Comments on: TourML (in progress)

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).”

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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/

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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!