Summary:
These two weeks, various dissemination activities took place, including a visit of members from Norsk Bibliotekforening, to which we presented the project, and a presentation at the “Alexandria” workshop in Germany. Moreover, we collaborated with Bachelor students Interaction Design focusing on the SciFi collection and new designs for the Oria systems.
Specific meetings, including:
- Visit from Norsk Bibliotekforening, presenting the Visual Navigation Project (Hugo)
- Presentation is available here.
- Discussing BIO-conference app and options for a new touch screen (Dan Michael, Hugo, Kyrre)
- Chosen touch screen: Philips 43BDL4051T/00 (43 inch), in combination with a tiltable and movable mount (Peerless-AV SmartMount).
- These were delivered the following week (see figure)
- Discussing preparations XIMPEL workshop (Dan Michael, Hugo, Kyrre)
- Overview of IT systems at UBO: update and maybe finalize (Andrea, Ahmed, Hugo)
- Continuing on earlier giga-mapping efforts
- Choosing an online mapping tool
- Meeting INF2260 students
- Presenting their ideas to us, as well as their prototype, co-developed with Kyrre. Their work can be followed via their project blog.
- Project presentations INF2260
- Oria project. Their presentation is available under “midtveispresentasjon” on the following page.
- SciFi project: “Real Fiction”. Their presentation is available under “midtveispresentasjon” on the following page.
- Skype meetings Winoe Bhikharie (in preparation for XIMPEL workshop on 20 November)
Specific activities, including:
- Invited talk at 4th int. Alexandria Workshop (Hugo)
- Hugo presented ways to apply learned lessons in the Visual Navigation Project to large web archives, such as the Internet Archive. The title of his talk was Chaos & Order: Using Visualization as a Means to Explore Large Heritage Collections.