George Mason University’s Center for History and New Media has a new resource site on the use of mobile technologies in reaching museum visitors. The site itself is well done, and a great starting place for any cultural organization. As with many of the CHNM projects, their program examples are all open source, based on their wonderful Omeka project. They stress the importance of cross-platform solutions, and the reuse of content in multiple delivery formats (traditional web, mobile, etc.). And lest we forget the audiences, they stress the importance of meaningful engagement. The site encourages museums to experiment with mobile, and provides resources to help them get started.
Center for History and New Media » Mobile for Museums
- This site addresses those needs by proving a brief overview of what is being done in the mobile museum world and offers suggestions based on this research on how to economically provide mobile users with a positive experience with your museum…
- A primary focus of our implementations has been to extend and utilize pre-existing software frameworks and standards. This approach to mobile development avoids having to start from scratch every time an institution wishes to launch content for mobile, saving valuable resources…
- To offer a mobile site that rendered similar results in all major mobile browser, we modified a pre-existing Omeka theme, Emiglio…
- our goal was to create a single development solution that works across three major platforms: Android, Blackberry, and iPhone. We hope to encourage further cross-platform development, which is why we are releasing this open-source code to our prototypes.
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