Chapter 3

Innovative Digital Projects

The Library of Congress, Digital Collections & and the Revealing of America exhibit uses Flash. In Programs this particular Lewis & Clark exhibit, the user is given a www.loc.gov/library/libarch-digital.html virtual tour of the Lewis & Clark exhibit gallery currently on display at the Library of Congress. The Library of Congress, Global Gateway: There are multiple resources available for teachers, World Culture & Resources educators, researchers, publishers, librarians, families, http://international.loc.gov/intldl/intldlhome.html and disabled persons to access, use, and teach with these The American Memory Project digitized resources. This is a wonderful Web site/portal http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/help/view.html for experimentation, exploration, and learning. The American Memory Project Listing DigiCULT http://memory.loc.gov/ammem www.digicult.info/pages Library of Congress Digital Exhibits DigiCULT Newsletters www.loc.gov/exhibits www.digicult.info/pages/newsletter.php Rivers, Edens, Empires: Lewis & Clark and the DigiCULT Technology Watch Reports Revealing of America www.digicult.info/pages/techwatch.php www.loc.gov/exhibits/lewisandclark/virtualtour

July – August 2005 – August July DigiCULT Thematic Issues The Library of Congress, Digital Collections & www.digicult.info/pages/themiss.php Programs Web site features many of the digital collections and exhibits of The Library of Congress. Many of them are DigiCULT’s mission is to benefi t the cultural basic digitization projects, but there are a few that meet heritage sector, particularly in Europe, by assessing and the criteria set for this book. monitoring emerging and existing technologies to help The American Memory Project has a number of optimize the development, preservation, and access to collections that feature audio, maps, and video (the main Europe’s cultural and scientifi c heritage, especially within page provides information about downloading free plug- the emerging digital cultural economy. As such, this group www.techsource.ala.org www.techsource.ala.org ins in order to use the site’s interactive features). A listing has issued a number of groundbreaking and informative of American Memory projects is also available. Many reports that list many of the innovative digital projects in of the audio and video segments are housed under the the humanities currently underway in Europe. Performing Arts, Music category. Thus far, this group has produced nine newsletters Many of the digitized maps use the DjVu software (between 2002 through 2004); three Technology Watch program, which allows users to zoom in and access Reports, focused on presenting six technologies in depth greater detail on the maps. I Hear America Singing and their current and future impacts on cultural heritage is another digital project that incorporates multimedia projects; and seven Thematic Issues, which detail news,

Library Technology ReportsLibrary Technology elements. The Rivers, Edens, Empires: Lewis & Clark software products, current projects, and digital initiatives

24 Library Technology Reports www.techsource.ala.org July – August 2005 25 site incorporates cina (ancient life simulation spaces, life cina (ancient project, originally funded by a 1997 ces”). Users must register in order to log in, register in order ces”). Users must VRoma: A Virtual Community for Teaching and Teaching A Virtual for VRoma: Community Humanities Exhibits Interactive The (a virtualUsers become a VRoman character, or avatar), The takes theThe opening Flash movie to the user directly category, and within theUnder World Medieval site trulyThis Web is a discovery zone, created to be The VRoma: A Virtual Community for Teaching Community for Teaching The VRoma: A Virtual and Learning Classics www.vroma.org Learning Classics grant, is a “virtual with online Technology NEH Teaching as a multi-user known networked generally environment,” which is built on a cultural and (MOO), environment spatial Faculty metaphor Rome. and students of ancient can meet and interact time, in real collaborate, hold classes, and access various materials learning. for on Rome (modeled and can enter two spaces: Rome different 150 CE), or Offi around and faculty “offi after which they these can explore virtual spaces, virtually interact and collaborate with other in the currently avatars system, all the culture while learning Roman about ancient of teaching archive also a large and civilization. There’s digitalmaterials including images. available, other CERHAS projects, with dealing most the Argive Greece. ancient Heraion in Exhibits Interactive Humanities www.humanities-interactive.org/a_base_UD.html Flash software throughout, which serves to amaze the user through the navigational project’s effects. and visual the for Humanities, Council by the Produced it’s Texas a seen for one of the I have front-ends innovative most site. humanities Web interactive access to seven where page, front categories the exhibit makes Web Clicking on any is available. ing the headings with shuffl alive come movement, page so theand categories around stimulated user is visually theto continue instance, the to explore content. For category Cultures Ancient contains exhibits, seven all of which contain interactive properties. Each digital exhibit contains digitized on the and essays photos topic as well as some type of interactive the game to challenge user the contentregarding of the exhibit. The Art of Chivalry example, the exhibit, for interactive and if questions Knight game asks of theMedieval user, armora correct a knight’s is given, is constructed answer (piece by piece, per right aftergradually answer), which he mounts an armored horse. used by teachers and educators to inform and instruct in the K–12 students on topics usually not covered traditional school curriculum. (1543, to showcase to showcase Web portal, Web EarthWorks: VirtualEarthWorks: by Andreas Vesalius On the Fabric of the Human Body On the Fabric De Humani Corporis Fabrica Using virtualcomputer reconstruction and digital The When entering the site, the user is presented with a It is the woodcuts this from (images) that book are section commentaryThe Essays provides on some of the About sectionFinally, details of the many Exploration Ancient Ohio Valley of the of thevarious photo and video recreations Ohio ancient product This site of a CD-ROM is actually a preview Valley. through CERHAS, but the purchase for user can available access some very sophisticated and interesting virtual reconstruction also links to some are There videos here. EarthWorks: Virtual Exploration of the Ancient Virtual EarthWorks: Ohio Valley http://earthworks.uc.edu restoration, the Center the for Electronic Reconstruction Sitesof Historical and Archaeological (CERHAS), in cooperation with the University of Cincinnati and various other entities, has constructed De Humani Corporis Fabrica De Humani Corporis http://vesalius.northwestern.edu of interest to the of interest cultural heritageIt’s community. this for impossible report detail to the all of interactive projectsand innovative detailed in the publications of this c is why this which annotationgroup, general with specifi links is provided. available in both is a digitized,available versions, Flash and no Flash interactive presentation of one book, the Renaissance anatomical atlas 1555) by Andreas Vesalius. 