The Viseum project
Viseum was a project (from Sept 1996) to develop advanced Internet applications
for museums. In particular a high speed network (ATM) will be established
between Vancouver, Berlin, Paris and London. This allows fast interactivity
with high resolution, accurate colour images of art. Techniques will also
be developed to allow a central index to be searched for data from various
sites. Authorisation methods will be implemented for access control, to
allow valuable data to be available to subscribers. A CD-ROM jukebox will
be implemented at the test sites to allow the servers to maintain large
images online.
Technical outline
The Viseum system will be integrated into the WWW. Conventional internet
access to art images can only provide low resolution images due to bandwidth
limitations. Current browsers can not show accurate colour images and most
images available at the moment are non-callibrated RGB images. High quality
data compression techniques will allow data to be transmitted to clients
efficiently.
DEMO!
The best demos now - are the ones showing our newest software on the IIPImage sourceforge site
Participants
DeTeBerkom GmbH - Berlin - (Prime)
The University of Southampton
- UK
Birkbeck College, University
of London - UK
Laboratoire des reserches de France (LRMF) - F
The National Gallery, London - UK
NSM Jukebox - D
Canadian participants:
Advanced Cultural Technologies Inc
(ACT)
Newbridge Networks Corp
TeleGlobe Canada Inc
CANARIE Inc
Research Networking
Association of British Columbia
The British
Columbia Virtual Museum Association
Funded by the European Community's ACTS
programme
ACTS
page on Viseum
ACTS
Chain GAC: Museums/Cultural Heritage