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«About» |
Up to this day, access to the exhibits to the Athens University Museum was only possible by visiting the Museum premises. Furthermore, the Museum relied on a manual cataloguing system that made management and maintenance of its material difficult; research activities were also hindered due to the limitations of physical access to the exhibits. |
In order to face the challenges of the Information Era and modernize the existing cataloguing systems, the Museum participated in a digitization project for cultural heritage ("Documentation, management and promotion of Greek Culture", Call number 65) .The Greek Information Society (Measure 1.3.) was the managing authority, in collaboration with the Virtual Reality laboratory of the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications. A considerable portion of the exhibits was digitized and an integrated system for the management, presentation and dissemination of the museum material was developed, focused on the following goals:
- Wider dissemination of information and knowledge regarding the exhibits of the Athens University Museum for network users.
- Information exchange with other museums in Greece or abroad, as well as reference to exhibits belonging to other digitized collections.
- Facilitation of searching, through the use of queries referencing the properties of the exhibits, descriptive texts, categorizations, and type of information (text, picture, video, etc.). The existence of links between the exhibits will also ease the navigation between one exhibit and other exhibits related to it.
- Information visualization with emphasis laid on intuitive interactive methods that will offer visitors a more “live” experience. Especially for 3D exhibits representing scientific instruments, visitors will be offered the potential to rotate them in all dimensions or even to ‘disassemble’ them in their constituent components.
- Access to exhibits that cannot be displayed in public, due to lack of space or exhibit nature (exhibits that are fragile, sensitive or requiring special conditions).
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Seven (7) collections were digitized for this project, including documents regarding the founding of the University, Leaflets and speeches, rare books and books authored by the University professors, resolutions, old hand-written pages, black and white photographs and University seals). Exhibits were digitized either to page (2D image) or to 3D object format. |
This project was implemented by the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and completed in twenty-four months; during this period researchers specialized in Philosophy, Law, Medicine, History, Computer Sciences, Commercial Art, Architecture and Interior Design, Museum Pedagogy and English/French translation were employed to produce high-quality and rich documentation about the exhibits. |
Scientific Supervisor: Professor Constantin Chalatsis |
Contact Information: Tel: 210 727 5113, 5241 Fax: 210 727 5214 |
e-mail: halatsis@di.uoa.gr |
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