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FC2 Content Expert
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TUC 2
Content Expert
Introduction

• This e-course is organized through Training Unit
  able to be Capitalized (TUC) which can be
  segmented into Didactic Unit (D.U.) and Learning
  Object (L.O).
• In order to understand the ratio behind the
  organization of this e-course those, notice that
• each T.U.C. involves several educational goals,
  which sum up to the basic skills of a
  web-designer for virtual museums
• each D.U. discusses one single educational goal
  through several topics
• each L.O identifies one single topic. All L.O
  together compose the whole e-course.

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TUC 2
DU 2 Description of MU.S.EU.M. Identity Card
DU 3 The database hints
DU 4 Internet and virtual museums
DU 1 Virtual museums why?

• LO 3.1 Basic Elements for the Creation of
  Interactiveand Dynamic Websites
• LO 3.2 Databases
• LO 3.3 The relational model
• LO 3.4 Management Systems of Relational Databases

• LO 4.1 The Publication of Data on the Internet
• LO 4.2 3D Software Object Modeller
• LO 4.3 VR Worx 2.5
• LO 4.4 PhotoModeler
• LO 4.5 Pixmaker PRO

• LO 2.1 Contents and utilities

• LO 1.1 Virtual museum objectives and
  characteristics
• LO 1.2 Personalisation of the virtual museum
  and accessibility

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Virtual museums why?
DU 1

• This D.U. is crucial for the whole training. It
  is aimed at the main characteristics and
  advantages of virtual museums with particular
  emphasis on the possibility to attract a larger
  interest through friendly and pro-active visits.

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Virtual museum objectives and characteristics
L 0 1.1 Abstract

• The virtual museum consists of an organized
  collection of electronic artifacts and
  informational resources. The collection might be
  composed of pictures, diagrams, graphics, video
  clips, articles, numerical databases and other
  items which can be stored in the virtual museum.
  In addition, access may be gained to some of the
  main art-resources collected in most important
  museums around the world.
• A separating line may be drawn between two
  virtual museums types
• cultural museums are built for educational
  purposes. They offer opportunities for deep
  researches and explorations about art-resources
  around the world. This service is mostly
  user-oriented.
• commercial museums are usually aimed at the
  advertisement of art-resources stored in existing
  museums around the world. This service is
  museum-oriented.

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Personalisation of the virtual museum and
accessibility
L 0 1.2 Abstract

• E-services, unlike physical services are
  characterised by their configurability to
  customise the service towards the precise demands
  of the individual. In this sense, e-services
  mirror the mass customisation processes currently
  enjoying success in manufacturing.
• In a virtual museum, instead of a curator
  dictating a route and points of interest, the
  virtual visitor is able to prescribe his/her own
  tour and to choose a deeper interrogation of
  those artefacts of most interest. In short
  visitors can create on own exhibition,
  emphasising those multimedia modalities they
  prefer.
• From this viewpoint, museums shift from
  supply-driven to becoming demand-led, from
  categorising potential visitors into sets towards
  individual customisation and from generic
  marketing to one-to-one viral marketing.

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Personalisation of the virtual museum and
accessibility
L 0 1.2 Abstract

• Of course, patterns of usage tend to occur in all
  e-services whether the result of habit or
  predispositions to particular areas of interest
  or modalities of delivery. Cherri, Paternò and
  Piras ( from 2003) in the Museum of Carrara,
  suggest that visitors often fall into one of
  three sets experts, tourists and children. It
  may be useful to hypothesise how each of these
  targets may use a virtual museum.
• Experts may particular wish to use tools
  supporting thematic and trans-disciplinary
  searches, coupled to 3D applications and digital
  reconstruction a high degree of configurability
  and informed choice.
• Tourists (who are not experts) may prefer a
  recommend table dhote rather than al a carte and
  prefer limited configurability more intuitive
  choices using readily understood narratives
  explaining the context of artefacts.
• Children (some of whom may be experts and/or
  tourists) may prefer edutaiment or chatbox
  modalities, or exhibitions featuring games
  designed to stimulate curiosity.

