Comments on: TourML (in progress)

By: Museums, Archaeology & Mobile Apps | Archaeology, Museums & Outreach

Mon, 22 Aug 2011 12:02:05 +0000

[...] at the 2011 Museums and the Web Conference that addresses this issue and references the TourML wiki as a source for ongoing dialogue. The upshot of the article is recognizing the importance in the [...]

By: Mobile Content Strategies for Content Sharing and Long-Term Sustainability |

Fri, 05 Aug 2011 18:27:41 +0000

[...] Robert J. (2009) TourML (In Progress). 2009. Consulted January 27, [...]

By: Session notes: On mobile | Trip to Museums and the Web 2011

Session notes: On mobile | Trip to Museums and the Web 2011 — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 03:34:11 +0000

[...] wrap our content in TourML metadata standard to ensure it lasts into the future and inter-operates with new systems. This [...]

By: BUZZEUM » L’Indianapolis Museum of Art innove !

BUZZEUM » L’Indianapolis Museum of Art innove ! — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 18:22:36 +0000

[...] La deuxième demande correspond à la volonté de pouvoir gérer en interne toutes les mises à jour et la gestion de l‘application. Ne pas avoir à externaliser est un confort, un gain de temps et c’est économique… si on prend garde à respecter les standards lors du développement ! Si le web a le W3C, les applications mobiles et culturelles ont le TourML pour que chaque application réponde à l’exigence d’interopérabilité nécessaire pour avoir assez de stabilité et évoluer dans les meilleures conditions. Ainsi le CMS proposé par l’Indiana Polis Museum of Art entre dans ces standards. Pour voir une description détaillée des fonctionnalités et des caractéristiques du TAP (anglais), jetez un coup d’œil par ici. [...]

By: Confluence: Mobile Tools for Museums

Confluence: Mobile Tools for Museums — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 19:00:02 +0000

Narrative…

Outline # Introduction # Statement of Need # Background on TourML # Project Plan # Project Participants and Qualifications # Project Timeline # Project Budget Executive Summary The explosion of options that museums can use to produce and host……

By: 10 iPhone Apps for Current Art Exhibitions (Part 2)

10 iPhone Apps for Current Art Exhibitions (Part 2) — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 22:29:40 +0000

[...] uncovering and exploring the audio continues uninterrupted. (My wish list item to those working on TourML would be that someway I could bookmark these two works on loan from New York museums such that next [...]

By: Confluence: MW2011

Confluence: MW2011 — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 17:03:14 +0000

TourML – An Emerging Specification for Museum Mobile Experiences…

Authors: Rob Stein Nancy Proctor Abstract: The recent explosion of options used by museums to produce mobile experiences is undeniable. In the last 18 months, dozens of new mobile platforms have entered the marketplace as museums are planning,……

By: Toward a New Architecture for Mobile Content and Services in Museums | M&M

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 12:16:00 +0000

[...] August 30, 2010 1:15 pm TourML (pronounced “turmoil”) from the Indianapolis Museum of Art is an attempt to standardize the data of museum tours. http://wiki.museummobile.info/museums-to-go/products-services/tourml [...]

By: Help us build a standard for Mobile Content! : MuseumMobile Wiki

Help us build a standard for Mobile Content! : MuseumMobile Wiki — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 01:33:45 +0000

[...] TourML (in progress) [...]

By: 5 reasons why TAP should be your museum’s next mobile platform | Indianapolis Museum of Art Blog

Mon, 05 Apr 2010 13:35:39 +0000

[...] for mobile tours called TourML (pronounced Turmoil) and have published this for comment on the Museum Mobile Wiki. We’ve successfully used TourML on a few production tours now, and have shown how it can be [...]

By: Nancy Proctor

Nancy Proctor — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 21:56:46 +0000

Sam Kome (http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/profile.php?id=2717747&ref=mf) asks: “Do any SMIL players exist for mobile apps yet? I think it has the right features (timing, animation, text) otherwise, maybe tough to develop with (at first).”

By: MuseumMobile Wiki » Fresh From Twitter today

MuseumMobile Wiki » Fresh From Twitter today — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 01:01:27 +0000

[...] discussion of SMIL3.0 starting on Museum Mobile: http://is.gd/3qMSO Any views on its use in handheld apps? #mtogo RT @museweb Mobile for Museums report from @chnm [...]

By: Charlie

Charlie — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 13:17:18 +0000

Not naive by any means. We have heard of SMIL for transcriptions, but I was not aware of this 3.0 specification. At first glance SMIL 3.0 seems to fairly complex. The motivation behind TourML was to be a simple spec that only represents content of a tour. SMIL appears to be heavy on presentation, though you might not have to use those parts. In any case, thanks for the pointer and we will explore the possibility of extending this spec instead.

- Charlie

By: bpds

bpds — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 06:43:47 +0000

Just a naive question … Why don’t you extend SMIL3.0 from the W3C. It might ne may be more standardized and ubiquitous ?

http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/REC-SMIL3-20081201/

By: In Response to Nina Simon: Bait and Switch | Indianapolis Museum of Art Blog

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 11:30:19 +0000

[...] architectures that can work for lots of different museums. An early version of this spec (TourML – pronounced turmoil) can be seen in action in the Dallas Museum of Art’s new mobile tour. You can read more about [...]

By: Charlie

Charlie — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:18:04 +0000

All Stop elements can contain zero or more “Param” elements in which you could supply this information. We tried to avoid adding tour specific fields to the schema to keep it from exploding.

By: Glen Barnes

Glen Barnes — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 04:05:15 +0000

This looks really great. Is it possible to add some for of location attributes for stops? I’m thinking of 3 instances.

1) Inside a museum these would somehow relate to where they are on a map (maybe some simple x,y co-ordinates)
2) For outdoor exhibitions (for example sculpture walks) these would be lat/lng.
3) Possibly just a textural description of a location.

By: Nancy Proctor

Nancy Proctor — Fri, 15 May 2009 15:46:05 +0000

Thanks so much for sharing this! I hope it’s ok I inserted a link to the IMA on your page so folks know it’s the same brilliant brains who gave us ArtBabble, the Dashboard, etc. who are developing TourML!