ARCO is a research project, funded by the European Union, aimed at developing technology for museums to create 3D virtual exhibitions within the museums and on the Web. Virtual exhibition building begins by digitising selected museum artefacts. The result of digitisation is a virtual representation in VRML/X3D together with descriptive metadata in XML. A database content management application, together with X-VRML technology, allows museums to easily construct a virtual exhibition. X-VRML defines the virtual museum layout and allows dynamic updates of the virtual exhibition by simply changing the database contents. An ARCO prototype was demonstrated at COMDEX Fall 2002.

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