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Mubil, a Digital Laboratory: Creating an Interactive Visitor Experience in a Library-Museum Environment

angeleta — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 15:19:05 +0000

MW2012

Alexandra Angeletaki, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) University library, Gunnerus branch, Trondheim, Norway
Marcello Carrozzino, Percro laboratory, Scuola Santa Anna, Pisa, Italy.
Chiara Evangelista, Percro laboratory, Scuola Santa Anna, Pisa, Italy.
Letizia Jaccheri Department of Computer and Information Science, NTNU, Norway

Program Item Reference:

Mubil Digital Laboratory: A Demonstration

Digital Environment for Cultural Interfaces: Promoting Heritage, Education and Research

puffo25 — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 23:43:12 +0000

MW2011

Andrea de Polo, Alinari 24 ORE SpA, Italy

http://www.decipher-research.eu/

Abstract

DECIPHER proposes new solutions to the whole range of narrative construction, knowledge visualisation and display problems, with a high degree of future proofing. It will produce a step change in the process by combining much richer, event-based metadata with causal reasoning models. This will result in a reasoning engine, virtual environment and interfaces that can present digital heritage objects as part of a coherent narrative, directly related to individual searches and user contexts. This will allow users to interactively assemble, visualise and explore, not just collections of objects, but the knowledge structures that connect and give them meaning.

Keywords: digital heritage, semantic Web, 3D, immersive navigation, virtual environment, cultural knowledge

Program Item Reference:

DECIPHER-Digital Environment for Cultural Interfaces; Promoting Heritage, Education and Research European Based Research Project

Closing Plenary: Mind the GAP – Reflections on the Google Art Project

dbear — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 16:45:55 +0000

Type:

Session

Theme:

plenary

Chair:

David Bearman

Programs:

Google Art Project and The Metropolitan Museum

Google Art Project and the National Gallery, London

Panel Discussion and Q&A about the Google Art Project

Date & Time:

April 9, 2011 - 4:00pm - 5:00pm

Location:

Commonwealth A/B/C/D

Google Art Project

scanning

collections online

street-view

art collections

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Archives & Museum Informatics EIN: 77-0708617; GST / BN 887978914

Description

The Google Art Project's walk-through of 17 art galleries from around the world has raised many questions about strategies to represent museums and their collections online: http://www.googleartproject.com/

In the MW2011 Closing Plenary, we'll explore these issues with representatives of institutions who participated in the Google Art Project.

Casgliad y Werin Cymru - People’s Collection Wales: combining museum, library, archive, broadcaster and user-generated content to create “Wales in a website”.

Tom Pert — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 14:10:56 +0000

MW2011

Published Paper:

Casgliad y Werin Cymru – People's Collection Wales: Combining Museum, Library, Archive, Broadcaster and User-Generated Content to Create "Wales in a Website"

Keywords:

user-generated

Keywords:

open-source

Keywords:

API

Keywords:

geo-spatial

Keywords:

apps

Abstract:

Casgliad y Werin Cymru – The People’s Collection Wales is more than just a website, it is a collaborative and federated programme developed by national institutions to tell the story of a nation from the perspective of its people. Drawing upon the memories, photographs, video, audio and 3D resources of national, regional and local archives, as well as user-generated content from groups and individuals, the website is creating a resource that places heritage media in its temporal and spatial context, and encourages all users not just to view but to contribute and re-use this media in innovative ways.

In the proposed paper, staff from the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales, the National Museum Wales, the National Library of Wales, and the People’s Collection Wales’ Programme Manager will explain the development of this open-source system which integrates material from organisations with very different business models and data structures, and blends it through its API into a set of geo-aware digital cultural heritage resources that make sense to the end-user.

The speakers will explain the federated management model under which the programme operates, a model that draws upon the strengths of all partners to make the whole greater than the sum of its parts. Speakers will make clear the moderation system that has been implemented to ensure that all material uploaded to the site is legal and can be re-used by others for educational and non-commercial purposes.

The People’s Collection Wales has innovation at its core – the site already operates on multiple platforms, with novel tools and apps developed to assist users to create new, and re-use existing resources; the development and application of these will be explored.

The StoryBuilder tool allows users to bring together image, audio and video items from the site and repackage them, through an intuitive online movie-maker style tool, into brand new video sequences with their own metadata and spatio-temporal context.
Using the TrailBuilder tool, users can create geographical trails with related media located along a route. Each trail becomes an item in the People’s Collection, to be viewed online, printed or delivered to smartphones via the free Trails Cymru app.
The Trails Cymru app itself not only enables the user to access and view trails from the People’s Collection Wales system, it is also a tool for creating trails in the field. Using the app it is possible to record a route, capture geo-located audio, video and images along this route and upload the finished trail to the People’s Collection Wales website direct from the smartphone.