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Issues on virtual museums targets
L 0 1.2 Case studies

• a) COMPASS Database of British Museum
• Childrens COMPASS uses a search engine designed
  for children, which is both easy to use and
  attractive (Alfred the Lion guides children
  through the site). Apart from the childrens
  tours and the articles written for 7-11 year old
  pupils, there are also classroom activities and
  quizzes, as well as an Ask the Expert facility.
  The online tours are specially written to cover
  topics from the UK National Curriculum, including
  Literacy, Numeracy, Science and Art as well as
  History. There are also examples of childrens
  work, online animations, games and puzzles, web
  links and reading lists. In addition to the
  online tours, there is also a Search engine that
  allows children to look for information from the
  following areas Africa, the Americas,
  Anglo-Saxon England, Asia, Ancient Egypt, Europe,
  Ancient Greece and Roman Britain.

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Issues on virtual museums targets
L 0 1.2 Case studies

• Childrens COMPASS was planned so that children
  with disabilities could use it as well. The
  worksheets have a set of teaching suggestions for
  how they may be adapted, both for children with
  learning difficulties, as well as for those who
  need extension activities.
• For those with reading difficulties, there is
  software available for reading the text on
  childrens COMPASS aloud.
• The site has been designed and evaluated by the
  New Media Unit at the British Museum, in
  consultation with local primary schools and with
  the advice and assistance of the Museum Education
  Department.

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Issues on virtual museums targets
L 0 1.2 Case studies

• b) Tate Galleries
• The website can serve as a tool for public
  education both in schools and at home. The Tate
  Learning section includes the following
  categories kids and family (with games,
  activities and inspiration for kids), schools and
  teachers, young Tate (new perspectives about
  modern and contemporary art for teenagers and
  young people), independent learning, community
  groups and outreach.
• The section is home to an active academic program
  that supports students of all ages and areas for
  educators, teachers, artist and many others. For
  educators and students, there are a number of,
  in-service programs, games, classroom activities,
  The Schools Online section contains a wealth of
  material, including photographic and documentary
  sources for teachers. It is designed to help
  educators to use the Internet to support the
  teaching of the most significant elements of
  history of art. Tate Online launched a number of
  online courses, providing users with an
  introduction to modern art.

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Description of MU.S.EU.M. Identity Card
DU 2

• This D.U. explains basic aspects of the standard
  record for cataloguing as created through
  M.U.S.E.U.M. The training programmer of this unit
  is particularly meaningful since, for the first
  time, 7 European museums agreed on basic criteria
  for the identification of the identikit card.
• The objectives of this D.U. are
• to apprehend classificatory rules for the
  M.U.S.E.U.M. objects
• to be able to identify the communicative value of
  each cultural resource
• to be able to schedule training paths for
  specific categories of visitors.

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Contents and utilities
LO 2.1 Abstract

• MU.S.EU.M. Identity Card resulted after
  presenting a template to all project partners and
  asking for their opinions and suggestions. This
  Identity Card can be filled in by every partner,
  regardless of the recording system they use at
  the moment.
• Some of these data are absolutely necessary and
  could be filled in from the primary records of
  each partner museum. They have been selected in
  the data fill-in form from the European Virtual
  Museum website Figure 2 (www.europeanvirtualmuse
  um.it).
• The special and/or complementary data, which
  could be inserted as far as they exist or in the
  course of research, have Arabic numerals attached
  when they appear in the fields of the Identity
  card. These could be added in a website that can
  be accessed by anyone on the Internet.
• Taken as a whole, the Identity card, i.e. the
  fields comprised here, is comprehensive enough to
  store, if necessary, other general or detailed
  data. Further on, there are the basic elements
  necessary to create dynamic and interactive
  websites, starting from the system analysis of
  the contents of the MU.S.EU.M. Identity Card.

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The M.U.S.E.U.M Identity Card
LO 2.1 Detail
This is the mask to compile, how it appears to
users. The models of compilation are two a) a
synthetic model with essential data b) an
analytical one with all data of identity card.

