TY - GEN
T1 - Virtual manuscripts for an enhanced museum and web experience 'Living Manuscripts'
AU - Cauchard, Jessica R.
AU - Ainsworth, Peter F.
AU - Romano, Daniela M.
AU - Banks, Bob
PY - 2006/1/1
Y1 - 2006/1/1
N2 - Due to preservation and conservation issues, manuscripts are normally kept in research libraries far from public gaze. On rare occasions, visitors can see these priceless objects, typically separated from them by a sealed case, with only a fixed double page spread visible from a manuscript that may contain hundreds of folios. This restricts the amount of knowledge offered by these books. This paper proposes the creation of virtual manuscripts as exhibits in their own right in a museum context, and as part of a web-based virtual learning environment offering visitors the unique opportunity of engaging with the manuscripts, providing further possibilities for accessing the heritage and cultural information contained in them. A database supplying information about and from the manuscripts, held in a virtual environment, creates the illusion of their "real" presence and materiality. 'Living Manuscripts' aims to stimulate and encourage engagement with vulnerable materials via an innovative virtual experience.
AB - Due to preservation and conservation issues, manuscripts are normally kept in research libraries far from public gaze. On rare occasions, visitors can see these priceless objects, typically separated from them by a sealed case, with only a fixed double page spread visible from a manuscript that may contain hundreds of folios. This restricts the amount of knowledge offered by these books. This paper proposes the creation of virtual manuscripts as exhibits in their own right in a museum context, and as part of a web-based virtual learning environment offering visitors the unique opportunity of engaging with the manuscripts, providing further possibilities for accessing the heritage and cultural information contained in them. A database supplying information about and from the manuscripts, held in a virtual environment, creates the illusion of their "real" presence and materiality. 'Living Manuscripts' aims to stimulate and encourage engagement with vulnerable materials via an innovative virtual experience.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=33751436663&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/11890881_46
DO - 10.1007/11890881_46
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:33751436663
SN - 3540463046
SN - 9783540463047
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 418
EP - 427
BT - Interactive Technologies and Sociotechnical Systems - 12th International Conference, VSMM 2006, Proceedings
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - 12th International Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia, VSMM 2006
Y2 - 18 October 2006 through 20 October 2006
ER -
