The document discusses strategies for keeping pace with rapid changes in mobile technology through the TAP (Technology and Practice) project. [1] The TAP project receives funding from the IMLS to create open-source tools for building mobile experiences in museums. [2] It aims to build support for the TourML metadata specification and successfully launch mobile experiences using these tools in partner museums. [3] The TAP project includes tools for authoring, managing, and validating mobile tour content using the TourML specification to represent stories and assets.

1. What’s on TAP?
Strategies for keeping pace with rapid changes in mobile technology
Charlie Moad
Acting CIO; Director IMA Lab
Indianapolis Museum of Art
CMoad@IMAmuseum.org
@cmoad

2. How do we sustain our rich content?

3. “Never create something you can’t reuse” - @rjstein

4. Keeping pace with technology is hard

5. • 2 year National Leadership Grant from the IMLS
• A collaboration of Museums, Vendors, and Content Experts
1. Create open-source tools that can be used in full or in
pieces to support the creation of mobile experiences in
museums
2. Build community support and adoption of the TourML
metadata specification as a means of representing the
content of mobile museum experiences
3. Successfully use these tools and methods to launch and
document mobile experiences in each of the partner
museums
Goals of the TAP & TourML Project

6. Application
Content Layer
Layer
Authoring
Layer
Building blocks of TAP

7. Powerful model for managing content

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10. Tour
Stop
Stop
Stop
Stop Stop
Asset Asset Asset Asset
Connection
Asset Reference
TourML: A specification for mobile tour content… or story
structure generally.

11. TourSet
TourML: Content Layer

12. TourSet
Tour
TourMetadata
Asset
Stop
Connection
TourML: Content Layer

13. TourML: Validation Tools

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26. Thanks. – http://www.TAPintoMuseums.org
Charlie Moad
Acting CIO; Director IMA Lab
Indianapolis Museum of Art
CMoad@IMAmuseum.org
@cmoad