1555) by Andreas frames-type structure, the where left-hand frame column navigational by clicking and contentprovides available on the topics in thethe bar at top of the (Contents, page and About). The book Index, Bibliography, Essays, Images, has been translated into English, and this translation is what to theis presented the only user (in otherwoodcuts/ words, illustrations the from been digitized actual document have not the to the Latin available user, and are text). the attraction. real The user can view the by name images is chosen, the location.or body an image user can Once utilize buttons four that zooming in, zooming for allow out, access to information Flash, and about Macromedia to the directly going partfor in the text that discusses that particular image. the and instructions language uses in his book, Vesalius a glossarywhile the Index provides of Latin medical terms they and where appear in the book. A substantial in PDF format. Bibliography is available accomplishing the for presentation processes project’s useful and instructiveand also includes Help and Site Information section. 26 Library Technology Reports www.techsource.ala.org July – August 2005 City, and community leadership,among others. andcommunity City, Users canexplore Motor topicssuchasmusic, life inthe fipublic forum for that blackAmericans rst aired in1968. Colored series People’s television the Time,atelevised PublicTelevision Detroit chroniclesound clipsonthe of features exhibitthat videoand amultimedia Journal, Terkel: America. with Conversations Classroom,Teaching andStuds inthe andLearning TheSpoken Word: community), interactive Transforming (anonline, MichiganWriters Network the Library, Digital TheAfrican andPolitics Out Loud, History Library, Vincent EarliestProject, Voices: Voice from the AGallery tours. reality andvirtual multimedia generated are featured, Flash- century alongwith twentieth from the audiofiVoices where anumber ofdigitized collection, les Historical Iwould considerinnovative. Oneisthe that site content. repositories ofhumanities goal standardized, istocreate interoperable center’s the certifi of Part program computing. cate inhumanities II grantin1998,andsince, agraduate ithascreated received Libraries The Center a$3.5millionNSFDigital Online Center andSocialSciences for Letters, Humane Arts, www.matrix.msu.edu/~abj American BlackJournal www.studsterkel.org Studs Terkel: ConversationswithAmerica www.historicalvoices.org/spokenword The SpokenWord www.michigan-writers.org The MichiganWritersNetwork www.aodl.org The AfricanDigitalLibrary www.hpol.org andPoliticsOutLoud History www.historicalvoices.org/earliest_voices Library Earliest Voices: fromtheVincent Voice AGallery www.oyez.org/oyez/frontpage OYEZ Project www.historicalvoices.org/fl The FlintSit-DownStrike www.matrix.msu.edu and SocialSciencesOnline MATRIX: TheCenterforHumaneArts,Letters, Other featured collections include Black American featuredOther collections OYEZ include the TheFlintSit-Down Strike, Projects Web Matrix There onthe are anumber ofprojects University, the Based atMichiganState is a humanities and technology research andtechnology isahumanities center. int MATRIX: The mazes andfi gures, museums, stonecircles. andmodern andpalaces,ancientsymbols, ancient crosses, temples stone holy Pictish wells andsprings, brochs, hill-forts, and cavesrows, forts andquarries, rock art/carvings, stones,barrows, stone circles tombsandstanding and ancient trackways, ancient villages, longandround rock outcrops, circles,of megaliths, henges andtimber map provides software, aninteractive MapServ the with no plug-insrequired. Map,constructed TheMegalith versions; andno-frames frames comesinboth The site 12,000pictures. andthere’s accesstomore than plotted, have 10,000prehistoricMore monuments than been globeunderconstruction. areas ofthe other Europe, with Itcovers prehistoric sites. allof andother of megalithic world’s fi the contains map multicountry rst interactive www.megalithic.co.uk Megalithic PortalandMegalithMap detailed history of the ancient worship of Mithras. The ancient worship ofMithras. ofthe history detailed http://museums.ncl.ac.uk/archive/mithras/intro.htm Virtual Mithraeum may have looked heyday. like inits Roman city tore-create important ruins, how this British building Wroxeter tourofthe Roman avirtual City, research with and essays. andrich interesting, visually Web isfuntoexplore,the site well constructed, Overall, tradition. KingArthur related tothe tradition tobeincluded physical inany site appropriate oral causeway. Itwould have beenanimpregnable and,indeed, and awoodenby fens andwas accessibleonlyviaboats area was surrounded backto500B.C.,whenthe dating history, inits times atvarious hill-fort ofthis creations re- virtual Itfeatures constructed perspective. interesting Avalon. Arthur’s historical perhaps, even the Llys kingdomofPengwerm) Pengwern and, (capitolofthe couldhave group membersthink beenCynddylan’s that fort tourof virtual aQuickTime-based aWeb hasconstructed maintains site, CAS%20Main%20Page.htm www.virtuallyhistorical.com/downloads/1794_ “The Berth”IronAgeHillFortVirtual Tour standards. diverse users,andmetadata archives, federated mechanismsfor materials, delivery for archive multimedia adigital structure digitization, sound standards indigital is developing bestpractices MATRIX Inaddition, andstudents. for teachers materials and curricula butalsoeducational projects, all ofthese The The Studies also iscurrently forThe Centre Arthurian offers avery research,Based onhistorical portal the group that Studies,anamateur forThe Centre Arthurian MATRIX provides in content notonly multimedia Megalithic Portal and Megalith Map andMegalith Portal Megalithic Virtual Mithraeum Virtual “The Berth” Iron Hill Age Berth” “The offers a fairly compact yet offers afairly compact , anancient hill- Web site site Web Library Technology Reports www.techsource.ala.org July – August 2005 27

