CMME: Toolkit Source Code for Interactive

Posted on  November 18, 2014 by Emily O'HaraView all posts by Emily O'Hara

Written by Ben Jones This computer-based interactive is the result of our Creating Museum Media for Everyone (CMME) work at the Museum of Science. In this post, we are including the source code so that individuals or institutions can repurpose … Continue reading →

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CMME Final Exhibit Component

Posted on  September 30, 2014 by Emily O'HaraView all posts by Emily O'Hara

For the Creating Museum Media for Everyone (CMME) project, the team from the Museum of Science, Boston, aimed to develop a proof-of-concept exhibit component that used multisensory options to display data and whose components could be adapted into a basic … Continue reading →

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Open Exhibits Seattle Bound for AAM 2014

Posted on  February 4, 2014 by Nora GallerView all posts by Nora Galler

Open Exhibits will be at the AAM Expo in their new Technology Innovation Zone (booth 2809) featuring OE software on Ideum multitouch tables.  The Expo is not until May, but we’re excited to be participating again this year and to show … Continue reading →

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HCI+ISE Conference Proceedings Available Online

Posted on  October 8, 2013 by Nora GallerView all posts by Nora Galler

The proceedings of the HCI+ISE conference, held in June, are now available online. You can read the complete document in the Papers section of the Open Exhibits site or on ISSUU. An accessible PDF version is in the works. Special … Continue reading →

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Ideum at the AAM Annual Meeting and MuseumExpo

Posted on  May 16, 2013 by Nora GallerView all posts by Nora Galler

Ideum will be attending this month’s American Alliance of Museum’s Annual Meeting and MuseumExpo in Baltimore, May 19-22. We’ll be at Booth #501 - come see our Platform 3M 46 touch table, Presenter 55 touch wall, and our Open Exhibits Collection Viewer application. The MuseumExpo opening event begins on Monday, … Continue reading →

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Collection Viewer Paired with CollectiveAccess

Posted on  April 16, 2013 by Nora GallerView all posts by Nora Galler

The Open Exhibits Collection Viewer now has the ability to pull from collection data in CollectiveAccess collection management software. Catalog objects and metadata in CollectiveAccess are queried and pulled into the Collection Viewer interface for interactive browsing of museum or … Continue reading →

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London to New Mexico: Multitouch for the British Museum

Posted on  August 3, 2012 by Shelley MannionView all posts by Shelley Mannion

Leaving London Olympic madness behind, I have landed in New Mexico for a month-long fellowship with Open Exhibits. It has been a long road from the multitouch seminar held at The British Museum in October 2011. That event brought an Ideum … Continue reading →

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