MW2012 Moad TAP

What’s on TAP?Strategies for keeping pace with rapid changes in mobile technology

Charlie MoadActing CIO; Director IMA Lab

Indianapolis Museum of ArtCMoad@IMAmuseum.org

@cmoad

How do we sustain our rich content?

“Never create something you can’t reuse” - @rjstein

Keeping pace with technology is hard

Goals of the TAP & TourML Project

1. Create open-source tools that can be used in full or in pieces to support the creation of mobile experiences in museums

2. Build community support and adoption of the TourML metadata specification as a means of representing the content of mobile museum experiences

3. Successfully use these tools and methods to launch and document mobile experiences in each of the partner museums

• 2 year National Leadership Grant from the IMLS• A collaboration of Museums, Vendors, and Content Experts

Building blocks of TAP

Authoring Layer

Content Layer

Application Layer

Powerful model for managing content

TAP: Application Layer

TAP: Application Layer

Tour

Stop

Asset AssetAssetAsset

Stop Stop

Stop

Stop

ConnectionAsset Reference

TourML: A specification for mobile tour content… or story structure generally.

TourSet

TourML: Content Layer

TourSetTour

TourMetadataAssetStopConnection

TourML: Content Layer

TourML: Validation Tools

TAP: Authoring Layer

TAP: Authoring Layer

TAP: Authoring Layer

TAP: Authoring Layer

TAP: Authoring Layer

TAP: Authoring Layer

TAP: Authoring Layer

TAP: Authoring Layer

TAP: Authoring Layer

TAP: Authoring Layer

TAP: Authoring Layer

TAP: Authoring Layer

Thanks. – http://www.TAPintoMuseums.org

Charlie MoadActing CIO; Director IMA Lab

Indianapolis Museum of ArtCMoad@IMAmuseum.org

@cmoad