SMEP (Science Museum Exhibition Platform) for Sharing and exchange system of natural history collection

Abstract

Here, we introduce the SMEP (Science Museum Exhibition Platform) system, which is aimed to construct a platform for sharing and exchanging the science museum exhibits and information for museum staff, focusing on natural history collections. The SMEP system currently provides a total of 3030 data of museum exhibits for 11 museums currently, including all the exhibit types of science museum with 6971 images for them. Among them, the natural history collections are a total of 1152 data for eight museums. The loan system of SMEP enables to exchange the collections between museums. A prototype data portal of the SMEP system is operated and will be opened after the further functional review process in later. It is expected that this platform would improve the level of collections in the science museum and create new value by allowing interchange and exchange of collections in science museum.

Keywords

• Natural history collection
• Platform
• Science museum
• Sharing