SMARTMUSEUM

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Acronym of the case:

Smartmuseum

Web address of the case:

http://smartmuseum.eu

Country of the case:

Bulgaria , Estonia , Finland , France , Italy , Malta , Sweden

City/region:

Europe

digital content | personalisation | cultural heritage access

Posting Date: 8 February 2010
Last Edited Date: 09 February 2010

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Author:

Alar Kuusik (ELIKO Competence Centre)Estonia

Alar Kuusik

Type of initiative

Project or service

Case Abstract

The objective of the SMARTMUSEUM project is the development of an IT mobile platform for users enabling personalised access to existing digital content. The platform understands the users’ preferences and identifies and recommends points of interests in outdoor environments and most relevant artefacts during museum visits. The content is therefore customised on the users’ specific needs and it is accessible through a personal smartphone. At the same time, SMARTMUSEUM allows a simple reuse of existing digital content with detailed users’ feedback information.

Impact, innovation and results

Impact

A pilot cultural heritage recommendation system for tourists was set up in two museums in Florence and Valletta, giving personalised recommendations for museum visitors and to tourist in external environments. The system supports RFID and GPS based positioning, text-to-speech synthesis and user preference learning; the system has obtained a very positive feedback from the users concerning its functionality and usability.

Lessons learnt

It is necessary to reply on selected partners, as is hard to invite remote partners to do things outside their traditional topics, even if they initially agreed.
Early integration and deployment of the simplified system proved to be essential to end up with stable working demonstrator.
Technological infrastructure has to be customisable even for prototypes; otherwise it would not meet the users’ needs.