- Bath, Bath and North East Somerset, United Kingdom
Manjula Patel
University of Bath, UKOLN Informatics, Faculty Member
Research Interests: Computer Graphics, Humanities, Publishing, Photogrammetry, Cultural Heritage, and 14 moreMultimedia, Metadata, Augmented Reality, Content Management, Virtual Museums, Data Visualization, Data Visualisation, Virtual Reality, Interoperability, Cultural Differences, Image Reconstruction, Exhibitions, Refining, and Multimedia Data
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We describe a system which addresses all the processes involved in digitally acquiring, modelling, storing, manipulating and creating virtual exhibitions from 3D museum artefacts. More specifically, we examine the significance of metadata... more
We describe a system which addresses all the processes involved in digitally acquiring, modelling, storing, manipulating and creating virtual exhibitions from 3D museum artefacts. More specifically, we examine the significance of metadata in enabling and supporting all of these processes and describe the extensive facilities provided for authoring, maintaining and managing metadata. The development of the system has been heavily influenced by factors relating to interoperability, standards, museum best practice and feedback from two museum pilot sites. Finally, we briefly consider the system in the wider context of applications such as virtual learning environments and distributed repositories of archives.