mdinmuseum: Displaying Data

mdinmuseum is a small web app for displaying one museum’s data from museum-digital. The basic idea is to provide smaller museums with an equivalent of an in-museum app with little additional work required. It is based on the public API of museum-digital.

While it is almost completely written in JavaScript, it requires a server running PHP for settings.

Features

• An interface to the data of a single museum from museum-digitial.
• Event and exhibition calendar
• “Tour”: Opening object information based on markers (requires js-aruco)

Installation

To begin the installation, clone this repository and js-aruco (the tour feature can’t be disabled yet).

git clone https://github.com/jrenslin/mdinmuseum.git .
cd static
git clone https://github.com/jcmellado/js-aruco.git
cd ..

Next, the configuration-relevant files need to be created.

cp markers.json.sample markers.json && cp config.php.sample config.php

The source instance of museum-digital and the museum ID need to be entered in config.php. Using markers.json, aruco markers can be mapped to object IDs.

To-Do

• Make it possible to toggle the tour feature using config.json.

Notes

Fonts and icons have been removed from the public repository.

Credits

• Photos
  • Ryoji Iwata / Unsplash
  • julian mora / Unsplash
  • Rey Seven / Unsplash
  • Erol Ahmed / Unsplash
  • Steven Garcia / Unsplash