the digital museum as platform v2

THE DIGITAL MUSEUM AS PLATFORMMuseum Next 2013, Amsterdam

Jacob R. Wang, National Museum of Denmark

#museumnext // @jacob_wang

The National Museum of DenmarkEstablished 1807

550 employees | 1 million hours | 35 million Euro

The National Museum of DenmarkEstablished 1807

10 million objects| 2 million images | 1 library

MISSIONThe National Museum embody and develop the prerequisites for

everyone to be able to gain insight into cultural history

WHAT’S NEXT?

Zuse Z3 (1943)

Odense City Museums, 1998

Graphics from Smithsonian Learning Model >> CLICK ME

NEWsocial, communication, learning, creation, sharing

MECHANICS

WE’RE MOVINGFrom analogue to digital

From broadcast to interaction

From product to platform

AND WE NEED STRATEGY TO DO THAT

CLEVERLY

GOOD STRATEGY?”I will predict the future, and use this to carefully plan

our work in the years to come!”

WHAT’S NEXT?Relevant trends and powerful tools

Further SoLoMo, Semantic Web, Artificial Intelligence

Natural interfaces, Image recognition, Augmented Reality

WHAT CAN WE DO NOW?Pick principles and tactics + do stuff

Open Access, Linked Open Data

Digitisation, Infrastructure development, Metadata-production

DevOps, Validated Learning, Government 2.0

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

1997: Kasparov vs Deep Blue

Humans vs Watson (2011) Link

2011: Humans vs Watson

WATSONWatson is an artificial intelligence computer system capable

of answering questions posed in natural language (…)

Watson has access to 200 million pages of structured and

unstructured content(*) (…) including the full text of

Wikipedia.

Wikipedia

(*) 4 TBs of encyclopedias, dictionaries,

thesauri, newswire articles, literary works,

databases, taxonomies, ontologies

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFR3lOm_xhEWatson in action:

CULTURAL HERITAGE WATSON?Consumer (pocket) technology, Internet connected, Faster, Better,

Smarter

Will we have content ready?

Structured & Unstructured

from

MUSEUM PROTOCOLS

to

MUSEUM COLLECTION SYSTEM

to

MUSEUM COLLECTION & KNOWLEDGE SYSTEM

to

MUSEUM AI

SEMANTIC WEB

OK, so...We’ve got a lot of our objects registered

We’ve got the ~10 basic information about

objects

We need more info about the objects

We need CONTEXT info

We need CONNECTIONS

to other objects, people, places, times,

concepts, ideas, phonomena

Semantic Web / Linked

DataIs about doing what the web enable us to do:

Converge our collections

Overcome the limits of time and space

Give easy and one stop, one serve access

Build our ressources into ONE by connecting

them

(properly, through Linked Data technologies)

PLATFORM DREAMS

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What’s next to my

museumDigitisation + metadataproduction

Flexibility, Scalability, Sustainability

Semantic Web + Artificial Intelligence

THANK YOU!