Dynamic curation and exhibition system.
This web application is the main component of the Lively Exhibition system (see below). It provides the backend that runs in the museum, and the front-end used by the administrators to configure the system, the curators to create exhibitions, as well as the front-end that runs in the client display stations.
Powered by Rails 6.1 on Ruby 2.6.
The Lively Exhibition system allows fast and dynamic curation of exhibitions from videos and photos donated to a museum by their community. Museum staff can easily assemble an exhibition by selecting images from the system’s collection and placing them on different screens in the space.
The system empowers the museum community to participate in the creation of exhibitions. They can donate images easily through a website, even from their phones during a visit.
The project was developed for an installation at the Fasnachtsmuseum Schloss Langenstein.
Picture from a Lively Exhibition setup at the closure event of the Museum 4punkt0 project at Haus Bastian in Berlin on June 24, 2022. We used an Intel NUC computer (11 i3 PAH) as server and six screens (Samsung 43" UHD 4K Signage QH43R) to show 3 live-curated exhibitions. The data was gathered from art, photography and user images and videos for the carnival in 2022 by the Fasnachtsmuseum Schloss Langenstein.
This package is part of the project museum4punkt0 - Digital Strategies for the Museum of the Future, sub-project Kulturgut Fastnacht digital (Lively Exhibition). The project museum4punkt0 is funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media in accordance with a resolution issued by the German Bundestag (Parliament of the Federal Republic of Germany). Further information: www.museum4punkt0.de
Check docs/server-setup.md for instructions on how to setup the server (with all dependencies) and install the app.
Dependencies are specified in the docs/server-setup.md document. However,
we list the main ones here for convenience:
- Ruby 2.6
- Rails 6.1
- node.js v12
- yarn
- git
- curl
- nginx
- PostgreSQL
- libpq-dev
- redis
- ImageMagick (not installed by rails) for building the image previews.
- ffmpeg (not installed by rails) for building the video previews.
hilbert-gallery-sequencer
The system was tested under Ubuntu 22.04, on which we based the installation instructions. It should work on other Linux distributions as well. The installation instructions might differ in terms of:
- dependencies and their versions
- package manager commands
- creation and configuration of system services
Basic configuration can be found in config/application.rb and config/environments for
environment specific overrides. All keys are commented.
Secrets have to be set by running
EDITOR="vi" rails credentials:edit
from the root project directory.
Check docs/cookbook.md for several typical maintenance actions.
See ARCHITECTURE.md.
Developed by Eric Londaits eric.londaits@imaginary.org for IMAGINARY gGmbH.
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Licensed under the MIT license (see the LICENSE file).