A presentation to the HOC Lab at Politechnico Milano about the IMA's efforts to support the museum with innovative software and technology.

1. AT THE INTERSECTION OF ART AND TECHNOLOGY Robert SteinDeputy Director for Research, Technology, and EngagementIndianapolis Museum of Art

2. Some facts About the IMA IMA BY THE NUMBERS 152 Acres 300 Staff 127 Years

3. “The Indianapolis Museum of Art might be the web-smartest museum in America, and its blog is one of my favorite daily reads” – Tyler Green, Modern Art Notes

4. 50,000 objects in collection 2,242 objects on display (4%) 27,131 objectimages (54%)

5. 2010 Web Stats 942K Visits (3.75M Hits) 51% (480K) not in Visit 53% (498K) not in Indiana 2010 Museum Attendance428,213

6. IMA Labs Innovative Technology Solutions for Arts and Culture

7. The Team

8. What We Do Dedicated to strategies that help museums meet their technology goals through collaboration, and open-source tools

9. Open Tools and Collaboration

10. IMA’S DASHBOARD Since Oct 2007 78 Statistics 135 Users 250k+ Hits 6 Topics 13Departments http://dashboard.imamuseum.org

11. Steve.Museum Exploring Applications of Social Tagging for Museums Founded in 2005 2006 Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) National Leadership Research Grant 2008 IMLS NLG Steve In Action 2008 IMLS NLG Research Grant T3: Text, Tags, Trust Open Source software supporting tagging in museums

13. Say Hello to TAP IMA’s Mobile Tour Platform http://code.google.com/p/tap-tours/

14. TAP into TAP First-Class Content Management Open-SourceCommunity Owned, Freely Available Open Standards (TourML) Multi-Platform Easy-to-Use iPod Client

15. Drupal Tour CMS

16. iPod Touch Client

17. IMA Mobile / TAP

18. IMA Mobile / TAP

20. ArtBabble Today

29. Video Centered Experience

30. Note Centered Experience

34. Feedback from teachers Follow-Up Surveys Difficult finding / using search features to retrieve videos on a particular topic Assumed there were millions of videos available, and so got frustrated with not finding what they wanted (1000+ videos available today) Teachers trusted ArtBabble as a source for classroom content Authority of ArtBabble videos is unique to the classroom ArtBabble Building is more visually appealing with less effort than PowerPoint

35. Getty’s Online Scholarly Catalogue Initiative Credit Flickr ~scotttboone

36. OSCI Reader User Experienced Tailored for Scholars and Citable Content

37. Multiple Layouts (no pages)

44. Highlights, Notes & Citations

45. Highlights, Notes & Citations

46. Highlights, Notes & Citations

47. Highlights, Notes & Citations

52. We’ve tested this on all size screens Iphone Flatpanels 1,2,3, 4, column 3-screen Tiled display wall

54. Up Next The creation of a modular publishing toolkit Enhanced layout engines Offline and print support Integration with core museum systems Faceted search across catalogues

55. Prego! Thank You!