Library Hi Library contains a number human intervention. human formats: basic users one for without ® David Rumsey Historical Map offers users interactive offers online v. 21 no. 7 (September/October 2004): 30- v. , a personal collection and been that grown has Ancient Routes The Rumsey collection been at the has always Portal Geospatial Resource The By harvesting the content of the international major theUsers can also access or hour’s collage, previous than More freely 10,000 cartographic are images Ancient Routes www.ancientroute.com activities in which they the trade can explore ancient routes thearound Mediterranean, the covering time periods thefrom beginning of writing 400 A.D. to around There with a standard Web browser, and a second Insight Java a second Insight Java and browser, with Web a standard users. and advanced researchers Client for of cutting forefront viewing and scanning technology, edge and software to create used theand a listing of hardware digital a detailed and collection analysis For is available. report on the content and functionality of this collection, see the article Initiative “Open Archives Data Providers. Part and Humanities” III. Social Sciences in News Tech Geospatial Resource Portal www.gisdevelopment.net click on a word, a picture is pulled up thatword, click on a links to various instance, when thatnews headlines use the For keyword. theI accessed site1 p.m. EST on April at the 8, 2005, popes, and pope, funeral, Paul, were: keywords ve top fi president. thenews sources, site presents the news in a very visual and interactive and runs way in the on going snapshot of what’s an hourly It provides a year. 365 days 24 hours a day, world, they back in time can go at least six months to November the2004, or access the 2004. Using for year collage cutting-edge technology style and a unique of visual presentation, a stimulating 10 x 10 provides and unbiased news! to access daily way David Rumsey Historical Map Collection www.davidrumsey.com to view at theavailable Collection of map digitizationat the Maps forefront years. many for in twocan be viewed Insight 39, or access a PDF of the article at www.public.iastate. edu/~gerrymck/OAI-DP-III.pdf. of application papers about 3D technologies involving geospatial applications, A particularly in archaeology. two called Osmosis has developed company CD-ROMs virtualthat 3D reconstructions feature and of Olympia Ayutthaya (see www.osmosis.com.au information; more for click on the buttons Visualize, Animate, and Broadcast in to view sample contentorder these from CDs. Navigation buttons located are at the bottom of the rectangle).

ne the ne ne Virtual Mithraeum Web site contains Web all online exhibit, constructed by the Sharpless “Sing Ye in the Spirit:” in the Music & Quakerism “Sing Ye Engines of Our Ingenuity Engines 10 x 10: 100 Words and Pictures That Defi 10 x 10: 100 Words project is probably one of my favorite innovative digital innovative favorite one of my project is probably The user utilizes the the down 100 mouse to move The The The exhibit is divided into the areas: following This type digital of innovative project showcases The Time Time projects. Every this hour on the site hour, collects the 100 and pictures thatwords matter on a global scale, and it most presents them on the of portal. as a collage front page on thekeywords right-hand of the side and if they collage, 10 x 10: 100 Words and Pictures That Defi and Pictures That 10 x 10: 100 Words the Time www.tenbyten.org/10x10.html www.haverford.edu/library/quakermusic in Harmony Gallery and the College, Magill Library at Haverford interactively presents the complex relationship between Along and Quakerism. and music withhistorical research audio short various documents essays, and RealPlayer interspersedlinks are throughout the exhibit. to Keep 1650-1830; Obliged Music & the Quakers, Early the Rules of the Society of Friends; Musical Portrayals Scull David Recollecting Singer: of Quakers; a Quaker Singing? from Music & Can I Keep Bispham; and How links to audio portions also are There by Quakers. Texts of the of the opening exhibit on April 12, 2004. Various contemporary composers and their links to Quakerism Seeger. Pete and Ned Rorem including featured, are the quality that can accomplish in the a small college humanities on the Web. the content, as the as well audio transmissions, of the John “Enginespublic radio show Ingenuity” of Our by Dr. the of Lienhard University This radio program of Houston. is comprised of insightful and informative humanities- opinions, thoughts, research, related and comments on historical cultural events and Lienhard, and directions. Dr. Emeritus of Mechanical M.D., Anderson Professor Engineering and History numerous at UH, has received the and the for content site of his radio show, awards educational use. materialfeatures classroom for in the Spirit:” Music & Quakerism in “Sing Ye Harmony is a nicely constructedis a nicely virtual reality reconstruction c topic. on one specifi focusing Engines of Our Ingenuity www.uh.edu/engines portal a virtual includes reconstruction interactive and tour of thetemple inside of a to Mithras. The user in and out, clickcan zoom on hotspots the to see text associated with that object, can use the and to cursor the around virtualmove temple. The 28 Library Technology Reports www.techsource.ala.org July – August 2005 resources, www.digitalhistory.uh.edu Digital History symphony.development of the The QuickTour provides accountofthe historical abrief MidiArchiveClassical quiz andadiscussionboard andsurvey. Alinktothe sound);andaninteractive andhow they instruments the Midimusic fiwith ofeach pictures les anddigitized are (along arranged andlocated instruments where the symphony looksand orchestra how atypical variations); ternary, (rondo, sonata, basicstructures the along with movements, various symphony andthe typical of the form works; acolorguidetothe composers andtheir whichisclickabletovarious timeline, constructed by many composers.There isafull-colorandnicely ofsymphonicmovements segments tovarious listen today bymany composers. composed andisstill century, nineteenth Period ofthe fulfi ultimate found its Mozart, Romantic llment inthe Haydn ClassicalPeriod and with inthe fame andfortune early Thesymphony century. hadits form eighteenth symphony,known asthe whichfi mid- rst appeared