Designing the digital ecosystem of the virtual museum of the pacific

Abstract

Abstract-The Virtual Museum of the Pacific is a digital ecosystem implemented as Web 2.0 application that experiments with information and knowledge acquisition for a digital collection of museum artifacts from the Australian Museum. The Virtual Museum of the Pacific allows several search methods: attribute search based on a control vocabulary, query refinement and query-by-example but importantly it facilitates a number of social media interfaces that enable content to be added and tagged, the control vocabulary to be extended, user perspectives to be defined and narratives added via wiki. We characterize the design of the Virtual Museum of the Pacific as: a semantic Web application with a Web services back-end, and as a digital ecosystem by identifying its purpose, function and stakeholders. In doing so, the paper illustrates the issues encountered in its design and deployment, the technical platform, the historical context of the growth of the collection and the challenges to the organization and management of a digital ecosystem metadata model.

Information Retrieval and Social Tagging for Digital Libraries Using Formal Concept Analysis

“…The program therefore represents an extensible museum content management system with a flexible mechanism for browsing and exploring the set of objects. Its social media capabilities give a rich Web 2.0 interface that we have argued is a web-based digital ecosystem [9].…”

“…The Virtual Museum of the Pacific is implemented as a rich internet application that marshals Web Services (WS) to deliver a rich user experience from a distributed and heterogeneous store including relational database, high resolution image files, folksonomy, wiki text, video and audio content. The effect is to create an end-toend digital ecosystem [9] with access control and data model that accommodates formal metadata and informal taxonomy, distributes rich media and captures social tagging content.…”

Web services and digital ecosystem support using formal concept analysis

“…The program therefore represents an extensible museum content management system with a flexible mechanism for browsing and exploring its set of objects. Its social media capabilities and a rich Web 2.0 interface can be used to argue the system is a digital ecosystem [7].…”

“…The program, called the Virtual Museum of the Pacific (VMP) [7], is a digital ecosystem for the creation of objects, attributes and conceptual scales that can subsequently be used to flexibly navigate a collection of digital objects based on user-defined semantic themes. The program contains social media components to encourage its stakeholders to contribute information to the collection.…”

Virtual museums and Web-based digital ecosystems

“…In last year's proceedings, we reported a digital ecosystem based on the representation of an information space derived from concept lattices for tagging, loading and annotating digital objects from a museum collection [12]. The program, a Web 2.0 application called the Virtual Museum of the Pacific (VMP), has now been released.…”