibit Stop
Info
User Data Store
User Log in Info 1
User Log In 4
Digital Guide Tour 3
Visitor Log In
Visitor Trip Data
Guide Issued/ Tour Started
Visitor Info
Role
Permissions
Guide Returned/ Trip Data Retrieved 2
Administration Home Page
Verification 5
Visitor Log Out
Report Request
Visitor Log Out Verification
Report
Guide Updates/ Additions/Comments/Status Changes 6
Report Generation
Guide Status 7
Digital Guide Status Update
Guide Info
Requested Data
Guide Data Store
Request
Tour Data Store
Guide Data Store
Visitor Data Store
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11. Process Drill Down Process 4: Digital Guide Tour Exhibit Data Store
Exhibit Activated/Selected
Request
Exhibit Activated/Selected
4.2
Exhibit Viewed
Guide Issued
4.1
Tour Started
4.4
Tour Ended
Guide Returned
Tour Ended
Tour Restarted
Exhibit Info and View Time
Tour Ended
Tour Restarted
4.3
Tour Stop Recorded
Visitor Trip Data
Tour Data Store
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12. Results Project was delivered on time for museum’s grand reopening
Digital Guide System ran successfully for the duration of the exhibits showing
Complications:
Issues with the current audio/visual media vendor and their relationship with the museum created display and placement problems
Since this was viewed as a pilot for the museum, it was discontinued after the exhibit ended showing
Future Outlook:
The Digital Guide system created has now been used as a building block for future projects
Many museums both in the US and abroad are looking to IBM to potentially utilize this particular system
Possibility for the creation of a Content Management System to allow the museum to create their own tours to be added to the system
Enhanced functionality could be added for alerts, directions, and web interaction (review or create a tour from home)
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13. Questions
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