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, 8/15/99. Questions, problems, bug reports to Percival/Tari.]
The generic MOOseum conversational bot is a child of the generic conversational bot, a simple conversational bot. The generic conversational bot is based on one written by cdr@MediaMOO, ported to MOOville by joey@MOOville, further modified by Percival/Tari@MOOville and Bradley/Murdock@MOOville, and then ported to Connections by Percival/Tari (5/1/99). The MOOseum version includes provenance and references properties.
The bot listens to conversations and, when it hears one of its keywords, repeats its corresponding key phrase. The owner can add or remove keywords and phrases to the bot.
If you want your own child of this bot:
@create #343 named <whatever you want to name your bot>
To wake the bot up so it will listen to the conversation and respond to its keywords:
activate <bot>
To put the bot to sleep so that it stops listening and responding:
hush <bot>
To see a list of the keywords and phrases the bot currently knows:
keys <bot>
This command only works for you if you are the bot's owner, or the bot's owner has made the keyword list public.
To read the provenance card for the bot:
prov for <bot>
To read the references card for the bot:
ref for <bot>
To add a keyword and response phrase to the bot:
addpat <bot>
Simply enter the command and you'll see instructions about what to type in next.
To remove a key from the bot:
remove <number> from <botname>
For example:
remove 4 from bot
will remove the 4th keyword from the bot.
To find out the number of a keyword, use the `keys <bot>' command; the numbers of the keywords appear in that list.
To decide whether the bot's keyword list is public or private:
toggle_keys <botname>
When you enter that command, you'll be told what the current setting is and asked whether you want it changed.
To add a provenance field to a bot:
@prov <bot> is <Whatever you want to say.>
To clear the provenance field for a bot:
@prov <bot> 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 <bot>.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 a bot:
@ref <bot> is <Whatever you want to say.>
To clear the references field for a bot:
@ref <bot> 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 <bot>.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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