Pachyderm and Steve

Pachyderm and Steve

A Marriage Made in Heaven?

Robert Stein, Matt Gipson - Indianapolis Museum of Art

Joshua Archer – CSU Center for Distributed Learning

Peter Samis, Tim Svenonius – SFMOMA

Scott Sayre – Sandbox Studios

Once Upon a Time…

Enter Steve – A kind young man who

listens well and has a great vocabulary, but sometimes he struggles to share his thoughts and ideas…

– When he’s older steve wants to be a social tagging tool for collecting public thought and opinion about art…

Every Story needs a Fair Lady…

Meet Pachyderm – She’s a classy lady, and a great

story-teller. She’s attractive and nice to spend time with, but she desperately wants to know what people think about what she has to say…

– When asked to describe herself she says that she’s an easy-to-use multimedia authoring system for creating attractive, interactive Flash-based presentations.

They Meet…• Steve and Pachy have known each other

from a distance for quite some time…

• In December of last year they got some time to hang out together at the Pachyderm User’s Conference in Austin…

• A plan was hatched to attempt to meld the features of steve into a Pachyderm presentation

The Romance Begins!

A Bit More…

Who is steve?

A Collaboration of Museums• IMA, The Met, SFMOMA, MIA, Cleveland, LACMA,

Guggenheim, Rubin, Skirball Cultural Center, NY Historical Society, Walker Art Center…

Who is steve?

A Tool for Tagging:• There are many reasons to collect what our users say

about our artworks

Who is steve?

A Research Endeavor:• Does this tagging stuff really work… does it offer significant

benefit to museums or the public?• Currently funded by a National Leadership grant from the

Institute for Museum and Library Services.

Who is steve?

Steve Resources:• http://www.steve.museum

and http://tagger.steve.museum

http://www.steve.museum/

Who is Pachyderm?

• Web-based, template driven authoring application for the creation of flash-based presentations and learning objects.

• Lowers the technical bar for content experts to create media-rich learning experiences.

Who is Pachyderm?

• Authoring experience isone of progressively creatinga learning object out of interconnected screens.

• Learning objects are created on a create-publishmodel, with a final productthat may be downloaded andplaced on a web server for hosting or used locally, as ina kiosk.

Who is Pachyderm?

• Pachyderm 1.0 was initially created as an in-house application for San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) for kiosk and web learning presentations.

• Original version used proprietary technology (Microsoft, Macromedia) and constrained deployment environment.

Who is Pachyderm?

Pachyderm 2.0 created under an IMLS grant through the NMC, involving 13+ member institutions (museums and universities).

Project LeadsNew Media Consortium, SFMOMA

University PartnersCalifornia State UniversityCase Western Reserve UniversityNorthwestern UniversityUniversity of ArizonaUniversity of British ColumbiaUniversity of CalgaryUniversity of Nebraska, Lincoln

Museum PartnersBerkeley Art MuseumCleveland Museum of ArtFine Arts Museum of San FranciscoMetropolitan Museum of ArtSan Francisco Museum of Modern ArtThe Tang Museum at Skidmore College

Additional PartnersDesignWorlds For Learning

Who is Pachyderm?

• Pachyderm 2.0 created using a combination of open source and cross-platform technologies (WebObjects, Apache, ImageMagick, Jswiff, etc.)

• Deployable on all platforms (Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Unix, etc.)

• All Pachyderm 2.0 code and assets released to the community as open source under the Apache version 2.0 license.

Who is Pachyderm?

• Pachyderm 2.x is a vibrant open source project with participants throughout the higher education and museum communities.

• California State University• Marcus project in Texas (25 Art Museums)• University of Minnesota• Walters Art Museum in Baltimore• Seattle Art Museum

Who is Pachyderm?

Pachyderm Resources

http://www.pachyderm.org/

http://sourceforge.net/projects/pachyderm/

What’s She Up To Next

• Introducing….– Scott Sayre – Sandbox Studios

• http://www.pachyforge.org

A Question…

Are there ways in which it makes sense to use social media in a story telling medium?

A Modest Proposal…

Can we integrate some of steve’s features and information into Pachyderm’s existing templates and authoring environment?


How to do it?– Steve has a rich API and exposes a set of

REST interfaces to make building client side applications easy

steve-coreAPI

REST

Tagger


Steve’s High Level Architecture Drawing

Nuts and BoltsMaking a call to steve’s REST for image information

Nuts and Bolts<xml>

<Image><mimeId>1202</mimeId>

<filenameOrig>2002.109_01_g04.jpg</filenameOrig> <filename>2002.109_01_g04.jpg</filename>

<filepath>images/institution_SFMOMA/</filepath> <batchId>6</batchId>

<institutionId>7</institutionId></Image>

</xml>

XML for single steve image

steve_xml.onLoad = function(success){if (success){

xmlNode = this.firstChild;mimeId = xmlNode.firstChild.childNodes[0].firstChild.nodeValue;filename = xmlNode.firstChild.childNodes[2].firstChild.nodeValue;filepath = xmlNode.firstChild.childNodes[3].firstChild.nodeValue;loadData();

} else {

Actionscript to parse XML

Nuts and BoltsMaking a call to steve’s REST for tag information

Nuts and Bolts<xml>

<scalar><term>frolicking</term><freq>1</freq>

</scalar><scalar>

<term>festival</term><freq>1</freq>

</scalar>

XML for tags related to image

Loading the XML for Tags

function getTags() {var terms = steveTags_xml.firstChild.childNodes;for (var p=0; p<terms.length; p++){

var term = terms[p];moreTags.text = moreTags.text +

term.childNodes[0].firstChild.nodeValue + " ";}

}

Nuts and BoltsTagging the image using steve’s REST

Nuts and BoltsActionscript for Tagging image

var tagTerm = txtTag.text;

function tagImage(){var tagTerm = txtTag.text;var tagURL = restURL+"Term/addTerm/"+myToken+"|"+tagTerm+"|"+mimeId;var tagArt:LoadVars = new LoadVars();tagArt.onData = tagResponse;tagArt.load(tagURL);

}

Nuts and Bolts

Chemistry?

• As with any good relationship, Chemistry is very important…

• Does it work?

• How does it feel?

• What is it good for?

A Second Date

• Tim took Matt’s work and integrated it with existing pachy templates.

• Let’s try something a bit different…

• Use only 1 image, but this timedirect tagging inside the presentation

A Second Date

Is it True Love?

We all Have Baggage• What are the hurdles to overcome in

integrating these two existing efforts– sharing of media resources– integrating the tagger into the

authoring software– enhancing steve’s ability to

differentiate between tagger instances

Is there a future?

• You tell us. We’d like to know what you think?

• Would social tagging and user contributed content be interesting to you inside of pachyderm?

• What additional features / integration would really knock this ball out of the park?

Drop us a line!

• [email protected]




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