what will the museum of the future be like?

Exhibit "Tags"

I'd recently read an article about a simplified, some might call it "dumbed down" tag that the author designed to inform visitors about the particilar exhibit that they were standing in front of. The article actually defined a schema and showed a sample.

The "tag" was not "high tech", but rather an interesting use of a well defined IA - on a printed 'tag.

Any pointers in this direction would be a great help!

Thx

Tags: exhibit, tag

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Permalink Reply by yves apeloig on April 18, 2010 at 11:58pm

I don't know if is the right one but it can interest you ;-)

http://www.box.net/shared/urt4zy43rl
In French, a more complete description
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geo-localisation_vectorielle

Some pictures
http://www.box.net/percipioplug
Musée des Arts et Métiers

Disabled days in Montpellier
http://www.box.net/shared/bl0pubs33g

Now the system is not just a device who is able to inform when standing in front of a particular exhibit.
It is a mobile behavioral interface.
The system is analyzing the behavior and "build" a sequence according the dynamic behave, not only the interest for the present exhibit but according the path, what and how the visitor look at other exhibits before this one.
And it is able to reconstruct, again according the behave, but in another manner, and send it to you by Internet.
Technically, the museum is choosing the architecture of both the real visit and the reconstruction, the visitor can go freely inside.
If you want more details don't hesitate to ask me ;-)

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Permalink Reply by Mark Sacco on April 19, 2010 at 2:01am

Thanks for the pointer, but, not quite what I was looking for.
Its really just a very simple printed, paper "tag".
The author had developed a new "information architecture" for the tag and had guidelines for using it.
It may have had QR codes on it as well, but I can't be sure.
(I thought I'd bookmarked the page, but, alas, I didn't)