• The final content of the Identity Card is
  presented in Figure 1.

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The M.U.S.E.U.M Identity Card
LO 2.1 Practice

• Apply to a specific object from your museum - not
  classified yet the MU.SE.U.M. IDENTITY CARD as
  reported in the next page.

MU.SE.U.M. IDENTITY CARD
Image 1 (whole object) Image 2 (significant
detail) Drawing
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The M.U.S.E.U.M Identity Card
LO 2.1 Practice
MUSEUM, DEPARTMENT NAME OF THE
ARTEFACT INVENTORY NUMBER OBJECT TYPE10 -Human
figurine -Animal figurine -Vessel -Other
? ? ? ?
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The M.U.S.E.U.M Identity Card
LO 2.1 Practice
DISCOVERY PLACE AND DATE Date MATERIAL/ALLOY3 ME
THOD OF MANUFACTURE Country Additional
Material4 District DIMENSIONS Town hall
affiliation Length Width Heigth Thickness Diam
eter Weight ANALOGIES11 (200 words)
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The M.U.S.E.U.M Identity Card
LO 2.1 Practice
Village DESCRIPTION OF THE OBJECT5 (200 400
words) Discovery Findspot DISCOVERY
CONTEXT -Chance discovery -Survey
-Archaeological excavation -Unknown
? ? ? DECORATION6 (200 300 words) (no
decoration ? incision ? excision ? application
in relief ?)
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The M.U.S.E.U.M Identity Card
LO 2.1 Practice
INSCRIPTION (100 words)7 DISTINCTIVE
MARK Video-audio-textual documentation12 -Paintin
gs, drawings, photographs -Recordings -Transcripts
of interviews -Links to information resources
and databases around the world DISCOVERY
TYPE -Household -Sanctuary -Other
? ? ? INTERPRETATION8 (200 400 words) -
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The M.U.S.E.U.M Identity Card
LO 2.1 Practice
CULTURAL FRAMING Age/Period MU.S.EU.M. THEMATIC
ROUTES9 -Amulets and magic items (AM) -Human
figure (HF) -Animal Imago (AI) -Other - Culture/
Complex/Group Phase/Cultural stage Absolute
chronology PRESERVATION STATE (very good ?
good ? poor ?) RESTORATION (restored ? not
restored ?)
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The M.U.S.E.U.M Identity Card
LO 2.1 Practice
COMPLETENESS (complete ? almost complete?
incomplete?) ANALYSES DETERMINATIONS Analysis
Type Laboratory No./Code BIBLIOGRAPHIC
REFERENCES2 -Author -Title -Periodical -Volume -T
ome -Publishing House -Place -Year -Page -Figure
-Plate -Table -ISBN -ISSN
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The M.U.S.E.U.M Identity Card
LO 2.1 Practice
Other resources FILLED IN BY -Name -Institution -
Date Figure 1
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The database hints
DU 3

• This D.U. gives to the Content Expert basic
  information about the characteristics of
  relational databases by which virtual museums can
  be constructed. The main objective consists of
  making the Content Expert able to understand the
  main technological requirements behind the
  relational database and to make him/her able to
  communicate profitably with the web-designer.
• Then, objectives might be worthily formalized as
  follows
• to improve the communication with the
  web-designer who is the one entitled to data
  uploading
• to know the basic structure of the database and
  how to elaborate queries.

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Basic Elements for the Creation of Interactive
and Dynamic Websites
LO 3.1 Abstract

• In the development of the European Virtual Museum
  the use of a RDBMS (Relational DataBase
  Management System) is compulsory, due to the
  complexity of data necessary for the complete
  description of objects it contains and also due
  to the need for the information to be always
  updated by specialists of museums.
• The existence of such RDBMS Databases allows the
  registration of all general and special
  information referring to objects presently
  suggested by partners (museums, research
  institutes etc.) or completed step by step.
  Moreover, these databases together with the
  multimedia files can offer supplementary packages
  of special information referring to other
  archaeological objects research and
  archaeological sites in the area museums or
  general or specialized museum collections
  historical monuments and / or special cultural
  objects useful data and addresses for
  transportation, accommodation, and visitation of
  cultural and tourist objectives virtual shop
  (reproductions/copies).

