This presentation by Diana Sørensen, PhD student at the University of Amsterdam presented her master thesis and current work with the research group ‘Information Access’ at the CWI, the national research institute for mathematics and computer science in the Netherlands on 8 July 2013. This included a brief introduction to meSch. The research presented here is part of the meSch project. The project (2013-2016) receives funding from the European Community’s Seventh Framework Programme ‘ICT for access to cultural resources’ (ICT Call 9: FP7-ICT- 2011-9) under the Grant Agreement 600851. See: http://mesch-project.eu/

2. meSch (Material EncounterS with
meSch (Material EncounterS with
digital Cultural Heritage)
digital Cultural Heritage)
meSch has the goal of designing, developing and
deploying tools for the creation of tangible
interactive experiences that connect the physical
experience of museums and exhibitions with relevant
digital cross-media information in novel ways.

3. TBAS – ECIR2012recommendation)
PhD (search and
…to develop search and recommendation
methods over rich museum data taking into
account the context of, and relations between objects;
to enrich and link data to external (re)sources for
further exploration; and to customize and
personalize access to rich profiles derived from
implicit features in transaction logs.

5. Bridges the gap...
meSch bridges the gap between visitors’
cultural heritage experience on-site and
on-line by providing a platform for the
creation of tangible smart exhibits

6. ….that enables heritage professionals to compose
and realise physical artifacts enriched by digital
content without the need for specialized technical
knowledge…

7. Co-design
….the broad participation of designers,
developers and stakeholders….

8. meSch platform
….the platform includes an authoring
environment for the composition of
physical/digital narratives to be mapped to
interactive artefacts, and an embedded
multi-sensor digital system platform for the
construction of ad-hoc physical adaptive smart
objects….

9. Three large-scale case studies
• Allard Pierson Museum (APM)
• Museon
• Museo Storico Italiano della Guerra (MdG)

10. The ultimate goal
… to support the creation of an open
community of cultural heritage institutions
driving and sharing a new generation of
physical/digital museum interactives….

11. mesch-project.eu
meschproject@gmail.com
The project (2013-2016) receives funding from the European
Community’s Seventh Framework Programme ‘ICT for access to
cultural resources’ (ICT Call 9: FP7-ICT-2011-9) under the Grant
Agreement 600851.