Virtual Museum and Its Purpose

Proceedings of the Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries 3rd Conference Helsinki, Finland, March 7-9, 2018., 2018

This paper examines the role of virtual museums as information resources for preserving and promoting cultural heritage. The focus is on strategies for the preservation, documentation and representation of historical and cultural heritage including addressing challenges associated with historical sources and their organization and support. Issues related to searching for resources related to virtual museums, their aggregation and documentation are also discussed. Digitalhistory.ru is highlighted as one solution to organizing information about virtual museums and their content on the basis of the resource-aggregation of information resources of historical and cultural heritage.

2020

Many thousands of virtual museums exist on the Internet, demonstrating very diverse and significant museum resources, showcasing the treasury of humankind. These resources have come a long way in their evolution over past decades. The history of virtual museums began long before they appeared on the Internet, and the concept of virtual museums needed to be established in order to become an essential and effective means of accomplishing new museum functions in the digital age. Through the designing of such a concept, the creation and development of museums' information resources, websites and various digital initiatives have become the keys to the success of museums in the digital environment today. This article considers the concept of a virtual museum, traces the transition of virtual museums from analog and interim multimedia formats to the online environment. The author surveys the crucial moments in the history of virtual museums and the stages of their development from the ...

Museums are interested in digitizing their collections in order not only to preserve the cultural information, but also to make it available to the wide public in an attractive manner. Emerging technologies, such as VR, AR and Web3D are widely used for creating virtual museum exhibitions in a museum environment through informative kiosks and on the World Wide Web. This paper makes a survey in the field and explores the various kinds of virtual museums, their advantages and limitations by presenting old and new methods and tools used for their creation.

Proceedings of ICHIM, 2005

Ulakbilge, 2020

Corona, Lara. International University of Catalunya, Department of Humanities, "Museology and Communication within the virtual Museum". Ulakbilge, 44 (2020/1): s. 26-31. Abstract. Anyone thinks to know what a museum is. However, despite the common thoughts, a museum is an institution which is constantly evolving nowadays. The present work aims to highlight the link between the "museum" entity as an institution and changes in society. This adjustment affects the museum communication. Today, communication is said to be a particular current topic due to social evolution. Indeed, it leads to new challenges arising from globalisation, and new opportunities offered in terms of technological innovation. We live in a historical moment characterised by great social and economic changes that see technology as the main protagonist. So what is the role of this technology in the institution and the "museum" institution? In this paper, we consider the results of the changes in society in terms of technology and how they affect museums and their manners of communication.

2016

The contribution deals with the subject of the virtual museum specifying its rapid transformations in an age where information, especially in the field of digital technologies, constantly change making the adopted information systems rapidly obsoleted. The acceleration caused by technological advances, the speed of the network, combined with the changing needs of contemporary society, urge the museums to interact with the audience through cultural sharing by multimedia platforms. The goal of this article is to approach the subject from the point of view of the representation, investigating the oxymoron between the traditional museum, housed in a limited exhibition system, and the virtual museum extended in unlimited web spaces, proposing the application to the case study of the Castelli Ceramics Museum.

Proceedings of the …, 2000

The current paper describes an approach to designing and implementing a virtual environment comprising ten different museums. The number of museums as well as the variety of their exhibits lead to the adoption of a generalised strategy that catered for all museum presentation needs and allowed for future expansion. Furthermore, the system architecture supports the delivery of multimedia content either over the Internet or via a local immersive virtual reality installation.

2014

This paper describes a novel approach to satisfy the needs of museum's website visitors with a unique experience that cannot be reproduced in the museum itself. We aim at providing a continuous and lasting experience, without the emphasis of a single, nal result - a pro- cess we call digital strolling. The view supports this process by displaying results as a path on which the user strolls. To enable the user to nd new and unexpected inspiration, recommendations to related exhibits are proposed in dierent dimensions to vary the user's path. The common approach of image retrieval as the sole method to generate recommen- dations of related exhibits is not sucient. Authored tagging is still the better but more costly solution. The proposed approach claims to ll the gap between current digital museums and the needs of the digital museums' visitors.

Proceedings of the International Conference “Electronic Imaging & the Visual Arts, EVA-2016". 23-24 June, 2016. St.-Petersburg. , 2016

The article deals with the examination of virtual museums and their typology, the evaluation of their potential for historical researches. The author determines possible ways of rising their potential in order to use the sources presented in virtual museums more widely; gives the definition of a virtual museum; marks out their types; shows the meaning of virtual museum resources for broadening of scientific themes; singles out the existing problems and restrictions, connected with the usage of online collections and virtual museum sources; suggests ways for raising the information value of virtual museums and broadening their possibilities to use them in researches.

2011

Virtual cultural heritage research in Bosnia and Herzegovina results with a number of virtual reconstructions and virtual museums (VM). Virtual Museums are online multimedia applications using various digital content and implementation technologies. This paper presents an overview of these technologies used in our projects and their efficiency from the user's point of view.