The following section gives an overview about the SCALEX consortium and will motivate the structure of the consortium, which reflects the technical and business goals of the SCALEX project. The consortium consists of the following partners:
adm™ (A)
ADM will take care of the definition of the system with special regard to: State of the Art, Standarisation, data migration and interoperability; integrating existing museum content management systems, definition of didactic requirements specific for museums, definition of the needs and profiles of visitors.
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ars electronica center (A)
Planning, coordinaton and realisation of evaluation and dissemination within the museum. Development of installation design.
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c3 (H)
C3 will focus on: development in the realm of user-profiles, especially user-tracking, development in the realm of network integration and terminal technology, evaluation of the prototype. C3 will install the finished system in the C3-exhibition area.
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Fachhochschule Joanneum - Studiengang Informations-Design (A)
The FH Joanneum will be the project co-ordinator. FHJ will on one side focus on interaction design and usability engineering, and on the other side FHJ is responsible for didactical aspects of exhibition scenography.
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Institut für Film und Bild in Wissenschaft und Unterricht (D)
FWU will define user requirements in the view of teachers and students as end users and define test scenarios for the use in school. FWU will assist the beta testing of the software in school and evaluate the use in class. FWU will dissiminate the software on the educational market in Germany.
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Joanneum Research (A)
Joanneum Research, Institute of Information Systems and Information Management, will be involved in the system specification as well as be the main responsible technical partner for the implemantation of the knowledge editor.
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Lost Boys Interactive BV (NL)
Lost Boys will bear the responsability for the successfull marketing and dissemination of the product. It is the most important business partner of the consortium. By consulting and reviewing it will oversee the commercial aspects of the product development.
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Národní Technické Muzeum (CZ)
TMW will define user requirements and evaluate the SCALEX software. TMW plans to integrate the proposed SCALEX application into one of his collections and put it on permanent display in the museum and on the Internet.
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Technisches Museum Wien (A)
TMW will define user requirements and evaluate the SCALEX software. TMW plans to integrate the proposed SCALEX application into one of his collections and put it on permanent display in the museum and on the Internet.
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Universität Linz - Depart of Business Information Systems (A)
The University of Linz, Department of Business Information Systems, Communications Engineering will be responsible for guiding and implementing research developments in the project. Conceptual inputs will be provided for meta-modeling and adaptation of applications to and in the context of use.
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Universiteit van Amsterdam (NL)
Universiteit van Amsterdam will deploy its expertise in 1) user requirement research in system specification, 2) representation of cultural knowledge in developing user aid tools, and museology in developing and testing the exhibition player. UvA will also act as a liaison manager between the end users and technical developers.
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ZKM - Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie (D)
Conceptual input with regard to the curator’s needs of a museum for media art; continuous evaluation of the results of the project, especially in his didactical aspects, evaluation of the prototype. It will use the finished software for its own exhibitions.
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