Museums and libraries were established as repositories of memory, initially as rarity-cabinets and archives by rich collectors in the 16th century. These resulted in the museum and library archives as public institutions of the 18th century with a mission to educate their visitors (Dilevko 2004). During the 19th century the past was defined as the product of “intellectual enactment and study” (Benett, 2004, p.2). Today, the use of Virtual Reality (VR) applications in Archaeology and Museology and the ever-increasing development of interactive software and new technological platforms have provided museum and library archives and historical collections with a new space of contact to their users. In other words, Museums, libraries and institutions of memory have been challenged to find new forms of dialogue with their users and have turned to VR technology to entertain and inform their audience.
Scholarly knowledge about the past through archives, repositories and collections.
1. Scholarly knowledge about the
past through archives,
repositories and collections.
•How was it established?
•How does it reach the public?
•How will it be curated in the future?
•Alexandra Angeletaki NTNU
University library.
3. The Gunnerus library
in Kalvskinnet!
A memory institution of regional
national and international value!
4. The expert, the message and the audience!
Material things present themselves in relation to human beings
( Hooper-Greenhill 1992)
The communication between an object and a visitor ..starts with a visit and
continues in the mind and imagination of the visitor. ( Miles1994)
What motivates the public into seeking knowledge? Museum studies,
archaeology, history, humanities.
5. OLD BOOKS AS OBJECTS OF THE PAST
PHYSICAL OBJECTS
HERITAGE OBJECTS
RESULT OF CRAFTMANSHIP
SOURCES OF KNOWLEDGE
DIGITAL OBJECTS
...........
6. The library as a cultural agent
Content analysis and accessibility:
From the oldest to the newest: Parchments,
Fragments, Illuminations, Typography,
Digitilization.
Cataloguing, systems, corpuses,seminars, cources
solutions to support research and spread
knowledge.
.
32. Wikipedia (cit.):
“Lara, A Tale is a
rhymed, tragic
narrative poem by
Lord Byron; first
published in 1814.
The first work
composed after
Byron abandoned the
idea of giving up
writing and buying
back his copyrights, it
is regarded by critics
as a continuation of
the autobiographical
work begun in The
Corsair.[1] Unlike The
Corsair, it was
published
anonymously, in
conjunction with
Samuel Rogers'
Jacqueline”
37. Digital literacy
•Digital libraries provide an
environment in which its users
can access and interact directly
with a variety of online
resources.
•Users interact with libraries and
information in new ways
•Facilitates the communication
between users and publishers
•Open Access possibilities
created
•New opportunities for scholarly
communication
Source: Exploring the Digital Library by Kay Johnson, 2005
38. How is it done?
•Others sources by the library
•Proquest
•Gale 18th century books
•Fagets blogg
42. Digital
Humanities
A new research area established. An interdisciplinary
field of study located at the intersection of
humanities scholarship and computational
technologies.
Its key purpose is to investigate how digital
methodologoies can be used to enhance and
transform research in the Arts and Social Sciences.
Its also employs traditional humanistic skills to
analyse modern digital artefacts and scrutinize
contemporary digital culture.
How do we curate those?
43. Transmedia approach of
documentation/preservation/interpretation of objects of
the past.
Expand the public dissemination of knowledge
Being part of a DH community gives you the strong
sense of the benefits of crossing the traditional academic
boundaries! (Deegan 2010)
52. Augmented book
Immersive exploration of a digital copy of the real manuscript placed in a three-dimensional
context
Outside-in immersive exploration
53. Virtual Laboratory
The user plays the role of an apprentice of an ancient alchemy laboratory
immersive exploration
54. The game storyboard
Goal: creation of a specific drug using the instruments available in an alchemy laboratory of XVI century.
Tre drug formula is obtain from the Lonicer’s
Kreuterbuch
55.
56. Can the introduction of virtual
and immersive technologies in
disseminating the contents of a
library-archive collection enrich
the contemporary perception
about libraries?
57. Hammer´s book collection: Adam Lonitzers Kreuterbuch (1569?),
frontispiece
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzPav9ZhU-g
73. Dissemination and future developments
All applications are contributing to promote Gunnerus Library contexts
through public events.
Extend the application to other experiments.