inthe form more wishingtolearn aboutthe and/or amateur music fora wonderful professional exploratorium the www.classicalarchives.com Classical MidiArchive http://library.thinkquest.org/22673 The Symphony:AnInteractiveGuide oftopicsaswell. exploration offersfuture. thematic Thesite King’s Highway—will the as isavailable beaddedinthe with more interactivity—such Itisonly hopedthat portal. in the colored andjpegsofmapsare gifs included other various route. trade selected tothe city ofthat importance ofthe explanation toan willbetaken andthen inquestion, city click onthe usercan map,where the link. Thispullsupaninteractive HotMap scroll down then tothe left, colored balltothe King’s Highway,map ofthe usermust clickonthe the King’s Highway.the interactive Inany case,toget tothe as asinteractive routes trade and planstomake allofthe ofthis, architect isthe site, ofthe bottom at the indicated of mid-May 2005). features offered as routes interactive that only oneofthe Lower Road, andAmberRoad. (King’s Highway was the King’s Highway, Silk Road, Way Royal Sea, ofthe Road, currently routes available are for sixtrade exploration: Certainly full of content and extensive educational educational andextensive full ofcontent Certainly isfullofMidimusic fiThe site usercan les, sothe The Symphony: Guide AnInteractive routes, trade To userinvisualizingthese assist the RodneyI would person imagine R. 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Library Technology Reports www.techsource.ala.org July – August 2005 29 (TMP) is a quality Theban Mapping Project Theban The immediately of the clicked, Kings atlas, once The Valley a Description each tomb, there’s tabFor that provides of atlas is an aerial image The Theban Necropolis Caxton’s the showcases Chaucer British Library’s two Theban Mapping Project Theban Mapping www.thebanmappingproject.com in a digital consider “innovative” example of what I would humanities project. Using 3D imagery and computer models, this projectvideo and state-of-the- uses Flash art interactive technology to map and provide content database archaeological emanating a comprehensive from on Thebes, the Egyptian of capitol and home ancient the of the Kings, the Valley of numerous burial grounds Egyptian Pharaohs and their families. Begun in 1978, of access to two atlases: The Valley major TMP provides the Kings and the Theban Necropolis. that the a Flash movie launches drops user from an overall to the down city ancient Egypt, view of Ancient of Thebes. begin, thean interactive user is shown To map of the known of thetombs in the Kings. Each tomb on the Valley map is learn about, and to examine, explore, to theavailable user, the the By moving manipulate mouse over in various ways. outlines of the the tombs on map, the user can click and interactive to an go on that movie tomb/archaeological dig (withwritten a transcript). with Users can also play a 3D tomb overview (which uses a revolutionary new type softwareof image called Quantapoint, using lasers to map within features distances, slopes, and geographical precise the actual tomb), in which the user can manipulate to “tour” thetomb itself virtually to examine the and stop various frescoes and images. informationrecent on that dig, tomb and archaeological that tomb, articles and media regarding access to images and related links, and other interesting information like measurements, objects etc. they where reside, now found, The Maps & Plans tab lets the user choose the maps and plans from the they to see how various in order tombs, are objects during thelaid out, where found digs, and were enables the tabeven user to click on a measure so one interactivelycan measure the distance one point to from another within the tomb. the the where buried, entire Egyptian area Pharaohs are historical information. The software this for (and the other Full exhibits) in the any allows Treasures compare user to quartos,two copies at the and/or plays, time. same editions of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, and Gutenberg Bible does the same with the British Library’s two copies of the printed. ever earliest book The sliding timeline at theeach project top of and all of the projects’ content plentiful dataprovide on the varioustime the periods (for the late Renaissance Bible and Chaucer, medieval/early time period). on the An exhibit British Library’s collection Books is coming soon. Festival of Renaissance , constructed by The British Library, ’s goal is to establish goal a digital’s library music Variations2: Indiana University Digital Music Indiana University Variations2: Treasures in Full Treasures Shakespeare in Quarto access to all of the provides Shakespeare theA timeline site, across top of the moves Web The Variations2 builds on its successful predecessor, builds on itsVariations2 predecessor, successful The Documents the link gives to the user access many Treasures in Full Treasures www.bl.uk/treasures/treasuresinfull.html is comprised of three interactive (with another resources is theon the in which the ability way) feature main to c British and contrastcompare textual content of specifi Library collections. text just digitization, beyond It goes to one organization’s attempt to digitize and provide the and comparisontools for of all the study research content that one organization has in certain areas. British Library’s copies of the twenty-one by William plays printed in quartos,Shakespeare all ninety-three copies. historical links and and biographical The project provides information on this time period as well. nd out c dates to fi so that the user can click on specifi Variations2: Indiana University Digital Music University Digital Indiana Variations2: Library Project www.dml.indiana.edu Library Project test-bed system, incorporating various types of and genres activities and development research for in networkmusic, services, metadata systems and and component- standards, based application hoped this architectures. It’s system will be the digital foundation for on a variety library research usability instance, than (for for music just of topics, more intellectualstudies, property rights, and instruction). students attemptrst to provide the which was Variations, fi institutionsin academic music with streaming audio and purposesvideo content and listening and research for theto also address technological and property rights with digitizing involved access to challenges and providing copyrighted materials. music With help from the National and the Foundation Science National for Endowment the dissemination Humanities, provides of Variations2 objectivesits through its and deliverables research Web site. demonstrations, and publicationspapers, PowerPoint access to this project. The News link provides regarding releases. of version as to an archive news as well current of the much link accesses content Areas The Research in site;of the links to developments and research Web copyright, metadata, instruction, music networking, The here. system and usability design, available are theSoftware software, Variations2 link features user’s shots,guide, user screen and cataloging shots. screen The staff veryVariations2 are active in the information music retrieval (MIR) and digital and events, library conferences and theirand staff share research members regularly and outcomes with goals development their colleagues. 