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A system for capturing, developing and profiling an individual's interests in various sites, exhibits or items on display at an institution or facility and providing site- and/or theme-specific information based on these interests. The system preferably includes a collection of information associate

A system for capturing, developing and profiling an individual's interests in various sites, exhibits or items on display at an institution or facility and providing site- and/or theme-specific information based on these interests. The system preferably includes a collection of information associated with the sites, exhibits or items on display at an institution or facility, which is organized and is capable of being indexed by each particular site, exhibit or item location or item on display. The preferred system further includes a plurality of portable information storage devices, such as, for example, smart cards having non-volatile memory cable of being organized into a specialized data structure, uniquely assigned to visitors to such institutions or facilities. The data structure on the portable information storage device contains various fields including those designed to store biographical information about the visitor and an interest profile comprised of indexes relating to the sites, exhibits or items on display at such institutions or facilities identified and selected by the visitor. The system further includes means for allowing the visitor to select a particular site, exhibit or item of interest and for recording an index relating to the selection in the interest profile on the portable information storage device assigned to that particular visitor. Preferably, the system further includes means, such as, for example, an informational kiosk, for reading the stored indexes from the portable information storage devices and for retrieving the collected exhibit information related to those indexes stored on the portable information storage device by the visitor.

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[ We claim:] [1.] A system for providing information to a person or group of persons relating to items on display for viewing at one or more exhibit locations, the system comprising:a. a database of information coordinated with the exhibit locations and/or the items on display, the information being

[ We claim:] [1.] A system for providing information to a person or group of persons relating to items on display for viewing at one or more exhibit locations, the system comprising:a. a database of information coordinated with the exhibit locations and/or the items on display, the information being indexed to correspond to the exhibit locations using one or more exhibit indexes and/or to the items using one or more item indexes;b. one or more portable information storage devices, each device being assigned to a specified person or group of persons and having means for storing one or more exhibit indexes and/or item indexes;c. means for allowing each person or group of persons to select one or more of the exhibits and/or items as being of interest to that person or group of persons and for recording the corresponding one or more exhibit indexes and/or item indexes on the portable information storage device assigned to that person or group of persons, such selection and recording occurring contemporaneously with the person or group of persons viewing the items on display;d. means for retrieving the recorded exhibit indexes and/or item indexes from each of the portable information storage devices after the person or group of person has completed viewing the items on display;e. means for retrieving from the database the information corresponding to the exhibit indexes and/or item indexes retrieved from each portable information storage device; andf. means for communicating the retrieved database information to each person or group of persons who selected as being of interest the exhibits and/or items to which that information corresponds.