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A Second Life for Your Museum 3D Multi-User Virtual Environments and Museums Richard Urban (aka Aethalides Kukulcan) Graduate School of Library & Information Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dr. Paul Marty (aka Pont Mirabeau) School of Information Florida State University Dr. Michael Twidale (aka Dingdong Bellman) Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Originally presented at Museums & the Web 2007. Related paper at: Urban, R. et al., A Second Life for Your Museum: 3D Multi-User Virtual Environments and Museums. In J. Trant and D. Bearman (eds). Museums and the Web 2007: Proceedings. Toronto: Archives & Museum Informatics, published March 31, 2007 at http://www.archimuse.com/mw2007/papers/urban/urban.html

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A Second Life for Your Museum

3D Multi-User Virtual Environments and Museums

Richard Urban (aka Aethalides Kukulcan)Graduate School of Library & Information Science

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Dr. Paul Marty (aka Pont Mirabeau)School of Information

Florida State University

Dr. Michael Twidale (aka Dingdong Bellman)Graduate School of Library and Information Science

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Growth of Online Worlds: From…

Courtesy mmogchart.org

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To…

International Space Flight Museum

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Second LifeIs Not

a Game

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http://secondliferesearch.blogspot.com

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So what is it?

• 3D Multi-user Virtual Environment (MUVE)– Collaborative Virtual Environment (CVE)

• Proprietary– But based on open standards (OpenGL)– Open-source Client– Open-source server coming?– An open world, you build it, you script it.

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Museums in Second Life

• Through early 2007 most museums are created, built, and maintained by SL Residents

• Real-life museums are few or not actively promoting their presence

• This is already changing– ‘Sploland (Exploratorium)

– Science Center (UK)

– Newseum

– Your museum??

Image courtesy Taran Rampersad

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Science

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International Space Flight Museum

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International Space Flight Museum

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NASA CoLab

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‘Splo (Now Open! Sploland)

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Star Trek Science Museum

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Art

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Second Louvre Museum

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Bolinas Art Museum

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Artsplace

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Fantasy

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Sci-Fi Museum

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History/Archeology

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Second Life Historical Museum

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Paris 1900

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Jewish Historical Center

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Xibalba: Mayan Museum

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Virtual Morocco

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Museum of Antiquity

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Getting Started

• www.secondlife.com

• Become a “Resident”– First account is Free– Can’t own land

• Install Client

• Get Oriented

* Be sure to check system requirements first!

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Getting Around

• Walk

• Fly

• Drive/Ride

• Teleport

– SLURL – Second Life URLshttp://www.slurl.com

• Search

– In-world search limited to paying landowners

– http://search.sheeplabs.com (Beta) – Search for items

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Other Communities In SL

• Second Life Library 2.0 http://www.infoisland.org– Information Island

– Cybrary City

– Education Island

– ALA Arts Island

• Science Islands• New Media Consortium

http://www.nmc.org/sl• Educators

http://www.simteach.org

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Get Involved

• Museums in Second Life (MiSL) GroupSearch in-world under Groups – Join!

• MiSL Google Grouphttp://groups.google.com/group/Slmuseums

• Active groups are also maintained by librarians, educators, non-profits (Tech Soup) and many many more!

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More Information

• http://del.icio.us/rjurban/secondlife• YouTube Museum videos

http://youtube.com/musebrarian

• http://isrl.uiuc.edu/~rjurban• http://mailer.fsu.edu/~pmarty/• http://people.lis.uiuc.edu/~twidale/