Conveyor

Major museums worldwide are increasingly using interactive multimedia presentations to enhance the public's understanding and enjoyment of their collections. Unfortunately, such presentations have been extremely expensive to develop, placing them beyond the reach of all but the best-funded organizations. Until now, that is.

Following extensive research into the needs of the museum community, The Regency Town House heritage centre produced 'Conveyor', an economical and simple-to-use multimedia authoring system. Designed by museum people, for museum people, Conveyor enables an organizations staff to take images, texts, sounds, animations and videos and simply insert them into the framework of a pre-formatted interactive presentation. There's no programming involved!

History

Initial funding for Conveyor's development in the UK was provided by the British Government's Department for Culture, Media and Sport. Subsequent collaborative projects with European partners has resulted in versions being produced for museums in the Netherlands and Belgium, With support from the American Express Foundation the Conveyor system has been extended to meet the needs of the wider museum community with versions of Conveyor being delivered to Singapore, the Philippines, Malaysia, and Taiwan. Taiwan's software is available in English and Mandarin.

The Conveyor software system is now being updated, during a two year project started in late-2006. The improved version will offer users a wider set of authoring styles and screen resolutions, will be available in more languages and will produce presentations for in-gallery use, distributable media and the world wide web.

Further information about Conveyor development will be posted here in due course.