Assessment Metrics for the Representations of Highlight Artifacts in a Virtual Museum: A Case Study of Egyptian Artifacts

Abstract

With the development of digital society, more and more museums have digitalized their artifacts with details and put together highlights for visitors to view the selected representations of the virtual collections. It becomes very crucial to evaluate the representations of these highlight artifacts. A set of novel assessment metrics for quantitatively assessing the representations of highlight artifacts from six aspects in a virtual museum are presented in this paper. These assessment respects include the periodization representation ratio index, geography representation ratio index, object type representation ratio index, figures depicted representation ratio index, material representation ratio index, and size representation ratio index. A case study of Egyptian artifacts in a virtual museum with practical data shows the effectiveness of the proposed metrics for assessing the representations of highlight artifacts in a virtual museum.