#GLAMVR16 26.08.2016

AIM:

• #1 1 day workshop: 3D immersive, experiential, 3D technologies, Digital Humanities tools and resources, digital archives & related applications, UNITY & Augmented Reality workshops.
• #2 We present our projects at that workshop and a month later meet to review progress & research outputs.
• #3 A Cultural Hackathon with  Curtin Library and other GLAM partners: programmers and others spend a day creating software prototypes from cultural datasets (prize for best project but the IP will be open source and contestants may be invited into the research projects or related grant applications).
• #4 Equipment for prototypes & showcases for future grants. VR headsets, and AR equipment  to be loaned out from MCCA store to postgraduates and students.

Colleagues

And introducing Beata Dawson, PhD Student

Talks & worshop held at HiVE
inside John Curtin Gallery, Curtin Uni

Prof. Erik Champion, Curtin

Intro to #GLAMVR16 SLIDES here

Image on screen from Dr Jeffrey Jacobson, http://publicVR.org

MCCA Strategic Grant: 3 Themes

1.Digital Heritage: Workflows & issues in preserving, exporting & linking digital collections (especially heritage collections for GLAM.

2.Scholarly Making: Encourage makerspaces & other activities in tandem with academic research.

3.Experiential Media: Develop AR/VR & other new media technology & projects esp. for humanities.

Dr. Elaine A Sullivan, Assistant Professor, Department of History, UCSC, discussed:

Digital Karnak: an experiment in publication and peer review of interactive, three-dimensional content..

Her goals:

• To integrate scholarly textual argumentation with modeled space
• Dynamic interaction within the model in simple and open- access platform
• Integration of multi-media video and color images
• Accessible metadata and paradata (data recording the process of building the model and choices made)
• Availability of individual assets for download & reuse

Conal Tuoghy

Dr Lise Summers, Curtin

"Making collections accessible in an online environment"

• "Are we digitizing the right things, and are presenting them in the right way?" (http://www.slideshare.net/Lises2/beyond-digitisation-sharing-digital-resources-linked-data-and-schrodingers-cat)

• Lesson 1 – GLAM organisations do have cool stuff to use, but we may not present it in a useful way for research…

• Lesson 2 – we need to talk to each other before starting the big projects, about access, about formats and about what resources are needed

• Lesson 3 -  talk to each other!

Dr Karen Miller

Digital scholarship, makerspaces and libraries

..Digital scholarship is a broad term and can mean a number of different things. One definition that captures some of its complexity is “the use of digital evidence and method, digital authoring, digital publishing, digital curation and preservation, and digital use and reuse of scholarship.” (Abby Smith Rumsey, 2011)

https://infoliterati.com/2016/09/16/digital-scholarship-makerspaces-and-libraries/

Prof. Erik Champion, Curtin

Dr. Stuart Bender, Curtin

Simple Biometric Devices for Audience Engagement

1. Interpretation of discursive material (eg., “reported realism”)

2. Observation

3. Surveys

4. Simple biometrics

5. Advanced biometrics

For her presentation,  Pauline evaluated the decision-making of the participants using iSquares set up on 5 large work tables (no chairs) so that participants could sort the iSquares standing around the tables. Here she is examining her PhD student's work on the Markham Project (Beata Dawson)

Michael Wiebrands

Trove and Unity

A dynamic visual archive on a column in a 3D game engine (Unity) Simonides eat your heart out.. #GLAMVR16 @morfaine

Dominic Manley

Augmented Reality & Unity

AIM: Encourage VR uptake amongst humanities academics

Image from an earlier Augmented Reality workshop organised by the Curtin University Library Makerspace

Recall Main Objectives

1. Encourage humanities (DH), connect researchers, tools & skills.
2. Get people together to discuss projects-receive feedback
3. Push forward prototypes and proof-of-concepts
4. Uncover design ideas & datasets for Cultural Makathon in Nov..

1. Book chapter accepted, associated with Dr Michael Oven's WAND grant, VR equipment bought, workshop, seminars & makathon.
2. Talks: 49, workshop: 34; Cultural Makathon: 20 registrations.
   UCSC, AVRN, Landgate, State Library & Museum, CSIRO, Gaia resources, Scitech & CIC involved.
3. Discussing 2 ARC linkages, 2017 event (for orientation or www.web2017). Inspired CAA2017 session (accepted).
4. Dataset resources: TROVE API, Data.wa.gov.au, Curtin library links.

Thanks to everyone!