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Databases
LO 3.2 Abstract

• The models and techniques of organizing databases
  have developed in such a way that they satisfy
  the needs of users to have a faster and easier
  access to a larger amount of information.
• Shortly, the concept of a database can be defined
  as being one or more collections of
  interdependent organized data, together with the
  description of the data and the relation between
  them.
• Relational databases refer to a collection of
  data, structured as tables called relations. The
  term relational comes from the fact that each
  registration in the database contains information
  referring to a single subject. Moreover, the data
  organized in categories of information can be
  manoeuvred by a single entity, based on values of
  associated data.

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Main objectives of a Databases
LO 3.2 Detail

• In the following box main database objectives are
  reported.

• Centralization of data
• Independence between data and application
  programmes
• The possibility of connecting data entities
• The integrity of data
• Security of data
• The confidentiality of data
• The division of data

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Fundamental objectives of a Databases
LO 3.2 Practice

• In the following box some database objectives are
  reported. Indicate main advantages in the right
  column.

RDBMS advantages Weight Explain
dynamic web-editing
on-line query and data management
data access through browsers
customize websites
on-line protection
compatibility with any browser
minimize website traffic
For a better understanding of this topic,
associate weights to each of the RDBMS
advantages reported below. Use (), () and
() in order to indicate low, medium and high
relevance respectively. Explains the main
rationale behind your choice in the last column.
Finally, discuss your choices with your
colleagues.
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The relational model
LO 3.3 Abstract

• The data and relations are explicitly
  represented, using a logical structure called
  relation. On the other hand, the relational model
  was mathematically defined, providing a modern
  means of studying the logical properties of a
  database system.
• The components of the relational model are
• the relational structure of data.
• the operators of the relational model.
• integrity restrictions of the relational model.

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Story of relational model
LO 3.3 Detail

• The relational model was defined and published
  for the first time in 1970 by Dr. Edgar F. Codd,
  a researcher at the IBM laboratories from San
  Jose (California), who published his works
  referring to the relational model for databases.
• This relational model has the advantage that it
  allows the designer of the database to study the
  properties of the managing system of the database
  without being forced to implement it. The
  theoretical fundament of this kind of a database
  is represented by the mathematical theory of
  relations.
• One of the main characteristics of the relational
  model is its simplicity and strictness from a
  theoretical point of view, a fact that placed it
  before other models, being adopted within the
  last decade by the majority of researchers and
  programmers in the field.

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Tate Gallerys website
LO 3.3 Case studies

• The mission of the Tate Gallerys website is to
  foster within society an awareness, understanding
  and involvement in the visual arts through
  policies and programmes which are excellent,
  innovative and inclusive.
• This website was created to facilitate access to
  information about history of art. Tate Online is
  the UK's most popular art website and it has,
  over the last years, won two BAFTAs, for online
  content and for innovation. In 2002 the site won
  both a prestigious BAFTA award for i-Map and the
  first ever London Tourism Award for Best
  Website. Then, in 2003, the Tate Gallerys
  website was awarded a second BAFTA, for the Best
  Online Factual site.
• The Tate Collection consists of over 65,000 works
  of art encompassing the national collection of
  historic British art from 1500, and the national
  collection of international modern art. As part
  of its digital activities, Tate has launched a
  long-term programme to provide greater access to
  the collection beyond the gallery walls. Tate has
  succeeded to complete the online displays of some
  of its strongest holdings.

