This paper examines the development of an information infrastructure involving collaborative technologies at the Spurlock Museum, a museum of world history and culture at the University of Illinois. It details a socio-technological system that was designed to pack and re-locate 45,000 artifacts across campus to a new museum facility. It addresses the question of how the information infrastructu...

The University of Texas and the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian have had experience working together on virtual museum projects that bring indigenous people to the museum for the purpose of “digitally repatriating” important cultural items. The initial virtual museum project provided a strategy for cultural responsive teaching in American Indian schools. They also provided a ...

In this paper, we will present an outline for an online recommender system for art works. The system, termed Virtual Museum Guide, will take the interest that visitors of an online museum express into account in recommending suitable art works, as well as the relationships that exist between art works in the collection. To keep the Virtual Museum Guide similar to a human museum guide, we based ...

The visitor to a museum may start the visit with an identity that depends on various short-term and long-term personal characteristics of the visitor, the museum itself and the visit context. Falk [2009] posits that the visitor's identity would be one of the following: explorer, attraction-seeker, professional/hobbyist, recharger, or facilitator. Each one of the identities fits a different beha...

Documentation of art museum collections has been traditionally written by and for art historians. To make art museum collections broadly accessible, and to enable art museums to engage their communities, means of access need to reflect the perspectives of other groups and communities. Social Tagging (the collective assignment of keywords to resources) and its resulting Folksonomy (the assemblag...

Finite element applications have customarily been used as a means for the analysis of constant-property prototypes prior to their physical fabrication. To a lesser extent they have been made instrumental for purposes of design generation and fabrication of variable material-property prototypes. The work explores the potential of applying finite element methods in the early stages of the design ...

Department of Biology, Black Hills State University, 1200 University Street, Spearfish, SD 57783-9053, USA Majorie Barrick Museum of Natural History, 4505 Maryland Parkway, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV 89154-4012, USA Department of Mammalogy and Ornithology, Natural History Museum, CP 6434, CH-1211 Geneva 6, Switzerland Natural History Museum and Biodiversity Research Center and Departme...

due to universal importance of tabriz carpet art and presence of specific indicators and motifs in tabriz carpet art and its potentials, existence of architectural site for representing this art as carpet art museum in tabriz is necessary. the site of this project is located adjacent to tabriz blue mosque near the museum historical site. it is essential to consider the historical elements and c...