Nobili on Mobile! When the scientific instruments exhibitions are at your fingertips

• Authors: Carlos Adriano Cardoso , Décio Ruivo Martins

Abstracts

EN

This paper presents a general view of a proposal for a digital reinterpretation of a collection of scientific instruments belonging to the Physics Cabinet of the Science Museum of the University of Coimbra. In this cataloging, the local and global aspects of each instrument are inventoried and represented by a semantic network of concepts, facts, ideas, and narratives, resulting in a knowledge base about scientific physics instruments. This knowledge base will be made available to students, researchers, and the general public through a mobile phone application. The article also offers a review of the transformations of the conceptual models of material culture studies related to scientific instruments and adds some contributions to this field of study.

Keywords

EN

history of science; scientific instruments; communication in science museums; sematic web; wiki

PL

instrumenty naukowe; komunikacja w muzeach nauki; sieć semantyczna; Wiki; historia nauki

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Jagielloński
• Journal: Opuscula Musealia
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 27
• Pages: 83-100

Dates

published

2020

Contributors

author

Carlos Adriano Cardoso

• CfisUC ‒ Centro de Física da Universidade de Coimbra. Portugalia

• https://orcid.org/0000000330884639

author

Décio Ruivo Martins

• CfisUC ‒ Centro de Física da Universidade de Coimbra. Portugalia

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Identifiers

DOI

10.4467/20843852.OM.20.005.13744

Biblioteka Nauki

2171375