Using Web-services for accessing and sharing multimedia resources in distributed digital museum

In a digital museum exhibition management system, two major issues need to be addressed. The first is regarding the efficient hypermedia generation for virtual exhibitions. The second is regarding the efficient access of multimedia items in a heterogeneous environment where distributed digital museum resource management servers may locate at different institutes. We present a research project that incorporate the NCNU and INRIA research effort for developing a Web services-based distributed digital museum content management framework. We first discuss our design of a multistyles exhibition management framework using XSL for adaptive hypermedia presentation. Then, an endeavor that applies Web service architecture for multimedia data access on both keyword-based and content-based media retrieval scenario has been addressed.