30 Library Technology Reports www.techsource.ala.org July – August 2005 Renaissance There Massesandmovements. are some to approximately 83MP3 music fi les for anumber of www.princeton.edu/~rwegman/mass.htm Renaissance Masses,1440–1520 bookcovers. the that areas ineachofthe students togivefor totheir teachers are available Onlinetests underconstruction. link are still TheGuidedTours linkandMaps and Timelinescharts. Reigns, Dynasties, arelink, there somewell constructed provides accesstoanonymous works. History Under the Anonymous, manuscripts acollage illuminated ofvarious PoemsChronicles and Debate available for access.For groups suchas text various a large the bookcase with Text Groups, Topics, andHistory. The topicsare: Anonymous, Authors, General,Literature, collage images andclicking. mouse over inthe oneofthe orbymoving the viaaregular button be accessed,either ofanimage-clickable page resources wheretype the can available. linksgo Whenclicked, directly tosome these bookare andtopicsofthe contents ofthe arrangements ReadMe/readme.html.) user.phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de/~holteir/companion/ resource naturecooperative ofthis canbe found at http:// of DüsseldorfinGermany. onthe (More information for Work University Cooperative at the (BSCW)server anyoneIt’s byaBasicSupport whowishestouseit. hosted resourceonline bookprovided to interactive asafree http://user.phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de/~holteir/companion A CompaniontoMiddleEnglishLiterature process. available, butonewould have agreat dealoffuninthe days couldtake content toreallythat examineallofthe projects Thisisoneofthose ofmaterial. presentation the understand whatisavailableand play totruly with onereally report, hastoexploreWeb inthis described sites “innovative” alltruly Aswith project. onthe information andaWhat’s Newfeature site, of the provides current Search, Resources,Sites, top andAboutTMPare atthe ClickabletopicssuchasArticles, site. available onthis andresources content considerable amountofhistorical The Valley Kingsatlas. ofthe over TheValley Kings,which,ofcourse,launches ofthe one atlasisthe ofthis to view. Theonly clickableportion feature quickly photographdiffi aerial makes that the cult whatisbeinglookedindicates at,andthere’s a zoom areas various mouseover Moving the the construction. ofinterest now covered points sandormodern with Valleyincluding Kingsbutalsoother notonly the ofthe Renaissance Masses,1440–1520 For Text Groups, image for shows the instance, linkstovarious button, Navigation Under the A CompaniontoMiddleEnglishLiterature there’s a interactivity, toallofthe In addition provides access isan for touring Pompeii without actually goingfor Pompeii actually there. touring without isanexcellentresource this for useinaclassroom setting sites. photographsofthese are just digitized city. Roman PanoramicImagesthe and Images ofPompeii of andhistory life,Pompeiian times, anddiscussthe ruins professors, move the around inwhichthey movies the with ofPompeiian are QuickTime Urbanism,there three Aspects Under trenches commentary. inPompeii, againwith video. professors shotthe bythe that commentary with along baths, ofthe portion show that movies popupthat Pompeiimap ofthe Forum where QuickTime Baths, usertoaclickable etc. TheForum the linktakes Baths surviving/uncovered buildings,walkways, monuments, ofthe part mapandviewimages ofthat ofthe parts usercanclick onvarious wherearchaeological the site, Pompeii isaclickablemapofthe there Images section, andnarrative. providevideo, andthey commentary oneswhoshotthe are project the ofthis are part that professors nicebecausethe ofVirginia. Itisvery University movies prepared Pompeii for the Forum atthe Project http://hitchcock.itc.virginia.edu/Pompeii Viewing Pompeii one North (Franklin County, Pennsylvania), (Franklin County, oneSouth one North CivilWar, American the during communities of two are consideredwhich still “innovative” even today. and hasgone numerous through revisions anditerations, was browser project launchedearly Internet Mosaic,this (IATH) ofVirginia. 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This Web University’s of Wesleyan the instrument university’s world features collection, collections and most diverse which is one of the largest in the The instruments world. been photographed have as QTVR under the movies, available Exhibitsand are heading, so the the user can move to examine the cursor instruments All of views and in full color. in 360-degree les as the instruments as digitized available fi sounds are well. membranophones, by type aerophones, (chordophones, (North region and idiophones), by geographic America, Southern material Asia, etc.), by bamboo, stone, (wood, etc.), and by alphabetical indices (sub-divided into instruments, and ensembles). genres, can see an alphabetical of all the list instruments. When choosing an instrument, at the the boxes user gets four top of the the concerning page instrument: audio, images, not everyvideo, and QVTR. instrument Obviously, will content in everyhave of them format, but many do. teachers and students music world interested in studying withand playing interactive content, sound, and images of instruments the from around world. project Music in the of Northern Culture , written by Mark Slobin from fi eldwork and eldwork , written Slobin from fi by Mark Music in the AfghanMusic in the North, 1967–1972 What is wonderful about thisWhat is wonderful site video is it includes is an interactiveThere ethnolinguistic the map under The When entering the site, the is directed user to three in the Battle Years, instance, under The War For theAt bottom of the map, an interactive timeline theThe user can also click and place into map publication materials that he gathered while in Afghanistan during the indicated time as period. The book is available link. 