Loki – mobile localization and wiki-based information for museums

Abstract

In search of new target groups and in purpose to forge strong links to existing target groups museums try to use the support by technical features. Both, the internet for external communication and local technical infrastructures in the exhibitions, are used in that context. This paper introduces a research project which combines both aspects. An increasing number of museums present parts of their exhibitions in a digitized way as virtual exhibitions in the internet. Often information as well as interactive and entertaining elements are integrated in those presentations. In the physical (“real”) exhibition the digitized information and especially interactive elements and presentation are used rarely. This situation gave the idea for the Loki-project which aims at a wiki-based application used in physical exhibitions.