tap: a hybrid cms-mobile tour architecture for multi-platform interactive content

TAP: A Hybrid CMS Mobile Tour Platform

Robert SteinChief Information OfficerIndianapolis Museum of Artrstein@imamuseum.org@rjstein

Say Hello to TAP

IMA’s Mobile Tour Platform-Sacred Spain Exhibition-Tara Donovan: Untitled-100 Acres (coming soon)

TAP into TAP

1. First-Class Content Management

2. Open-SourceCommunity Owned, Freely Available

3. Open Standards (TourML)

4. Multi-Platform

5. Easy-to-Use iPod Client

OVERVIEWSoftware Architecture

Drupal Tour CMS

iPod Touch Client

HTML 5 Client (Coming Soon)

3 GOALS FOR MOBILE CONTENT MANAGEMENT

Tappity, Tap… Tap…

MAKE AUTHORINGEASY FOR USERS

PROVIDE REUSABLE BITS

CONNECT WITH

MUSEUMSYSTEMS

WHY OPEN SOURCE?So…

WHY OPEN SOURCE?

• No existing OS solution dedicated to mobile museum tours

• We know software… Still learning about mobile content strategies

• No suitable metadata standard for Mobile Tours

• Danger of proprietary lock-in and one-off solutions

GOOGLE CODE

http://code.google.com/p/tap-tours/

Software DownloadsInstall DocumentationDiscussion GroupsiPod Clients

TOURML• A Platform-Neutral Metadata Spec for

Mobile Tours• Spec is available for comment / reference

from: http://wiki.museummobile.info/museums-to-go/products-services/tourml

TYPES OF STOPS

• Audio• Video• Text / HTML content• Image• Polls• StopGroups

STOP ATTRIBUTES

• Type– The type of the stop as described above

• Title– You guessed it :)

• ID– A unique identifier for the stop, not for humans

• StopCode– A code (either numeric or text) which can be entered by visitors to access this

stop.  This might be a traditional keypad input… the answer to some clue… or an accession number from the collection.

• Icon (optional)– An override of a default stop-type icon

• Goto– A stop reference that should be accessed immediately upon finishing the action

of this stop.

USING THESESIMPLE BUILDINGBLOCKS, YOU CANBUILD ALL SORTS

OF TOURS

ENHANCED KEYPAD

Stop Group CODE: 100

Audio Stop CODE: 200

Poll ImageAudio

Stop Group CODE: 300

VideoStop

Group

Poll Poll Poll

SOUNDTRACKS & SOUNDBITES

Stop Group CODE: 200

Audio Stop CODE: 100

Poll ImageAudio

Stop Group CODE: 400

VideoStop

Group

Poll Poll Poll

Audio Stop CODE: 300

Audio Stop CODE: 500

GOTO: 200

GOTO: 300

GOTO: 400

GOTO: 500

CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE

Audio

Video

StopGroup

Text

Audio

StopGroup

StopGroup

AudioStop

GroupPoll Video

Audio

Video

Audio

Audio

Text

GOTO

GOTO

GOTO

GOTO

GOTO GOTO GOTO

Video:Director’s Journal

StopGroup

GOTO

Stop Group:How’d They

Do That?

Stop Group:Materials

and Techniques

Image:Mainardi

Altarpiece

Video:Sebastiano Mainardi:

The Science of Art

Video:Behind The Scenes

Stop Group:Wood Panel

Stop Group:Gesso

Stop Group:Design

Stop Group:Paint

Text

Image

Text

Image

Text

Image

Text

ImageSebastiano Mainardi: The Science of Art

LET’S BUILD A TOURUp Next…

http://imamuseum.org/tapdemo

QUESTIONS?Thank You!