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P.: Cultivating personalized museum tours online and on-site. Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 34(2 (2009)
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@MISC{Wang09p.:cultivating,
author = {Yiwen Wang and Lora Aroyo and Natalia Stash and Rody Sambeek and Yuri Schuurmans and Guus Schreiber and Peter Gorgels},
title = {P.: Cultivating personalized museum tours online and on-site. Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 34(2},
year = {2009}
}
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Abstract
Web 2.0 — the perceived second generation of the World Wide Web that aims to improve collaboration, sharing of information and interoperability — enables increasing access to digital collections of museums. The expectation is that more and more people will spend time preparing their visit before actually visiting the museum and look for related information reflecting on what they have seen or missed after visiting the museum. It can also be expected that museum curators want to enhance visitors ’ museum experiences in the more personalized, intensive and engaging way promised by an improved Web. In other words, to keep their visitors, they should adopt an immersive museum environment that combines the museum Web site (online) with the physical museum space (on-site). In this context, the CHIP 1 (Cultural Heritage Information Presentation) project offers tools to the users to be their own curators, e.g. browsing the online collections, planning a personalized museum tour suiting their art interests, getting some recommendations about interesting artworks to see, and quickly fi nding their ways in the museum. In this paper, we present the new additions to the CHIP tools, which target such functionality: a Web-based museum Tour Wizard based on the user’s interests and the Mobile Guide that
Keyphrases
museum tour interdisciplinary science review online collection immersive museum environment museum web site world wide web art interest chip tool improved web new addition perceived second generation related information visitor museum experience museum curator engaging way interoperability enables physical museum space user interest web-based museum tour wizard mobile guide digital collection cultural heritage information presentation
