New Utility Download: Flickr Sync Tool

The Flickr Sync Tool is a utility with which you can download pictures and videos from Flickr and dynamically generate CML files based on user-defined templates for use in your CML driven projects. Click here to download

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New Exhibit Download: Moon Landing Gigapixel

The gigapixel moon-landing exhibit is a multitouch interface that allows scrolling of a gigapixel moon-landing image. Hotspots on the gigapixel open information panels with slideshows of images and descriptive text. This exhibit also includes a vertical scrolling image gallery. The … Continue reading

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New Exhibit Download: Album Viewer

The album viewer exhibit is a multitouch interface that allows fullscreen images and videos accompanied by a description overlay panel. The exhibit is fully configured in CML to support easy customization of features. Each image and video can have an … Continue reading

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Open Exhibits at-a-glance

We’ve been keeping tabs on the Open Exhibits community and its activities for the past year and have put together this simple infographic using infogr.am to provide a quick snapshot of the community at this point in time: http://infogr.am/Open-Exhibits-262/  

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Ideum at the AAM Annual Meeting and MuseumExpo

Ideum will be attending this month’s American Alliance of Museum’s Annual Meeting and MuseumExpo in Baltimore, May 19-22. We’ll be at Booth #501 - come see our Platform 3M 46 touch table, Presenter 55 touch wall, and our Open Exhibits Collection Viewer application. The MuseumExpo opening event begins on Monday, … Continue reading

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Open Exhibits SDK 2.6.1

We’ve released a patch update for the Open Exhibits SDK – version 2.6.1. This release addresses several outstanding issues as well as a couple of issues that were introduced in 2.6.0. This update is highly recommended for version 2.6.0 users. … Continue reading

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Collection Viewer Paired with CollectiveAccess

The Open Exhibits Collection Viewer now has the ability to pull from collection data in CollectiveAccess collection management software. Catalog objects and metadata in CollectiveAccess are queried and pulled into the Collection Viewer interface for interactive browsing of museum or … Continue reading

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Open Exhibits SDK 2.6

We’re pleased to announce a major release for the Open Exhibits SDK – version 2.6. This release is packed with new components, features, and bug fixes. We’ve made it possible to connect the gesture analysis engine to just about any device. As … Continue reading

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Open Exhibits at Museums and the Web and AAM Annual Conferences

We have a couple of conferences coming up in April and May: Museums and the Web in Portland, April 17-20. In addition to an exhibit booth, we will be doing a workshop on Open Exhibits, our free multitouch software for museums and educational institutions. The … Continue reading

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Open Exhibits Workshop at Museums and the Web 2013

Open Exhibits is presenting a workshop at the Museums and the Web 2013 conference in Portland, Oregon on Wednesday April 17. The Open Exhibits workshop will explore the technology and design aspects of multitouch, multi-user exhibit development through hands-on application … Continue reading

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