Kategori: Arkeolog, sosialantropologi

Ark4 a digital heritage library was initiated by the NTNU University library in 2014 and is exploring new ways to approach culture and heritage re-using digital content from the Cultural Heritage sector, mainly deriving from Europeana and other libraries to reach a wider audience through knowledge games.

Our collaborator for the applications produced and the workshops organized in 2015 is

Digital Curation Unit Athena RC with Dimitris Gavrilis, Agiati Benardou, Eliza Papaki, Eleni Afiotzi and Nephelie Chatzidiakou.

Ark4 plans to organize educational activities in the immediate academic community, among colleagues and university students in the investigation of approaching cultural heritage and archives and its protection from different angles. It also aims in spreading knowledge on heritage sites and monuments or heritage archives through educational workshops and gaming activities to create engagement for the general public as well.

ARK4 investigates on

• digital technology and games as a tool for community action of heritage protection and knowledge sharing.
• the idea of community-based participatory approaches to heritage and archive dissemination work.
• the role, end-users play as active participants in the design process.
• The outcomes of user-interaction, in thecontext of a targeted activity, using mobile technology.

Knowledge gained from a museum visit activity where the students were divided in teams and were given questions and a small  introduction to the goals of the activity. They were encouraged to walk around collect the answers and photos and they worked for two hours. The products delivered were a ppt presentation, pictures and films.

Our conclusions in short after the workshops were completed are the following:

• digital technology and games has been an attractive tool for High School students for knowledge sharing.
• the idea of teamwork and participatory design seemed engaging.
• the students participated actively in seeking information and in designing the dissemination product.
• users were interacting socially, reflecting and seeking information, in the context of a targeted activity, using mobile technology.

Our games have subjects as archaeology, history, botany, literature, war history, archives and are produced in three languages.

1. English :Lost Cultures and Children litarture( with content from Europeana and Gunnerus library special collections)
2. Norwegian: Womens History and Rødøy quiz
3. Greek: Delos og Mykonos

Cipa announces a summer school 
30th August – 4th September 2016, Valencia, Spain

AIMS of the Summer School

3D Recording, Documentation and Management of Cultural Heritage

A timely benchmark publication when so much heritage globally is under threat An integrated treatment of cultural heritage recording, modelling and conservation Perfect tool for understanding and planning conservation Cultural Heritage

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Ark4 a digital heritage library, started in 2014 by NTNU University library and is exploring new ways to approach culture and heritage and attempts to re-use digital content from the Cultural Heritage sector, mainly deriving from Europeana and other libraries and museums to reach a wider audience through knowledge games.  We also aim in creating engagement and educational activities in the immediate academic community, among colleagues and university students in the investigation of approaching the past from different angles.

Our main partner in this phase is Athena the Digital Curation unit and we collaborate with three archaeologists and IT experts.

We use visual material from old archives and create games with questions about endangered sites, Palmyra, Niniveh and Nimrud with the purpose to spread knowledge about past cultures that are now destroyed or even threatened.

Archaeologists have been playing a role in informing on the atrocities committed as a result of war and ethnic or nationalistic turmoil but there is always a demand for an approach that is not only theoretical but it contains actions and proactive protection. Such initiatives have been collaborating with Unesco and Icomos that are commited to protect sites in danger, either that is done through documentation  or projects as CYARK500 or New Palmyra or through social media as Archaeology in Syria Facebook group , where professionals archaeologists from USA Europe and middle East participate in letting information about the destructions happening as they happen.

I believe that we as academics, have an obligation to keep these memories alive and not let them slide in oblivion. It is not a secret anymore that antiquities that are stolen from these countries are sold to the western countries and the money goes to finance weapons for the ones actually stealing and destroying those countries and its heritage. In Syria when the war started, there were armed groups that would destroy sites to lift up mosaics from the floors and sell them.

ARK4 is not providing a solution to all that but intends to create engagement and spread knowledge about those sites through educational workshops and gaming tools.

More on Ark4 here.

Vi er ikke blitt helt gale her borte på Gunnerus, men vi har vårrengjøring på biblioteket og rydder i arkeologisamlinga og en del litteratur (som vi har dobbelt av og som av ulike grunner ikke egner seg til utlån, f.eks. skribling og dårlig innbinding) skal permiteres og gis bort til fremadstormende og entusiastiske arkeologistudenter! En forutsetning er selvfølgelig at du lover å ta godt vare på pensjonistene som har tjent mange generasjoner studenter trofast. Vi oppfordrer også til at du gjerne gir dem videre til andre studenter når du ikke trenger den lenger.

Bøkene står på hylle ved skranken i 1 etg. på Gunnerusbiblioteket

Beste hilsen fra Bibliotekgjengen ved Gunnerus!

ARK4 is now in its second phase with external financing from the National library of Oslo.

Our collaborators in ARK4 from Athena Digital Curation Unit  Digital Curation Unit, «Athena» Research Centre decided to celebrate ‪#‎WorldBookDay by creating a quiz on Children’s Books using free content from Europeana.eu!

Take the quiz here 

ARK4 wants to create a virtual dialogue between the public and institutions involved in the project through gaming activities. In its new phase, the project aims in re-using digital content from the Cultural Heritage sector, mainly deriving from Europeana, to reach a wider audience through knowledge testing games. ARK4 is a project-collaboration among four institutions in Trondheim: NTNU University Library; NTNU Department of Computer and Information Science (IDI); Regional State Archives in Trondheim and Norwegian Deaf Museum and an international partner: Athena Digital Unit RC in Athens, Greece. During this collaboration, workshops were held focusing on introducing new technologies in teaching.

The technical responsibility for the quiz had Dimitris Gavrilis and Eleni Afiontzi (Athena RC) while the curation of the content was undertaken by Agiatis Benardou and Eliza Papaki (Athena RC).

More on ARK4: http://mubil.no/ark-4/