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Library Technology Reports www.techsource.ala.org July – August 2005 33 offers a sequence of screens of screens a sequence offers is interactive right the from Once in theOnce site, is presented on the an image screen, Acropolis VirtualAcropolis Tour Texas Beyond History: The Virtual History: Beyond The Museum of Texas Categories at the About TBH, top of the are: page theUnder Meet the Kids category, users can play This is an excellent example of collaboration, (reminiscent of an art(reminiscent gallery the move wall; user must the left slide from the to right lower once site is accessed) of maps of a number that are use QTVR There technology. settingthe Acropolis in Athens, which each have Greece, that clickable circles take the venues user to 360-degree of that location. theand by moving cursor in various directions while on panorama of thethe a 360-degree modern-day image, Acropolis Virtual Tour Acropolis Virtual www.dkv.columbia.edu/vmc/learning than 200 digitized 16mm and 8mm fi lm reels available as available lm reels than digitized 200 16mm and 8mm fi streaming almost 400 digitized media, and history oral interviews. The project director indicates than more items40,000 new to the added are site every month, and has plenty funded well obviously so it’s material of to digitize to those and offer interested in this subject that Page assists Resource also a Teacher’s There’s area. teachers with and educators incorporating this content into the curriculum. Museum of Beyond History: The Virtual Texas Cultural History Texas’s www.texasbeyondhistory.net Cultural History Texas’s thestart. teaching toward and learning of Texas Geared history in K–12 education, site the presents an Web interactive map of the appears on the state front of Texas the the Moving cursor over page. places indicated on the map brings up a short illustrated summary and teaser about the content site of the (this exhibit/historical Web contentis a collaborative various project from where and projects museums this to is linked main site).Texas The user then clicks to connect to that exhibit. There’s Resources. and Special Exhibits, Kids, Teachers, plenty of interactive waiting just content to be found. here and Times of the Life instance, in the Caddo Tejas: For In thisdigital exhibit, a Caddo Map Tool. exhibit, there’s the with user can work a map of the Caddo Homeland ora, interposing of Texas, various fl contentarea like the over map, with and archaeology clickable environment, links to various digitized photos and information. Critters There’s game, which uses Flash technology. interactive Rockshelter to an Ancient also a Time Travel learning object Dirt, that thehas Dr. uses Flash (and guide!). armadillo as your archaeologist and education togethertechnology, to provide working digital learning objects and multimedia in the humanities via the Internet.

Decameron Web site and Web features a huge amount of a huge features contains interactive an computer is a site devoted to the The Internet Archive Internet The Web Web Naropa University Audio Archive Project Archive Audio University Naropa Supported and maintained by Texas Tech University, University, Supported Tech and maintained by Texas Decameron The purpose of The Ricardian Explorer Virtual Archive Vietnam Virtual Vietnam Archive Vietnam Virtual www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive the multimedia more content including: on the Vietnam War nding than two-million of material, pages 1,000-plus fi than 1,000 digitized almost aids, more 71,000 images, more 500 audio recordings, maps of southeast Asia, over Decameron www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/dweb its staff is to provide researchers, historians, and scholars its researchers, staffto provide is with permanent access to historical collections that in digitalexist format. Begun in 1996, this project has taken “snapshots” of the Internet at various times in its content and “lost” history, so itsexistence, progression, can still be accessed and studied in the Access future. such as audio, moving to various media is also archived, and software. is plentyimages, There of content for here exploration and discovery. by Boccaccio in the fourteenth century. While it is a typical humanities three audio clips of site, it does have under the music medieval Arts category. The Internet Archive www.archive.org Naropa University Audio Archive Project Naropa University www.naropa.edu/audioarchive features more than more 1,000 audio-tape selectionsfeatures 30 from from the classes, and workshops Jack of readings, years by Allen Poetics, School of Disembodied founded Kerouac audio are in 1974. There and Anne Waldman Ginsberg siteclips throughout the of various twentieth-century Web authors as conversations from their as well reading works uential twentieth-century infl and discussions by many authors. 300 hours of these Approximately audio clips are (www.archive.org). at The Internetavailable Archives Ricardian Explorer Ricardian www.wesleyan.edu/econ/ricardian game that simulates the functioningsimple model of of a international trade. The ultimate of the goal game is to conventional Using of goods. basket consume a balanced guided by consumer needs are economic models, decisions According producer-consumers. are Players and desires. to the instructions, Setup and Play users only need a 1.4_01 plug-in computer Java and the available freely and process thean exercise to play it’s game. (Because the in discipline, it is included involving social sciences this report.) 