{"id":174,"date":"2007-04-21T22:04:18","date_gmt":"2007-04-21T21:04:18","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-11-18T15:05:52","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T15:05:52","slug":"missing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/variousbits.net\/2007\/04\/21\/missing\/","title":{"rendered":"Physical world connection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Here’s a question. Has anyone done anything in the museum context with 2d barcodes, semacodes, phone barcode readers…?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nokia is piloting some stuff which is going to help the momentum – barcode readers are now standard on a few of their N series phones. Also Microsoft is sniffing around too. At one point there was a link to some stuff on their “Live Ideas” pages but it seems to be redundant now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The basic idea in case you don’t know is to tag real world stuff (including, potentially, museum objects) with “2d barcodes” (see example below). Pointing your cameraphone at the code – provided it has software installed – delivers content, or takes you to a url.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Until now this has been a great idea but problematic – as per my previous post<\/a> about My Art Space<\/a>, the number of people likely to install software on their mobile is extremely limited. But <\/strong>once a telco begins taking this seriously and shipping phones with software pre-installed, stuff will definitely begin to happen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Have a look at The Pondering Primate<\/a> for a great lowdown on what’s happening in this space. There’s also a list of the Physical World Connection<\/em><\/a> companies – it’s an absolutely saturated space, just waiting for a leadning standard to emerge<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here’s the Nokia barcode for www.electronicmuseum.org.uk:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here’s a question. Has anyone done anything in the museum context with 2d barcodes, semacodes, phone barcode readers…? Nokia is piloting some stuff which is going to help the momentum – barcode readers are now standard on a few of their N series phones. Also Microsoft is sniffing around too. At one point there was … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/variousbits.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/variousbits.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/variousbits.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/variousbits.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/variousbits.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/variousbits.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/variousbits.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/variousbits.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/variousbits.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}