The Royal Ontario Museum Kiosks
Details
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.
The Front End – Public
Available only through the kiosks located at the Royal Ontario Museum.
The Front End – Kiosk Manager
(Internal Project) The Kiosk Manager allows us to:
- Add/Modify/Remove kiosks
- Monitor kiosk status
- Update kiosk status
The Front End – Analytics
(Internal Project) The Kiosk Analytics allows us to review and analyze user’s interest and navigation behaviour among other things.
Documentation
The Ecosystems
The Schad gallery contains nine ecosystems:
- Arctic
- Boreal Forest
- Coral Reef
- Coral Reef Aquarium
- Grass Lands
- Great Lakes
- Migration
- Tropical Forest
- Western Atlantic
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.
1. Arctic
2. Boreal Forest
3. Coral Reef
4. Coral Reef Aquarium
5. Grass Lands
6. Great Lakes
7. Migration
8. Tropical Forest
9. Western Atlantic