The People’s Collection Labs provides a showcase area for the most innovative developments in digital heritage presentation in Wales, and acts as a portal for developers to communicate their ideas on webGIS, augmented-reality, laser scanning, visualisation, and all that’s new in online presentation of heritage media. The latest developments arising from the People’s Collection Wales’ ongoing innovation programme will be explained.

Type:

Paper - in formal session

User-Generated Community

Site:

http://www.peoplescollectionwales.com

Authors:

Tom Pert

Dafydd James

Cultural Data Sculpting: Omni-spatial interactive visualization for large scale heterogeneous datasets

sarah kenderdine — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 09:31:13 +0000

MW2011

Published Paper:

Cultural Data Sculpting: Omni-spatial Visualization for Large Scale Heterogeneous Datasets

Keywords:

linguistics

Keywords:

heterogenous datasets

Keywords:

heterogenous datasets

Keywords:

360-degrees

Keywords:

archaeology

Abstract:

This paper presents a three research projects currently underway to develop new omni-spatial visualization strategies for the collaborative interrogation of large-scale heterogeneous cultural datasets using the worlds’ first 360-degree stereoscopic visualization environment (Advanced Visualization and Interaction Environment - AVIE). The AVIE system enables visualization modalities through full body immersion, stereoscopy, spatialized sound and camera-based tracking. The research integrates ground-breaking work by a renowned group of international investigators in virtual environment design, immersive interactivity, data visualization, museology, cultural analytics and computational linguistics. The work is being implemented at the newly established world-leading research facility, City University’s Applied Laboratory for Interactive Visualization and Embodiment – ALIVE).

For researchers currently, interactive, immersive and collaborative techniques to explore large-scale datasets lack adequate experimental development essential to the construction of knowledge in analytic discourse (Pike et al. 2009). Recent visualization research remains constrained to 2D small-screen based analysis and advances interactive techniques of “clicking”, “dragging” and “rotating” (Lee et al. 2009, Speer et al. 2010:9) Furthermore, the number of pixels available to the user remains a critical limiting factor in human cognition of data visualizations (Kasik et al., 2009). The increasing trend towards research requiring ‘unlimited’ screen resolution has resulted in the recent growth of gigapixel displays (e.g. Powerwall) and next generation CAVE systems (e.g. StarCave, DeFanti et al. 2009).

The opportunities offered by interactive and 3D technologies for enhanced cognitive exploration and interrogation of high dimensional data still need to be realized within the domain of visual analytics and digital humanities (Kenderdine, 2010). The three projects described take on these core challenges of visual analytics inside AVIE to provide powerful modalities for an omni-directional exploration of multiple textual datasets, archaeological laser scan data and museum collections responding to the need for embodied interaction; knowledge-based interfaces, collaboration, cognition and perception and, narrative coherence (as identified in Pike et al. 2009).

Within the museum, the rapid growth in participant culture has seen creative production overtake data access as the primary motive for interaction with databases and search engines. The meaning of diverse bodies of data is increasingly expressed through the user's creative exploration and re-application of data, rather than through the simple access to information. Through AVIE, museum users investigate the quality of narrative coherence brought to interactive navigation and re-organization of information.

Databases and projects included in this paper: (1) Western Han Tomb archaeological data; (2) Museum Victoria multimedia rich records (30,000); (3) multilingual datasets including the Tripitaka Koreana in Classical Chinese (the world’s largest single corpus composed of 52 million glyphs on 83,000 printing blocks, carved in Korea in the 13^th century); New Testament in Greek and English and Chinese; Bible in Hebrew and; Qur'an in Arabic.

Even though this work takes place largely “off the web” it seeks to provide new visualization paradigms that scale, cross-platform. In addition, partners in Australia, Hong Kong, USA and Germany, with AVIE style systems can be connected together for collaborative distributed access.

Collaborators: Museum Victoria, City University of Hong Kong, ALiVE, UNSW, UC San Diego, UC Merced UC Berkeley, Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative, ZKM, Jiaotong University, Tufts University

Type:

Paper - in formal session

Info-Seeking

Site:

http://www.cityu.edu.hk/scm/alive/

Authors:

Sarah Kenderdine

Timothy Hart

Computer-Assisted Drafting and Design Programs for Architectural History and Archaeology

jtrant — Wed, 02 May 2007 01:07:08 +0000

Eiteljorg, H. (1991). Computer-Assisted Drafting and Design Programs for Architectural History and Archaeology. (David Bearman, Ed.).Hypermedia & Interactivity in Museums, Proceedings of an International Conference.