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Tate Gallerys website
LO 3.3 Case studies

• Every item in the collection has its own
  information page and the majority are
  illustrated. Almost all available works in the
  Tate Collection have by now been captured,
  including the following main categories
• over 4,000 works in the national collection of
  British paintings dating from the sixteenth
  century to now
• over 1,500 sculptures from the late nineteenth
  century to the present day
• over 11,000 prints of all periods, including the
  nation's foremost study collection of modern
  British prints
• over 8,000 works on paper from all periods,
  including the magnificent Oppé Collection of
  historic English watercolours and an extensive
  group of 20th Century items
• the Turner watercolours with over 6,500 items,
  mainly from the Turner Bequest (the Turner
  Bequest comprises nearly 300 oil paintings and
  around 30,000 sketches and watercolours)
• the Turner sketches with over 25,000 studies,
  pencil drawings and sketchbook pages.

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Tate Gallerys website
LO 3.3 Case studies

• The subject index allows users to see different
  interpretations of the same subject, which in a
  collection as heterogeneous as Tates frequently
  joins very different items, which might never
  otherwise be seen together. The search engine
  includes
• the simple search provides searching about artist
  name and work title
• the advanced search artist name, work title,
  object type (block for printing installation, on
  paper, print on paper, unique painting relief
  sculpture), on display, accession no, artist
  birth date, work date
• the subject search with 16 categories
  group/movement abstraction architecture
  emotion, concepts and ideas history interiors
  leisure and pastimes literature and fiction
  nature objects people places religion and
  belief society symbols and personifications and
  work and occupations arranged in checkboxes

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Tate Gallerys website
LO 3.3 Case studies

• each category comprises few groups (between 2 and
  20)
• for example the architecture category includes
  agricultural architecture, bridges and viaducts,
  features, garden structures, industrial
  architecture, military, monuments, periods and
  styles, places of entertainment, public and
  municipal architecture, religious, residential,
  ruins, townscapes, man-made features
• a saved search feature.

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Management Systems of Relational Databases
LO 3.4 Abstract

• In order to reach the objectives for which it was
  created, a database must have an associated
  system of data management, which is the software
  of the database. Through the system of data
  management the following activities can be
  accomplished
• defining the structure of the database
  (organizing data in tables and their connection)
• introducing and modifying data
• fast access to data through different types of
  queries
• presentation of data as reports (listed on the
  screen or printed) in which the data resulted
  from queries are summarized
• security of data
• The main RDBMS which are the basis of dynamic and
  interactive Web pages
• Oracle (www.oracle.com
• Microsoft SQL Server (www.microsoft.com/sql/)
• Microsoft Access (www.office.microsoft.com/en-us/d
  efault.aspx
• MySQL (www.mysql.com)

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Internet and virtual museums
DU 4

• This D.U. gives to the Content Expert basic
  information about the characteristics of
  relational databases by which virtual museums can
  be constructed. The main objective consists of
  making the Content Expert able to understand the
  main technological requirements behind the
  relational database and to make him/her able to
  communicate profitably with the web-designer.
• In particular, we focus on image uploading for
  the virtual museum. Images and graphics are a
  fundamental source of communication. 2D and
  especially 3D graphics are quickly becoming an
  integral part of dynamic, interactive web sites.
  Following is a description of some 3D graphics
  software currently available.
• The two objectives can be formalized as follows
• to improve the communication with the
  web-designer whos the one entitled to data
  uploading
• to apprehend how uploading information and images
  on the website.

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The Publication of Data on the Internet
L 0 4.1 Abstract

• For the creation of the Web site of the European
  Virtual Museum, the M.U.S.E.U.M. project used
  Microsoft Active Server Pages technology. Further
  on we are going to introduce the main elements
  that are part of this technology.
• HyperText Markup Language (HTML). One of the
  first fundamental elements of the WWW (World Wide
  Web) is HTML (HyperText Markup Language), a
  standard which describes the primary format in
  which the documents are being distributed and
  seen on the WEB. Many of its features, as the
  independence of the platform, the structuring of
  formatting and the hypertext connections, make it
  a very good format for documents published on the
  Internet.
• Active Server Pages (ASP) is a powerful
  instrument developed by Microsoft. An ASP file
  may contain text, HTML tags (markers) and
  scripts. The scripts in an ASP file will be
  executed by the server through IIS (Internet
  Information Server) which is part of Windows
  2000, Windows NT 4.0 (Option Pack) or PWS
  (Personal Web Server) in Windows 95-98.

