{"id":582042,"date":"2023-04-04T19:59:13","date_gmt":"2023-04-05T02:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/?post_type=arcnews&#038;p=582042"},"modified":"2023-04-04T17:09:57","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T00:09:57","slug":"interactive-web-app-showcases-museums-sprawling-sculpture-collection","status":"publish","type":"arcnews","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/arcnews\/interactive-web-app-showcases-museums-sprawling-sculpture-collection","title":{"rendered":"Interactive Web App Showcases Museum\u2019s Sprawling Sculpture Collection"},"author":5752,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"sync_status":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","castos_file_data":"","podmotor_file_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[425582,1041,171],"tags":[472171,279432,18732,165642,170422],"arcnews_issues":[484502],"class_list":["post-582042","arcnews","type-arcnews","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arcgis-experience-builder","category-collaboration","category-education","tag-arcgis-survey123","tag-art","tag-navigation","tag-university","tag-web-app","arcnews_issues-spring-2023","arcnews_sections-your-work"],"acf":{"short_description":"To help people find and view a university\u2019s outdoor art, a team used ArcGIS Experience Builder to create a custom app with strong visuals.","pdf":{"host_remotely":false,"file":"","file_url":""},"flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"The Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum at Florida International University (FIU) in Miami, Florida, is a 46,000-square-foot facility that houses 6,500 works of art. With a focus on contemporary art from the United States and international regions such as the Caribbean, the museum\u2019s curatorial team, led by chief curator Amy Galpin, organizes 10\u201312 exhibits each year to provide the community with free access to world-class art."},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":580242,"image_position":"right","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"As part of its collection, the Frost Art Museum has what\u2019s known as Sculpture Park, which consists of about 30 sculptures scattered around FIU\u2019s 344-acre main campus. To help students and visitors navigate the sprawling Sculpture Park and learn more about the works of art, Galpin recently worked with Diana Ter-Ghazaryan, who, at the time, was a research associate at FIU Libraries\u2019 GIS Center, to develop a virtual guide.\r\n\r\nTer-Ghazaryan, now an associate professor at the Spatial Sciences Institute at the University of Southern California, worked with a student assistant, Dan Frome, to collect data about the sculptures. They then used ArcGIS Experience Builder to transform the data into an interactive web app.\r\n\r\n\u201cLeaning into the art and leaning into the visual component of this project were easily accomplished with Experience Builder,\u201d Ter-Ghazaryan said. \u201cIt allowed us to build a customized site with strong visuals without being developers.\u201d"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<h2>A Geography Lesson Yields a Solution<\/h2>\r\nThe FIU Sculpture Park app was inspired by GeoMuse, an app resulting from collaboration between Ter-Ghazaryan and her colleague Lien Tran when they were both at the University of Miami."},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":580252,"image_position":"left","orientation":"vertical","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"While working in the University of Miami\u2019s Department of Geography, Ter-Ghazaryan had students collect the latitudes and longitudes of sculptures on campus for a lesson in using GPS. As her students completed the assignment, Ter-Ghazaryan realized that the university\u2019s printed maps of the on-campus museum\u2019s sculptures were out-of-date. To help people explore this sculpture collection virtually, Ter-Ghazaryan and Tran, who is now an assistant professor at DePaul University, applied for internal funding and assembled a group of students to build GeoMuse, an interactive web app.\r\n\r\nThe success of GeoMuse inspired Ter-Ghazaryan to propose a similar project to Galpin at FIU. Galpin was enthusiastic about the proposal because, she said, there was no central way for students and visitors to explore the outdoor collection of the Frost Art Museum\u2019s sculptures. There also wasn\u2019t much information available about the public art on campus.\r\n\r\n\u201cI definitely value the significance [of the digital space] and its opportunity to reach larger audiences,\u201d said Galpin. \u201cThis was an opportunity to create a map that people could use to find out more about the work on campus.\u201d"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<h2>A Quick, Intuitive Experience<\/h2>\r\nFor the GeoMuse app, Ter-Ghazaryan and her students worked with a developer to create a custom-built solution. At FIU, she wanted something that would be easy to deploy and maintain. So Ter-Ghazaryan and Frome, who is now a GIS specialist for Miami-Dade County, decided to use ArcGIS Experience Builder, an app builder that supports flexible layouts, content, and widgets.\r\n\r\nFrome said he knew that Experience Builder was the right choice for this project because the FIU app needed to have a strong visual component to showcase the art while also displaying descriptions of the work."