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"TAP aims to provide tools to easily create and deliver mobile tour applications in a museum setting. Content creation is performed in the content management system, Drupal. TAP tours are exportable into an intermediate format, TourML, which can then be used as pluggable bundles for mobile applications. "

Based on the semantically-enriched data model, we have implemented three different components/tools in the CHIP demonstrator: Artwork Recommender, web-based virtual Tour Wizard and PDA-based Mobile Tour. (i) Artwork Recommender. a Web-based rating dialog for artworks/topics to build a user profile, based on semantics-driven recommendations. (ii) Tour Wizard. a Web-based tool using the user prole to generate (semi)automatically personalization virtual museum tours for each user. (iii) Mobile Tour. a PDA-based tool to map virtual tours into the physical museum space with constraints; to give guidance to users and to synchronize the user profile on the web and in the PDA. prsented at Museum and the Web 2008: http://www.archimuse.com/mw2008/abstracts/prg_335001703.html

This paper looks at the use of cell phones for tours of cultural sites in Europe. Although several projects have experimented with IVR, SMS and even multimedia tours on standard and next-generation networks, take-up of this platform by museums has remained low in comparison to US activity, despite cell phone usage being more wide-spread and longer-developed than in North America. Through case studies of recent phone tour projects at Tate Modern and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, we examine what the key differences and similarities are between phone-based tours on the two continents, and what each can learn from the other.

TAP aims to provide tools to easily create and deliver mobile tour applications in a museum setting.

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hart your own course at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City with AMNH Explorer-a new app that is part custom navigation system, part personal tour guide for the Museum's world-famous halls. Providing turn-by-turn directions, AMNH Explorer takes visitors from the edge of the universe to the age of the dinosaurs. Choose from a variety of Museum-designed tours or create your own from a list of popular exhibits, specimens, or artifacts.

WOOSTER PODCAST #10: Soundscene Tour of the Basquiat Exhibition This afternoon we picked up our friend Gaetane Michaux and headed over to the Brooklyn Museum of Art to see the Basquiat retrospective. Today's podcast was recorded as we walked through the exhibition.

Specifically, these museum guides are an outgrowth of a recent podcasting trend called "sound seeing," in which people record narrations of their travels - walking on the beach, wandering through the French Quarter - and upload them onto the Internet for others to enjoy. In that spirit, the creators of the unauthorized guides to the Modern have also invited anyone interested to submit his or her own tour for inclusion on the project's Web site, mod.blogs.com/art_mobs. (Instructions are on the Web site.)

Kristen defined six possible roles for museums on the Internet: 1) Filter - find and share relevant, accurate, trustworthy information 2) Curator - become a one stop shop for primary and secondary source material on specific topics 3) Node in a network - package information to live beyond your walls, monitor conversations around your content 4) Community builder - create your own network, be involved in online conversations 5) Lifesaver - provide portable information when and where people need it most 6) Tour Guide - connect your content to the real world

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Museum aan de stroom - a brand-new city museum covering the art, shipping and folklore of Antwerp, Belgium - is offering web visitors real, real-time guides. Through June 7, visitors to the museum's website can interact with, and direct, flesh-and-blood guides through their Discover the MAS Live program and website.

[...] ... her audio guide featured something a little more lively. "Now, let's talk about this painting sexually," a man's deep voice said. "What do you see in this painting?"