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The Publication of Data on the Internet
L 0 4.1 Abstract

• ActiveX Data Objects (ADO). It is used to access
  a database through a WEB page. It was created by
  Microsoft and it is automatically installed at
  the same time with Microsoft IIS (Internet
  Information Server) package.
• Structured Query Language (SQL). It is an ANSI
  (American National Standards Institute) standard
  language used for the querying of MS Access, MS
  SQL Server, DB2, Informix, Oracle, Sybase
  databases etc. With the help of SQL we can make
  selection or action queries (adding, deleting and
  modifying registrations) upon databases.
• JavaScript. It is a programming language for WEB
  pages. It is used in many sites for improving
  their design, for the validation of some forms
  etc. It has been developed by Netscape and it is
  the most popular script language for the
  Internet. It is recognized by all popular
  browsers (navigators) from version 3.0 and more.
• The complete description of the Active Server
  Pages technology, and not only, can be found at
  www.w3school.com

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COMPASS, the Database of British Museum
L 0 4.1 Case studies

• COMPASS (Collections Multimedia Public Access
  System), first launched on the web in June 2000
  (www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/compass/index.htlm),
  is an online database featuring around 5,000
  objects chosen by curators to reflect the
  extraordinary range of the British Museums
  collection. The database has versions for both
  adults and children. Apart from the web, COMPASS,
  the Museums multimedia object database, is free
  to use and available to all Museum visitors on
  touch screens in the Reading Room. For each
  object, there is a short article written by a
  specialist and high quality images that can be
  enlarged and studied in detail. COMPASS was
  designed for easy browsing and there are links
  between objects, background information, as well
  as suggestions for further reading.
• The main COMPASS is very well organized and the
  search page has several facilities. Apart from
  the index search, users can also search for
  Places and Dates (information about objects from
  a particular place and time), and Galleries
  (information about some of the objects that are
  on display in any gallery in the British Museum).
  Furthermore, there are many useful links and
  background information about some of the object
  in the Museum. There may be articles about
  cultures, historical periods, specific places,
  archaeological sites, people, types of object,
  materials or techniques, as well as a number of
  images, such as maps or photographs.

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COMPASS, the Database of British Museum
L 0 4.1 Case studies

• Apart for the fact that each object featured is
  illustrated with high quality scalable images for
  detailed study, there is also plenty of
  information about the objects, as well as
  references and links to related objects. The
  database was designed for the general visitor and
  thus the information has been written
  accordingly. Therefore, technical terms are
  explained in glossary links and if one is
  interested in learning more about an item, most
  of the articles give references to books written
  or recommended by the Museums curators.
• The website is very accessible and users have the
  possibility to change the text size, style,
  colour and background colour. There is also a
  full text-only version of the COMPASS, which has
  been designed to ensure that the database is
  fully accessible with screen readers and speech
  synthesisers used by people with visual
  impairments (a link to the text-only version can
  be found nearly every page of the site). Thus,
  COMPASS was one of the six UK websites that were
  presented in December 2002 with Visionary Design
  Awards for their outstanding efforts in ensuring
  their websites are accessible to visually
  impaired people. These awards are part of a
  campaign by the National Library for the Blind to
  encourage website publishers and designers to
  consider access technology such as magnification,
  text-to-speech and refreshable Braille when they
  are designing their sites.