34 Library Technology Reports www.techsource.ala.org July – August 2005 link at the bottom of the page takes the user to the usertothe page the takes ofthe bottom link atthe Web like sites Visionary today. clickingonthe Infact, images of whatitlooks hill asitonce was anddigitized ofthe there’s anice3Dreconstruction of presentation, and,basically, content screens three little hasvery site Web. Whilethe onthe presentation inits toinnovative technology itself www.virtualworld3d.com/ancientsites/ancientsites.htm Virtual Worlds 3DAncient Sites acropolis.htm www.visionarywebsites.com/virtualworld/ancientsites/ Virtual World 3D–The Acropolis appears. panoramicpicture as the 3Dboxesget the room andsquares displayed ofavirtual isremarkable, andyou usedtobuildthis eventechnology iconchanged). andclickwhenthe some pictures wereI read andjust happenedtomove there they through well; Ionly discovered very are because notindicated them hotspots box (unfortunately, text these inthe information when clicked viewsorprovide you on,willtake toother was usedfor orwhatitcontained. building were ofwhatthe andshow cutaway cross sections once asthey are reconstructed often ruins the pictures, and go tomore panoramicpictures. isavailable ruins/buildings Acropolis toclick the andits of reconstruction Web aninteractive original site, to the Toggling archaeological site. ofthe back andhistory ruins, location, anaudiosoundguidediscussesthe pictures, wonderful panoramic usermoves allofthese through the screen. brought As uponaseparate chosenlocation, the provides ahuge whichtoview panoramicscreen with identifi ed. where locations heorshecanclickonanylocation, ofthe Acropolis mapofthe interactive toatiny taken is then dial-uporbroadband and option the must clickoneither Greece. Acropolis Theuser inAthens, ofthe ruins content features Web that separate 360-degreetotally site/project www.acropolis360.com Acropolis 360 like beingthere! coolonlineproject—almost Thisavery ruins. Parthenon viewsofthe andinterior exterior views, andmapswith non-processional with processional paths and Panathenaic Acropolis Acropolis amapofthe the inmodern-day Athens, becomesavailable. 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Web sameexhibit/re-creation popsupthe projects two these parent Web site. the through usermustand Stonehenge); accessthese the Acropolis projects, virtual two other (like the of them Web availabledoesn’t seemtobeaseparate site for either and GizaPlateau re-creations, virtual www.virtualworld3d.com/ancientsites/ancientsites.htm follows).these (more oneachof GizaPlateau Great Pyramid,andthe are Stonehenge, others the the constructed; ancient sites 3D AncientSites company’s Web page, where you cango to This virtual reconstruction ofStonehenge, reconstruction This virtual The Finally, QuickTimemovies andfl allofthe y-throughs iconsfor Secondly, oneofthe clickingoneither Unfortunately, particular for two somereason, the Arthuriana Pedagogy Arthuriana have anumber ofproblems. First, there . TheAcropolis isoneoffour virtual Virtual WorldVirtual 3D—The Great Pyramid , has much more interactive , hasmuch more interactive Web to isdedicated site Virtual WorldsVirtual Virtual Virtual Library Technology Reports www.techsource.ala.org July – August 2005 35 Institute for Advanced Institute for (IATH) is not a leader (IATH) Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization is one of those interactive projects and innovative With the exception project of the Urbis Romae Aquae While I would never say the say never While I would The In addition, buttons there are near the bottom of Unfortunately, a new window appears when items window a new are Unfortunately, in the of humanities forwarding computing, but given the parameters set forth the of this Preface report, it’s digitalnd innovative Web projects in group’s cult to fi diffi nd the projects because cult to fi site. be diffi It also may sitethe itself Web or promote its does not actively market multimedia projects. I spent a lot of time trying just listed previously, to locate projects.and view all of the I found The easiest way IATH to do this to the on to go menu was Subject down drop throughthe and go right page, side of the Web front the various humanities access to all of disciplines to get projects. using this strategy, Even however, search IATH’s ned as defi “innovation,” at least much failed to discover thisfor report. www.iath.virginia.edu Humanities in the Technology Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project http://lincoln.lib.niu.edu Project lls a niche in the on humanities. It focuses that fi really and him alone, and theAbraham Lincoln presentation of the material is both user-friendly and easy to follow. Primary materials source can be accessed via a toolbar that This toolbar appears at the page. top of every Web divides the content into format (text, video, sound, image, interactive and all), so the user can decide what resource, he or she wants to see in relation to multimedia. that page the let the Web front user access the content as interpretative materials, Lincoln’s such as Search hydrological and hydraulic systems in Rome from 753 systems in Rome and hydraulic hydrological the technicalcs regarding Specifi B.C. to the day. present cations and technology used to create this project specifi under Project Description. maps are The provided are the at bottomprovided of the The user clicks page. front on a certain time period in the history as a of Rome This bringscity. up two choices of viewing: a JPEG map that links to content has clickable map and a VRML 3D various typesthat for allows and of zooming, panning, rotating. on in the interactive be more clicked JPEG map; it would if the content either the popped up over map, perhaps with digital to view the etc. In order VRML maps, images, the a freeto plug-in. 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Web site serves Web up is one of the interactive more the from America 1930s in the is another great resource for teachers for looking is another resource great Developed within IATH at the withinDeveloped University IATH of Virginia, Focusing on one decade within on theFocusing twentieth presen- chronological In relation to a year-by-year site.This is an exceptionally rich multimedia Web Uncle Tom’s Cabin & American Cabin A Multi- Culture: Tom’s Uncle “The Criyng and the Soun”: The Chaucer MetaPage “The Chaucer MetaPage CriyngThe Soun”: and the Aquae Urbis Romae: The Waters of the City of Rome of the Waters The Urbis Romae: Aquae Web site presents interactiveWeb cartographic maps of the www.iath.virginia.edu/waters the Aquae Urbis Romae: The Waters of the City of Aquae Urbis Romae: The Waters Rome century, the and other images, lm, audio, multimedia content to fi in 1930s America. 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This particularsite on texts focuses Web of by mainly recorded and read again Geoffrey Chaucer, academic professors. 36 Library Technology Reports www.techsource.ala.org July – August 2005 author thinks abouthisorherown work, thinks the author www.meettheauthor.com Meet theAuthor classroom. inthe contents their Web aidsfor and usingthe site(s) lesson plansandother resource hasateacher’s with and eachproject center materials; multimedia provides sameaccesstovarious the front Web sameand topofthe page isthe toolbar atthe the content; Lincoln Theyallhave project. interactive Abraham asthis allfollow sameformat program the that digitization Libraries’ IllinoisUniversity box) byNorthern in andURLs listed titles (project projects number ofother Fortunately, Project. 