Comments on: Physical world connection http://electronicmuseum.org.uk/2007/04/21/missing/ musings about electronic culture Mon, 09 Jan 2012 14:02:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Frankie Roberto http://electronicmuseum.org.uk/2007/04/21/missing/#comment-16 Tue, 24 Apr 2007 23:05:23 +0000 http://electronicmuseum.wordpress.com/2007/04/21/missing/#comment-16 Semapedia (a project to distribute semacodes, or QTags for Wikipedia article) is also worth checking out.

]]> By: Juha http://electronicmuseum.org.uk/2007/04/21/missing/#comment-14 Mon, 23 Apr 2007 09:16:52 +0000 http://electronicmuseum.wordpress.com/2007/04/21/missing/#comment-14 Hi Mike, I have looked back into our documents, and the application worked (or was supposed to work) as follows: you took a picture of the barcode, which you then sent to a specified e-mail address, which then replied you with an url per sms, which you had to follow to get the information on the painting that was already there on the wall in the first place, thanks to Alfredd Barr decades ago. But since you had to take a picture of the image, and not scan it, you were dependent on the amount of light in the museum, which, being at night, was not very illuminated.
But, as the press release stated, this was a pilot. Maybe we should add kamikaze.

Juha

]]> By: Mike http://electronicmuseum.org.uk/2007/04/21/missing/#comment-11 Mon, 23 Apr 2007 08:38:02 +0000 http://electronicmuseum.wordpress.com/2007/04/21/missing/#comment-11 Hey Juha, very interesting – thanks for that. Certainly when I’ve used barcode software in the past, it has been flaky at best. In fact, now I’ve got a Nokia 6230i I can’t seem to find any software which works with it at all…

Will check out the links you mention

Mike

]]> By: Juha van 't Zelfde http://electronicmuseum.org.uk/2007/04/21/missing/#comment-10 Mon, 23 Apr 2007 00:44:46 +0000 http://electronicmuseum.wordpress.com/2007/04/21/missing/#comment-10 Hi Mike,

we have some experience from the 2005 Museum Night in Amsterdam, where we used 2d barcodes for the first time in a few museums. The experiment did not pass the test of taking pictures with your mobile phone at night , and was not repeated. Although we are in touch with Dutch operator KPN about mobile projects, and would love to look into mobile applications.
I have also been in touch with Ulla Mutanen from Helsinki, from ThinkLink, and she might have more experience with this. Or perhaps the people from Aula (http://aula.cc) might be able to help, since they are involved with Nokia.
Hope this is of any use to you.

All the best,

Juha

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