The Royal Ontario Museum hosts a wide variety of kiosks throughout all of its galleries, presentations and exhibitions. The kiosks discussed here belong to the Schad gallery which contains nine ecosystems. These ecosystems are further discussed in the Documentation section.
Available only through the kiosks located at the Royal Ontario Museum.
(Internal Project) The Kiosk Manager allows us to:
(Internal Project) The Kiosk Analytics allows us to review and analyze user’s interest and navigation behaviour among other things.
The Schad gallery contains nine ecosystems:
Each of these ecosystems content is maintained by a wide chain of ROM staff including Curators, Content Editors and Translators.
Currently, the content is updated through Excel Spreadsheets which it is then extracted and transformed into sqlite databases by Ruby which is finally fed back into the kiosk.
The presence of spreadsheets will be removed in future releases and will be replaced by web forms.