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Web front nd this. the 3D reconstruction, I could not fi but Walls The City York: 38 Library Technology Reports www.techsource.ala.org July – August 2005 www.lejourduseigneur.com/puyenvelay/00.htm Le Puy-en-Velay (Auvergne,France) page. ofthe bottom Madeleine’ atthe of La France html#; www.lejourduseigneur.com/vezelay/00.htm www.mcah.columbia.edu/mcah2/html/mcah_projects. 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Chrono- Electronic, Interactive! Tibetan and Himalayan DigitalTibetan and Himalayan There’s a Flash-based chronology of a Flash-based chronology There’s The Crystal The Palace has multimedia as lots as well content galore of exhibit, which is related. Absalom, Absalom! A VRML model and a three-minute animation of the site on one particular focused This is a neat Web The fabulous The fabulous theUnder a Community are example, category, for The Asia interactive country map shows names, and to teach the way This is a unique book, and help is a fascinating meant to assist multimedia resource Chronology Absalom, Absalom! http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/railton/absalom The Crystal Palace www.iath.virginia.edu/london/model Monuments and Dust www.iath.virginia.edu/london interior of the Museum of London and the “Monuments and Dust” digital project. The animation on the impresses viewer the actual large as presentshow as well the building was character of the structure extensive and space. There’s documentation site the on the about how available Web VRML model and animation done and the were technology utilized.was architectural structure. See also the Dust Archive. More are planned in the planned in content and are future, is More Archive. the to according information continually, being added available. Library interactivity and information.categories The major in links) image as the also provided (which are top toolbar Education, Community, Collections, and are: Reference, in English, Chinese, and site is available The Web Tools. Tibetan. of interactivenumber maps. Information they on how are constructed, in them, is available what and other information (see http://iris.lib.virginia.edu/tibet/collections/cultgeo/ maps.html). on, anotherwhen Tibet is clicked interactive map pops up be inserted) can (in which the features major geographic a virtualand offers tour of the of Lhasa. The town by ways: information of different in a number is presented collection, by themes, and by format. logy teachers and students William Faulkner’s book studying Absalom, Absalom! the chapter-by-chapter events in the book, a Flash-based of thechronology full text, and audio/sound fi Faulkner’s visit to the English Club Universityof Virginia’s 1957 and two 1958. in March English classes in May students to visualize the of the chronology plot while they theread book. , see provides QVTR and Java maps QVTR and Java provides Web site features digital site images features Web Digital Himalaya Gothic Cathedral Technique: Build an Arch Gothic Technique: Cathedral The major digitalve collections fi there are Currently In Salisbury Cathedral www.digitalhimalaya.com Library and Himalayan Digital Tibetan http://iris.lib.virginia.edu/tibet http://iris.lib.virginia.edu/tibet/collections/cultgeo/maps.html and multimedia to anthropological related information It is associated thefrom region. with Himalayan the Tibetan Digital and Himalayan Library discussed next. Williamson Collection,available: Film Furer-Haimendorf Collection, and Thangmi Naga Videodisc, Thak Archive, www.screengold.co.uk/scrbayeaux.htm Dormition Cathedral of the Moscow, http://vrm.vrway.com/issue09/VIRTUAL_CATHEDRAL_OF_ THE_DORMITION_BY_ALEXEY_TRUSOV_.html Digital Himalaya A Thousand Years of Church Architecture A Thousand Years www.learn.columbia.edu/shockwave/1k_years Other General Screensaver Bayeux Tapestry www.bbc.co.uk/history/society_culture/architecture/launch_ ani_build_arch.shtml www.vryork.com/minster/tour/source/minster03.html Abbey Westminster www.westminster-abbey.org/tour an Arch Build Gothic Cathedral Technique: of Salisbury as well as 360-degree panoramic pictures. For of Salisbury panoramic pictures. For as 360-degree as well United cities Kingdom more and sites by this company with similar access, see the right-hand side of the lower Web page. 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is an interactive exhibit that helps to demystify. Under thehelps to demystify. Under The Last Expression: Art Last Expression: and The Web site features virtual panoramic site 360-degree features Web is one of a number of interesting is one of a number projects the from Songs in the Key of E Key Songs in the The Beat Goes On: How Sounds Are Recorded and Recorded Are Beat Goes On: How Sounds The Impacted Technology II: How War War World Cultivating Communities: Digital Dance in the Age art by prisoners duringFeaturing produced their lm,” and other audio clips. This is very done, short well is another IEEE Virtual Museum exhibit. It discusses technology II. how impacted War the outcome of World atomic rst interactiveThere’s the content how showing fi video clips. and a few radar worked, how bomb worked, Songs in the Key of E www.ieee-virtual-museum.org/exhibit/exhibit. php?id=159271&lid=1 examines the history of electronic sounds and musical The Beat Goes On: How Sounds Are Recorded The Beat Goes On: How Sounds Are and Played www.ieee-virtual-museum.org/exhibit/exhibit. php?id=159246&lid=1 Played IEEE Virtual on the Museum. This exhibit focuses history some very interesting sound. It features of recording interactive Thomas content, a Flash demo of how including of Enrico an audio recording phonograph worked, Edison’s Caruso singing, 1930s video clip of “sound on an early fi interactiveyet exhibit on the history of recording. Impacted Technology II: How War War World www.ieee-virtual-museum.org/exhibit/exhibit. php?id=159269&lid=1 Ford) goes off to fi nd his father (Sean Connery) and the off to fi goes Ford) Grail. Petra is a mysterious locationHoly site the Web Lost City of Stone Petra: Interactives three category, panoramic 360- there are the photographs for user to visit Petra and itsdegree monuments virtually. Cultivating Communities: Age Dance in the Digital http://arts.internet2.edu/fall2002-perfevent.html is one of the projects innovative many that has come out of the Internet 2 Initiative. 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