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COMPASS, the Database of British Museum
L 0 4.1 Case studies

• There was a complex team working on the COMPASS
  website a Project Manager (the head of the New
  Media), a Content Manager (responsible for the
  content on the site), an Imaging Manager
  (responsible for the images on the site), a
  Creative Editor (responsible for all the text), a
  Design Manager (responsible for the design of the
  site), an Access Officer (responsible for all
  access issues for the site), an Education editor
  (responsible for the editorial content on the
  childrens COMPASS site), an Imaging Assistant
  (helping the Imaging Manager and also HYML coding
  for some pages), a Support Officer
  (administration for COMPASS project), and I.S.
  Support (providing IT support for the project,
  though not full time on COMPASS alone). In
  addition, there were also Editorial Assistants to
  help with editing the text. The object
  texts/articles were written by curators and
  freelancers. A number of interns who worked for
  fixed periods of time (usually to compliment
  their studies) also contributed to the creation
  of this website. The technology for the site and
  delivering it to the web was provided by a
  company called System Simulation Ltd. (
  www.ssl.co.uk ). COMPASS uses their Index
  database software to create and manage the
  COMPASS content and to deliver it on the web and
  on the terminals in the Museum. System Simulation
  Ltd. worked closely with the COMPASS team and
  supplied the software architecture for the
  COMPASS project.

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3D Software Object Modeller
L 0 4.2 Abstract

• 3DSOM from Creative Dimension Software Ltd. is a
  fast, cost-effective software tool for generating
  photo-realistic 3D models from images of real
  objects, based on technology originally developed
  by Canon. With the 3DSOM Viewer Java applet,
  interactive plugin-free 3D content can easily be
  created for compelling e-commerce sites,
  eye-catching internet advertising, online museum
  exhibitions, and more. A fully customised 3D
  modelling service is also available delivering
  high quality multimedia content for CD marketing
  campaigns, exhibitions, education, digital
  product brochures and streaming over the
  internet.
• For further information www.3dsom.com

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3D Software Object Modeller
L 0 3.2 Detail

• System Requirements
• 3DSOM runs under Windows XP (Home or Professional
  Editions) or Windows 2000. Although it is
  possible to run under a Windows emulator on a
  Macintosh, this is not recommended, as intensive
  processing is required.
• Recommended specs for a PC
• CPU x86 compatible, PC/AT compliant
• Pentium 3 or 4 is preferable
• 32-bit graphics card with OpenGL support
• Monitor resolution 1024x768 minimum (small
  system fonts)
• Physical RAM 128MB minimum, 256MB recommended
• Mouse and Keyboard

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VR Worx 2.5
L 0 4.3 Abstract

• QuickTime Virtual Reality is an extension of the
  QuickTime technology developed by Apple Computer,
  Inc. that allows viewers to interactively explore
  and examine photo realistic, three-dimensional,
  virtual world. Unlike many other virtual reality
  systems, QuickTime VR does not require the viewer
  to wear goggles, a helmet or gloves. Instead, the
  viewer navigates in a virtual world using
  conventional computer input devices (such as the
  mouse, trackball, track pad or keyboard) to
  change the displayed image via the QuickTime VR
  movie controller.
• The VR Worx is the award-winning suite of VR
  authoring tools for QuickTime. The latest
  version, The VR Worx 2.5 is taking advantage of
  todays revolutionary operating systems.
  Engineered for Mac OS X and Windows XP, with a
  new streamlined and simplified user interface,
  The VR Worx 2.5 delivers powerful technology
  along with fresh advancements to its famous
  feature/function set. The VR Worx 2.5 creates
  cylindrical panoramic movies, object movies and
  multi-node scenes (a.k.a. virtual tours), all in
  the QuickTime format.

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VR Worx 2.5
L 0 4.3 Abstract

• Version 2.5 has the ability to create an object
  movie, which has a panoramic movie as a moving
  background. And v2.5 has the capacity for
  transitions within a multi-node scene, like
  standard wipes, dissolves, explodes, and others,
  as well as actual linear video as a transition.
  The VR Worx 2.5 can construct multimode
  environments with cylindrical panoramas, cubic
  VRs, multi-row objects, absolute objects, objects
  with sound, still images and linear QuickTime
  movies.
• For further information www.vrtoolbox.com

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VR Worx 2.5
L 0 4.3 Detail

• System Requirements for PC
• Pentium Class PC (or compatible)
• Windows ME, 2000, XP (or higher)
• DirectX 8
• QuickTime 6 or later
• 128 MB RAM
• System Requirements for Macintosh
• Power PC (or compatible)
• Mac OS X 10.2 (or higher)
• QuickTime 6 or later
• 128 MB RAM