},{"acf_fc_layout":"quote","image":580292,"text":"Leaning into the art and leaning into the visual component of this project were easily accomplished with Experience Builder. It allowed us to build a customized site with strong visuals without being developers.","author_name":"Diana Ter-Ghazaryan","author_profession_organization":"Associate professor, University of Southern California"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"\u201c[We wanted] something that [we] could customize to make as simple for everybody as possible but [that would also] look good and be intuitive,\u201d Frome said. Additionally, the duo wanted whoever was going to build the app to be able to do so \u201cwithout\u2026spending a year learning how to be a web developer,\u201d he added.\r\n\r\nFor both Ter-Ghazaryan and Frome, who ended up creating the app themselves, using Experience Builder was intuitive. They built the app pretty quickly.\r\n\r\n\u201cIt was a lot of jumping in and tinkering around,\u201d said Frome. \u201c[The app] kind of came together [with us] just learning about different widgets and different tools and how to implement them\u2026and learning what various functions would be helpful.\u201d"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<h2>A Smooth Development Process<\/h2>\r\nTer-Ghazaryan and Frome began the development process by getting a spreadsheet from Galpin that listed all the works she wanted to be included in the app, along with their locations. Frome then walked the FIU campus to collect the latitude and longitude of each sculpture, using ArcGIS Survey123 on his smartphone. He also took photos of the artwork.\r\n\r\nOnce all the information was gathered, Ter-Ghazaryan and Frome used Experience Builder to create a custom web app that functions on mobile and desktop devices. They experimented with different displays and buttons to ensure that the two versions were consistent and worked well."},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":580262,"image_position":"right","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"Throughout the data collection and app setup process, Ter-Ghazaryan and Frome had check-in meetings with Galpin and the museum team to update them on progress and ensure that they were creatively on the right track.\r\n\r\n\u201cThe visual component of this is really the most important. Being able to see things, being able to take a good picture and have [the app] display\u2026all that kind of stuff is really what made [Experience Builder] the obvious choice for us,\u201d Frome said. \u201c[We were] able to have something workable finished quickly without coding it from scratch.\u201d\r\n\r\nTer-Ghazaryan appreciated that Experience Builder allowed her and Frome to easily work within the cloud and connect different systems. Frome said he had to travel for several weeks during the project and yet was able to continue working on the app, which was helpful.\r\n\r\n\u201cThe connection of Experience Builder to Survey123 and the seamless connection through ArcGIS Online made it really easy and quick for us to be able to collect the data [and] bring it right in and then just deploy that web map right [in] Experience Builder,\u201d said Ter-Ghazaryan. \u201cI think that was a really important benefit of working on the cloud platform.\u201d\r\n\r\nThe final web app includes the location of each sculpture, a photo of it, and curatorial information such as the artist\u2019s name and the year the piece was produced. A map is available as well to help users with navigation."},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":580272,"image_position":"left","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<h2>A New Way for People to Engage with Art<\/h2>\r\nWith the goal of engaging the student community and the public, FIU launched the virtual Sculpture Park web app in the summer of 2021. Galpin thinks that being able to read descriptive text about each work and view large images of the sculptures are important features of the app. She also likes that it offers different views of the map, contributing to a user-friendly experience.\r\n\r\nTer-Ghazaryan pointed out that while museums often have video tours or 360-degree videos of their collections, they don\u2019t typically use maps or locations as the basis for exploring art. She thinks that FIU\u2019s Sculpture Park app provides a great way to spotlight the Frost Art Museum\u2019s outdoor sculpture collection and connect the physical and virtual realms. Moreover, Galpin stresses that the app will bring more attention to the creative works in the museum.\r\n\r\n\u201cI see this map as a holistic way in which we are realizing our mission and caring for the art in our collection and offering opportunities for the public to engage with it in different ways,\u201d she said."}],"references":null},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.9 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Interactive Web App Showcases Museum\u2019s Sprawling Sculpture Collection | Spring 2023 | ArcNews<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"To help people find and view a university\u2019s outdoor art, a team used ArcGIS Experience Builder to create a custom app with strong visuals.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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