Indianapolis Museum of Art Blog » TourML http://www.imamuseum.org/blog The IMA blog is a space to discuss everything related to the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:42:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 An early look at TAP http://www.imamuseum.org/blog/2009/09/01/an-early-look-at-tap/ http://www.imamuseum.org/blog/2009/09/01/an-early-look-at-tap/#comments Tue, 01 Sep 2009 14:47:15 +0000 Charlie http://www.imamuseum.org/blog/?p=7793 As publicized on the exhibition web site and in IMA’s Previews Magazine, we will be offering an iPod Touch driven multimedia tour of our exhibition, Sacred Spain, called “TAP into Sacred Spain”.  The software development side of TAP is mostly complete.  Now the work primarily lies in the hands of the content creators.  TAP’s software design is somewhat interesting in itself.  The content creators actually manage the tour content in a Drupal powered web site.  We can export the tour and all associated media from the site as a plugin for the iPhone application.  We developed an XMLSchema, TourML (pronouced “turmoil”), in which we conform to.  The Dallas Museum of Art is actually using the same format to drive a tour that is not a native iPhone app, but rather a mobile aware web site.  They have an excellent video podcast which describes this.  You can find out more about this collaboration and more by visiting the MuseumMobile Wiki.

I’m going to let the images do most the talking, but please note that none of the design or content is completely finalized below.

Conceptual sketches of TAP TAP Splash Screen Portrait view of the keypad Landscape view of the keypad Portrait view of a tour stop Landscape view of a tour stop Portrait view of hi-res image Landscape view of high-res image Sample video content
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