Newfields

Grant funding will support the development of tools and specifications for building, sharing, and preserving mobile tours that museums can use to create and deploy their own mobile experiences. Led by the Indianapolis Museum of Art, with partners from the art, history, and science museum communities, this TourML & TAP project will address significant challenges facing many museums that are planning, developing, and using mobile technology by ensuring that the content created for these tours is well described, shareable, easily migrated between authoring tools, and supports long-term preservation. The project will also facilitate consensus building among museums and the vendor community regarding the nature of mobile tours, and will offer a powerful model for how open-source and proprietary systems can coexist within the museum community.