This page is part of the documentation on the MOOseum Tools Project, a collaboration between Kalí Tal and ConnectionsMOO. The purpose of this project is to provide a suite of tools based on a museum metaphor to humanities scholars who are interested in integrating new media technology into their courses. The tools, currently under development, will be distributed freely as a suite, and will run on LambdaCore, JHCore and enCOre MOOs. If you are interested in beta testing these tools, contact Kalí Tal.
Items typed <inside angle brackets> should be typed without the brackets when you give commands on the MOO. For instance, if you saw the following command:
@create #624 named <name of your animatronic>
You would type:
@create #624 MyAnimatronicName
[The generic basic MOOseum exhibit object, created by Percival/Tari, 7/31/99. Questions, problems, bug reports to Percival/Tari.]
The basic MOOseum exhibit object can be used in MOOseum exhibits. In addition to naming and describing your exhibit object the same way you do for any other MOO object, you can add provenance and references information to your object.
To create a basic MOOseum exhibit object, first make a child of the generic basic MOOseum exhibit object:
@create #225 named <name of your object>')
To view the provenance for an object:
prov for <object>
To view the references for an object:
ref for <object>
There are several generic MOOseum Objects besides #255. There is also a Generic Basic MOOseum version of $furniture (#366) , $container (#616) $openable_container (#632) and $note (#395). The marked difference is the ability to add provenance and references to these objects, which is not present in their parents. To create those objects, simply substitute the number of the generic MOOseum object you wish to create, and follow the steps listed above.
Once you @create your Generic MOOseum Furniture Object:
Then you'll need to set up the furniture so that people can sit on it. This is somewhat complicated. If you do `look $furniture', you'll see brief setup instructions; if you have trouble with those instructions, use the furniture tutorial at http://web.nwe.ufl.edu/~tari/connections/furniture.html. When consulting those instructions, remember that you want to make a child of #366 and not a child of $furniture. Everything else in those instructions applies to the generic MOOseum furniture as well as to the regular $furniture.
Only the owner of an exhibit object can do the following commands:
To add a provenance field to an object:
@prov <object> is <Whatever you want to say.>
To clear the provenance field for an object:
@prov <object> is
(In other words, enter the command, but don't enter any text.)
If you want to use an editor to fill in your provenance field, enter:
@edit <object>.provenance
(You'll be sent to the in-MOO note editor, or to your local editor, depending on which option you use for editing.)
To add references to an object:
@ref <object> is <Whatever you want to say.>
To clear the references field for an object:
@ref <object> is
(In other words, enter the command, but don't enter any text.)
If you want to use an editor to fill in your references field, enter:
@edit <object>.references
(You'll be sent to the in-MOO note editor, or to your local editor, depending on which option you use for editing.)
*The provenance of an object is the object's story: dates, makers, owners, circumstances of its discovery, testing, information on how it came to the museum, etc. The provenance of a silver tea set might say something like, "Maker: Paul Revere, 1768. Commissioned by Mrs. Robert Johns as a wedding gift for her daughter Theresa Johns Smith. Purchased by the museum from the 1975 estate sale of Thomas Brown, great-great grandson of Theresa Smith."
**The references field of a MOOseum object is intended as a place for the owner of an exibit object to refer the viewer to further sources of information on subjects related to the object; the references on a silver tea set made by Paul Revere might refer the viewer to books or URLs about Paul Revere or about tea sets of the period.
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