E-museum: web-based tour and information system for museums

Abstract

A web-based system - consisting of data entrance, access and retrieval modules - is constructed for museums. Internet users that visit the e-museum, are able to view the written and visual information belonging to the artworks in the museum, are able to follow the virtual tour prepared for the different sections of the museum, are able to browse the artworks according to certain properties, are able to search the artworks having the similar visual content with the viewed artwork. © 2006 IEEE.