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PhotoModeler
L0 4.4 Abstract

• PhotoModeler is a powerful 3D software product
  that calculates measurements and constructs 3D
  models from your photographs simply and easily.
• PhotoModeler is used by professionals around the
  world to
• Create "as-built" drawings and measurements for
  process and plant engineers
• Measure accident and crime scenes for forensic
  analysts
• Create "as-found" and "as-built" drawings for
  architects and historic preservationists
• Model sets, objects, people and vehicles for
  animators and film/video producers

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PhotoModeler
L0 4.4 Abstract

• Measure and create drawings of buildings,
  excavations artefacts for archaeologists
• Measure and model anatomical morphology for
  anthropologists and medical practitioners
• Reverse-engineer mechanical parts and assemblies
  for manufacturing engineers
• Survey complex 3D shapes, structures and volumes
  for civil engineers and surveyors
• Model objects for 3D databases for virtual
  reality builders

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PhotoModeler
L0 4.4 Detail

• System Requirements
• PhotoModeler runs on Windows NT 4.0 (SP6), 2000,
  and XP. The minimum system requirements are 800
  Mhz Pentium, 128MB RAM, 100MB hard disk space,
  CD-ROM drive (4X), 800X600 screen with 32,000
  colours and sound hardware for the video
  tutorials. Pro 5 will run on Windows 98 and Me
  but these legacy systems tend to have more video
  and interface driver problems - on some machines
  PM Pro 5 runs without problems and on others
  there might be issues.
• International copies of PhotoModeler may include
  a parallel port hardware lock. To create your own
  models, a method of capturing images is required,
  such as a digital camera, scanner, or video
  capture board.
• For further information www.photomodeler.com

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Pixmaker PRO
L0 4.5 Abstract

• Following the simple 3 steps of Snap, Stitch,
  Publish! in PixMaker 1.0, PixMaker Pro enables
  you to create 360 interactive PixAround content
  complete with Hotspots efficiently with
  customization options for Hotspot, Postcard and
  Web pages via its proven friendly, intuitive and
  easy-to-use graphical user interface.
• PixAround Scenes can be published online as Web
  pages, offline as Postcards, Screen Savers,
  PowerPoint presentations and onto mobile
  devices based on both Palm OS and Windows CE.
  You can create as many PixAround Scenes, Web
  pages, Postcards and Presentations as you wish at
  no additional cost. No additional software or
  browser plug-ins are not required for viewing the
  PixAround content.

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Pixmaker PRO
L0 4.5 Detail

• Supported Formats
• Image files - JPEG (.jpg), Bitmap (.bmp), Photo
  CD (.pcd), Tagged Image file (.tif), Portable
  Network Graphics (.png)
• URL files - HTML (.htm, .html), Server side
  (.shtm, .shtml, .stm)
• Video files - MPEG (.mpeg, .mpg, .m1v, .mp2),
  AVI (.avi, .wmv), QuickTime (.mov, .qt), Flash
  (.swf), RealMedia (.ra, .ram, .rm, .rmj)
• Audio files - Audio (.wav, .snd, .au, .aif,
  .aifc, .wma), MIDI (.mid, .rmi, .midi), MP3
  (.mp3), RealMedia (.ra, .ram, .rm, .rmj)
• Minimum system requirements
• Windows 98 Second Edition, 2000, Millennium
  Edition, XP
• 333 MHz Intel/AMD Processor
• 128 MB RAM
• 50 MB available hard drive space
• Video display capable of 800 x 600 pixels or
  higher with 65,535 colors

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Pixmaker PRO
L0 4.5 Detail

• Optimum system requirements
• Windows 98 Second Edition, 2000, Millennium
  Edition, XP
• 650 MHz Intel/AMD Processor or higher
• 256 MB RAM or more
• 50 MB available hard drive space
• Video display capable of 1024 x 768 pixels or
  higher with 16 million colors
• For further information www.pixaround.com