Third time lucky then...
Easy Modelling of Cultural Spaces
Proposal
ICT ? European FP7 Cooperation Work: Information and Communication
Technologies/
Challenge 4: Digital Libraries and Content
The idea of a virtual European library to make Europe's cultural and
scientific resources accessible for all has already been realised. The
Europeana.eu portal, which went online in November 2008, already
provides links to more than 6 million digital items: images, texts,
audio and video content from Europe´s world famous museums, galleries,
archives, libraries and audio-visual collections. This continuously
growing digital database also has the potential to become a highly
interesting resource for museum professionals working on exhibition
design or projects of museum education/interpretation. A Precondition
of this is to develop an additional application based on Europeana.eu
which should facilitate users who lack special knowledge on software
engineering or computer science to integrate the selected objects in a
pre-designed virtual art space. In this new environment the cultural
items would function as easily modifiable building elements in order
to create new complex structures of art. For example, an exhibition
designer would be able to select paintings, sculptures or audio-visual
contents on Europeana.eu and transfer them in a self designed virtual
gallery in which the artworks could be freely placed and removed in
different variations in order to create an installation. The outcome
of this new application supported by display functions in two, three
(or more) dimensions would be used as an ideal preparation for complex
exhibitions with a very short installation time and as an archiving
solution for recent art shows. It can also create interactive virtual
art spaces.
The research on this subject should begin with the establishment of a
theoretical framework for integration, easy handling and modification
of digital items in a new virtual space. LIDO, the already existing
metadata standard of Europeana.eu could serve as the fundamental
resource for the compatibility of very different kinds of cultural
contents.
Second, a practical tool should be developed which allows museum
professionals to test the new application in different virtual spaces
based on the architecture of real or selfdesigned museums.
Currently, the following Hungarian institutions are involved in this
project: Budapest University of Technolgy and Economics, Public
Administrations Center of Information Technology (BME IK), Grafisoft
Ltd., Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest and The Museum of Literature
Pet?fi. We are looking for additional partners, museums as well as
technical developers from the European Union.
If you are interested, please contact:
Krisztián Fonyódi, M.A.
Digital Archive Manager
Museum of Fine Arts Budapest
H-1146 Budapest, Dózsa György út 41.
Email: [log in to unmask]
Tel: +36 1 469 72 41
Fax: +36 1 469 71 72
Cell: +36 30 2286616
Quoting Ridge Mia <[log in to unmask]>:
> Hi Bridget,
>
> JISCMail doesn't allow attachments - whether that's a blessing or a
> curse is a matter of opinion.
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> Could you copy and paste the text into an email?
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> Cheers, Mia
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>> Hello
>> Looks like I did fail to attach the attachment properly.
>> Here it is again.
>> Bridget
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