What’s On TAP? – Strategies for keeping pace with rapid changes in mobile technology Charles Moad and Rob Stein, Indianapolis Museum of Art, United States Abstract In 2011, the New York Times published an article that reinforces what many museums are feeling as they scramble to keep pace with changes in technology. Entitled, “Software Progress Beats Moore’s Law”, the article cites a White House advisory report detailing the changes in hardware and software innovation in the past 15 years. Perhaps most challenging for museums today are the changes occurring in the mobile industry. As described in (Stein 2011), the Indianapolis Museum of Art (IMA) proposed a platform called TAP that envisioned a modular software framework in addition to a formal description of mobile tour content called TourML. Keywords: mobile content, sustainability, open source, standards 1. Perhaps most challenging for museums today are the changes occurring in the mobile industry. 2. 3. Assets Any piece of content that is vital to a tour is considered an asset. Stops 4. 5.
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TourML (in progress) : MuseumMobile Wiki See also 5 reasons why TAP should be your museum’s next mobile platform TourML (pronounced “turmoil”) from the Indianapolis Museum of Art is an attempt to standardize the data of museum tours. By exposing your tour content in TourML, you should be able to leverage the work of others and expose your tour on many platforms. Fundamentally, TourML should only represent the content of your tour while leaving the presentation decisions to individual applications. See the latest TourML.xsd schema and sample instance on the TAP Google Code project. In thinking about how to support the Information Architecture described by Nancy in her post, as well as support for a more traditional stop-based tour as described in the TAP application. The architecture looks a little something like this: TOURSETS: (not currently in schema) A TourSet is a container for multiple Tours which may be present on a single device. This TourML XMLSchema is currently being developed. Open issues: