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Landscape/Mobile Reading Response
Reading the article, “Implementing Mobile Augmented Reality Applications for Cultural Institutions” by Deborah Boyer and Josh Marcus offers the pros and cons of developing a website into a mobile web application. The article, “Storyteller – World War One: Love and Sorrow – A hybrid exhibition mobile experience” by Timothy Hart and Johnny Brownbill offers the experience of creating a mobile application using Bluetooth technology. In “Beyond the Screen: Creating interactives that are location, time, preference, and skill responsive” by Brad Baer, Emily Fry, and Daniel Davis they discuss ways that museum/exhibit mobile/tablet/desktop app developers can implement their application to suit their needs along with their patrons. The options they give,…
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Oral History Reading Response
Reading “OHMS: Enhancing Access to Oral History for Free” by Doug Boyd provided a glimpse at what the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History at the University of Kentucky Libraries went through to create a software, Oral History Metadata Synchronizer (OHMS), useful to their field and open to the public. They dealt with the challenges of transcription, indexing, time code markers, and other aspects of digitizing oral interviews. Boyd discusses these challenges and how the OHMS solved these issues. By making it an open source project, it makes it easier for other institutions and/or individuals to use this software. There is still improvements to be made to this software…