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Description
We request NSF funds to support a workshop to be held at Oxford University March 13-
15 2006. The purpose of the workshop is to build a vision of the next generation art
history repositories given the experiences of a number of European and American experts
in the Humanities and Computer Science, and to explore the potential for mutually
beneficial collaboration between Europe and the United States. A primary expected
outcome is a common basis for cooperation toward new, groundbreaking digital
collections between and among representatives of leading European cultural heritage
projects in art history and digital library specialists based in the U.S. This exploratory
meeting will thus bring together subject specialists, museum curators, and computer
scientists for what we expect will be mutually beneficial discussions.
Over the next several years, many digital collections created in the late nineties will
require substantial upgrades to take advantage of continuing improvements in both
networks and software. Many institutions are already thinking about the future of their
collections. Especially critical topics include federation - i.e. searches and collaborative
maintenance across distributed collections - and the infrastructure needed for advanced
visualization of high-resolution and three-dimensional multimedia resources in
immersive environments.
We will meet with specialists in art history for whom such advanced visualization will be
increasingly important, but who are currently unprepared for such a future in terms of
both data and technical infrastructure. We expect as a specific outcome of the meeting to
formulate complementary funding proposals for new research and development in these
areas; as a more general outcome, our meeting will contribute to a community-wide
discussion about the future of museum and library digital collections.
Status | Finished |
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Effective start/end date | 3/15/06 → 8/31/06 |
Funding
- National Science Foundation: $25,000.00
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