1. Integrated Digital Museum Framework Joshua, Jen-Shin, Hong Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering

2. Outline Experiences on digital museum development Issues of digital museum framework Demo: a proto-type system implementation Future work

3. Projects Digital museum development –1998 : The Digital Museum of Butterflies of Taiwan –2000 : The Lanyu Digital Museum –2001 : Ali Mountain and Tsou culture Digital Museum Technology development –2002 : National Digital Archive Project (technology development)

4. Phase 1: The Butterfly Digital Museum (1998) What is an digital museum - started “blindly” Propose possible functions for DM –Exhibition –Digital Archive –Interactive educational games –Personalization –Courseware –FAQ –…

5. Image Retrieval to identify butterfly specie

6. Archiving: XML

7. Exhibition: SMIL

8. Edutaining – 2D

9. Edutaining – 3D

10. Some thoughts Major modules of digital museum proposed –Media object archive –Textual/content-based image retrieval –Online exhibition –Education/entertaining games What is missing: –integrations –proper interface between different modules –proper workflow –knowledge/data interpretability –long term data and function preservation mechanism

11. Phase 2: The Lanyu Digital Museum (2001) Multi-domain : culture, plant, geology (stone, mineral), animal (insect, reptile)

12. Integrate archive and exhibition manufacture exhibitions from multimedia object archive Dynamic combination between exhibition content and exhibition appearance –Half-automation exhibition content editing –Archive management Produce different styles for different users hardware Capacities,bandwidth,browser Easy to re-arrange an existing exhibition to accommodate different user need

13. Approach Raw Data Multimedia Object Archive Exhibition Element Exhibition Script Exhibition Element Exhibition Element XML composing XSL Exhibition Element Exhibition Element

14. Workflow Differentiate an exhibition script to a group of interlinked “exhibition elements” Use an XML document to convey the content of an exhibition element Use XSL documents to present exhibition elements Use RDBMS to manage the structured XML documents, media objects, hyperlinks Using XML/XSL, how far can it go for multimedia- demanded digital museum exhibition?

15. Image Archives

16. Integrate exhibition and media archive

17. XML document for exhibition element Title Description text XSL document Multimedia objects Links to other exhibition elements

18. Switching the presentation style of an exhibition element using XSLs

19. Phase 3: The Ali-mountain Digital Museum (2001) Perspective from content expert

20. Fairy Tales Perspective from content expert

21. Lessons learned System integration –Exhibition vs. media archive Work Flow Technology application A more robust document model for an exhibition element –Detailed block-based specifications of the textual and media objects –Fine-grained synchronization between complex media objects presentations –Partially/totally presentation independent? More sophisticated XSL authoring tools –Modularized, reusable web media-effect generator