CAPS™ -- Capture/Author/Playback System

CAPS is for making presentations from images found in web catalogs such as MWeb™.

How It Works

Creating a presentation has these steps:

1. Using MWeb or MWeb Flash, explore a museum's collections and save your Favorites.
2. Start CAPS, then select which list of Favorites to work with. This can be a list on the museum's server, or a list you have already worked with.

   Lists on the server are downloaded automatically when you select them.

   When you download a list, you get the thumbnails, full-size images, and data.

3. Choose the template you want to publish with, such as Comparison (two images side-by-side), Slideshow, Timeline, Online Exhibit, etc.
4. Add your comments and notes to the presentation or individual items. Search MWeb to download additional items to the list. You may also copy or move items from one list to another.
5. Modify colors, layout, fonts, etc. Add special effects such as sound or transitions. CAPS presentations are Adobe Flash, so you can have rich multimedia content.
6. Test the presentation and work on it until you are satisfied.
7. Publish your presentation so you can distribute it to your friends, your colleagues, your students, or your website. CAPS presentations can be published as Flash applications to run in a browser from your server, or as Adobe AIR applications so no browser or web connection is required. Both Flash and AIR run on Windows, Mac, and Linux computers.

Other Features

CAPS is extensible. You can design your own templates in Flash or Flex, add media, and add images from other sources.

Online catalogs besides MWeb that can generate XML files in the required format can also be used. (More information will be provided later.)

CAPS is currently in development. We hope to have it ready for beta testing later in 2010.