Do you need an open-source way to create your museum's mobile tours and more?
Developed thanks to an IMLS grant, by a group of museum partners led by the Indianapolis Museum of Art, TourML & TAP are open-source tools that can be used by cultural institutions of all types and sizes to create and deploy mobile experiences. TourML was created to serve as a simple and portable representation for mobile content. Having a common language for this content will enable the integration of content management systems, kiosks, and mobile applications. Version 1.0 of TourML is ready for institutions and vendors to work together on building content and tools that take advantage of its structure and flexibility. For more information on the TourML specification see here: https://github.com/IMAmuseum/tourml/wiki In addition to the TourML specification the grant period has offered the IMA and its partners the ability to create a set of open-source tools for working with TourML. These tools called TAP include a set of Drupal modules for authoring content and creating Tourml (https://github.com/IMAmuseum/tap-cms/wiki), a web application for processing and displaying TourML (https://github.com/IMAmuseum/tap-web-app/wiki), and an iOS application (https://github.com/IMAmuseum/tap-ios/wiki). The TourML & TAP grant partners have been hard at work developing tour content and tools to leverage TourML. From web-apps to native iOS applications many interesting tours have already been created using TourML. To see some examples of the experiences being created follow this linkhttp://tapintomuseums.org/case-studies We are very excited to see where the TourML specification will be used next. Visit the TAP into Museums website for more information (http://tapintomuseums.org<http://tapintomuseum.org<http://tapintomuseums.org%3chttp/tapintomuseum.org>>). Kyle Jaebker Director IMA Lab 4000 Michigan Road Indianapolis, IN 46208 t 317-923-1331 ext. 436 f 317-920-0399 kjaebker at imamuseum.org<mailto:kjaebker at imamuseum.org%3cmailto:kjaebker at imamuseum.org> ________________________________ This email message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact Kyle Jaebker by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message.
