This document discusses a project called MUSED that aims to increase the reuse of museum objects in educational environments. The project proposes designing a framework that allows museum staff and teachers to annotate museum objects with educational content. This would enable teachers to integrate cultural heritage resources into lessons. The goals are to establish new training opportunities using engaging online content, and to create multidisciplinary lessons linking museum objects to topics. By annotating objects, the project hopes to encourage museum visits and improve the relationship between museums and education.

1. Sharing and reuse of museum
objects in learning environments
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Technologies in Cultural Heritage
In recent years museum staff have
developed online catalogues and
repositories

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Technologies in Cultural Heritage
Massive Digitalization
How best to use the large amount of
information

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Technologies in Cultural Heritage
Linked Data technology
Has suggested to …
display, share and connect
information via URI

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Technologies in Cultural Heritage
Linked Data
allows
• Catalogues interoperability
• heterogeneus data connection
• To build links
• To search for semantic associations
• Reusing of data

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Digital Agenda for Europe
Accessibility and reuse
:“The online accessibility of cultural material will make it
possible for citizens throughout Europe to access and use it for
leisure, studies or work. Moreover, the digitised material can
be reused – for both commercial and non-commercial purposes
– for uses such as developing learning and educational content,
documentaries, tourism applications, games, animations and
design tools, provided that this is done with full respect for
copyright and related rights“ [EU Commission
Recommendation, 2011].
OPEN DATA

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Technologies in Cultural Heritage
Open data and Museums
Object Museums Metadata are available for reusing
Teaching Tourism Creative Industry

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Technologies in Teaching
Allow
•To establish new training
•To use online engaging content to
students
•To work out multisciplinary lessons

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Teaching Resources
Lesson

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Technologies in Cultural Heritage
Application for teachers
Teacher Center Canada Virtual Museum
http://www.museevirtuel-virtualmuseum.ca/edu/Login.do?method=load
NOT JUST METADATA!
Rijskmuseum in Amsterdam
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/explore-the-collection

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Vincenza FerraraHet melkmeisje, Johannes Vermeer, ca. 1660
da WeBSite Rijskmuseum

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Critical issues
•The Language and terminology adopted by museum staff are
not easily accessible and understandable
•The online catalogues have limited information related to
educational courses

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Proposal
•Designing a framework which enables to the museum
staff and the teachers to annotate museum objects with
educational content
•Allow to teachers and student to download museum
information on their own PC
•Allow to teachers to integrate contents of cultural
heritage and education into the hypermedia lesson by
using CMS tool

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MUSED Project
Proposal for reusing digital resources in teaching
2012 “Museum and environmental information for science
teaching:towards a Learning Management System”
Project supported by the Italian Ministry of Education
Val Maggia primary School
Digilab Research Center of Sapienza University of Rome
Museums of Sapienza University of Rome

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POLO Museale Repository
History
of
Medicine
Origins Near
East Herbarium Chemistry
Mineralogy
PMS

17. PMS CULTURALITALIA
EUROPEANA
MUSED
ANNOTATION
TOOLCOMMUNITY
SCHOOL
MUSED (Museum and Education)

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Project Scheme

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At the end of Project
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The user will be able
•to find museum object interested in learning
•to find topics connected to different museum
objects
•to find lessons based on museum objects

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New catalogue

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Search object

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Project results – Hypermedia Lesson

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Project results – Hypermedia Lesson

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The next steps
Surveys to students to verify
•the museum enhancement,
•project impact on teaching,
•the results obtained and any critical issues

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Conclusion and Perspectives
Mused with Annotation tool will be able to increase
museum object contents interesting in teaching
environment
•Encourage museum visits
•Improve the relationship between museums and
educational context
•Increase using and re-using cultural heritage

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http://mused.uniroma1.it
For Further Information

35. Thanks for your attention!
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