Sustainable Content Management

Museums and Mobile Online 2011

CHARLIE MOADDIRECTOR IMA LABINDIANAPOLIS MUSEUM OF ARTCMOAD@IMAMUSEUM.ORG@CMOAD

Content: The reason we build mobile experiences.

Cycles Online Interactive (~2006)

Global Origins (~2007)

Global Origins (~2007)

MUSEUMS AND MOBILE 2011 SURVEY

What to do?

“In software engineering, a monolithic application describes a single-tiered software application in which the user interface and data access code are combined into a single program from a single platform.” - Wikipedia

Don’t Use Monoliths

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Eat the Sandwich

TieredLayered

Model-View-ControllerModular

Service-Oriented……

More Sandwiches

TAP Sandwich Diagram

TAP on Google Code

Use a Content Management System

SANDWICH ADVANTAGESBPOC Blog: TAP Case Study

TOURML – PASS 1

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TourML (tûrmoil): a mobile content specification.

TAP on Google Code

Can we apply the sandwich concept again?

ASSETS

STOPS

CONNECTIONS

What about Navigation?

TOURML

Takeaways:

• Eat the sandwich.• Is your mobile solution a sandwich?

• Content is lunch meat.• Could you export it tomorrow?

• Use a CMS.• Even before you have a vendor.

• It’s not “if” but “when” will technology change.

ThanksMuseums and

Mobile Online 2011

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