Ontology-based Mobile Smart Museums Service Approach for small & medium museums

The proposed service suggest the visitor a museum which is currently better to attend, based on visitor preferences and current situation in the region. For this purpose, smart environments of region museums have to be organized. The smart environment is a decentralized infrastructure which allows different devices to share required information between them. Every user of the smart museum service has a mobile device connected to the smart environment. This mobile device communicates with other devices of the smart environment to suggest the best museum for attending at the moment, and prepares an excursion plan for this museum. Prepared excursion plan based on the visitor’s preferences, the current amount of visitors in each museum room and other context information (closed exhibits, reconstructions, seasonal exhibitions and other) acquired from Internet and intranet services. Proposed service increases popularity of small and medium museums in the world, reduces traffic jams in museum rooms, and allow museum visitor to plan his/her time more efficiency way. Keywords-knowledge management; ontologies; Internet services; user profiles; smart environment; decentralized architecture; indoor positioning.