HOMM. ICT for Hands on Multi Media Laboratories in Museums

Homm-sw: Networks-of-stories to value tangible and intangible heritage in museums

Social inclusion, lifelong learning and the regeneration of competence networks are key processes which foster innovation. Museums may play an important role in these processes and ICT can strongly support the effectiveness of the interventions required. Among them, digital tools used to tell stories are becoming increasingly popular. Narratives in new dimensions enable the formation of persona...

New Media and Emerging Technologies - Staying Interactive in the High Tech Environment, a White Paper and Licensor Oriented Content License Agreement

Hands-On, Hands-Off: The Personal, Social and Physical Context of Interactives in Museums

'Interactives" have become an integral part of the exhibits of many museums. The term 'interactives' has been used as a shorthand description for interactive multi-media displays based around a computer and operated by an individual. In the Powerhouse Museum, Australia's largest museum, the term's usage has been expanded to include manually controlled exhibits that don't use a computer at all. ...

Use and Embedding of Interactive Media in a Museum of Contemporary History

At many public places, at train stations, airports and highway interchanges we will find culture-stations. Short trailers about points of interest will be shown on video-screens. Dialogue-systems will find out about individual likes and dislikes. A personalized culture-ticket will be printed for a nominal fee. Public transportation and private vehicles will be equipped with a decoder, which is ...

Managerial Approaches to Support Intellectual Property Rights in Museums

Some of the cultural works which are considered as cultural heritage, regardless of their antiquity and precedence, are simultaneously subject of the legal systems of intellectual property rights and cultural heritage law. This situation can lead to a conflict of interest between private ownership and public law which, in turn, may create many problems for the management of cultural heritage wh...