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• NATIONAL GALLERY OF CANADA VIRTUAL TOUR

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Initial Situation:

The National Gallery of Canada (NGC) wanted an interactive tour similar to the one on the Tate Britain Art Gallery website. N-VisionIT Interactive and Teknision Inc. collaborated to build both Flash and HTML tours of the NGC. We built the database-driven functions of the tour and created the HTML version.

N-VisionIT Interactive Solutions:

We built the Flash backend by creating XML schemas for the different functions and Teknision Inc. incorporated the schemas into their Flash programming. We enhanced the NGC's database to include additional information about the rooms of the gallery (e.g. name, description, floor, public/private, etc.) to facilitate browsing and accurate representation of the art on display.

Gallery staff can identify the location of an artwork whether in storage, on loan, or on display so that the representation of the collections on the interactive tour remains accurate and shows only artwork currently on display. We also added the new functionality that would allow gallery staff to designate 'show rooms' which take users to information about special exhibitions (e.g. dates, description, etc.).

Results:

Client is pleased with functionality and appearance. Client has also expressed appreciation of our accommodation of complex development environment infrastructure and security requirements and our responsiveness to alterations.