multimedia for cultural learning

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““MULTIMEDIAMULTIMEDIA

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CULTURAL CULTURAL

DOCUMENTATION AND DOCUMENTATION AND

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The synergy between thinkers from different seemingly disciplines has helped in giving major turns to civilisation.

- Hisenberg

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Aim of cultural studies

• Understanding of Nature, man and society - and the interrelations.

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A multimedia system is characterised by computer controlled integrated production, manipulation, presentation, storage and communication of independent information which is encoded at least through a continuous and discrete medium.

- American Heritage Dictionary

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Technology Levels

• Human - Tech - World

• Human - ( Tech - World )

• ( Human - Tech ) - World

• (Human - Tech ) - Virtual World - World

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• Look at Computer as a tool to

– Think with

– Learn with

– Design with

• Look at Computer as a medium

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LEARNING STAGESLEARNING STAGES

• Experience• Labelling• Analysis• Synthesis

•Presentation

•Abstraction•Exploration

IT Based Learning :Proposed Design Model

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CONTENTCONTENT = DATA

Primary Secondary

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CONTENTCONTENT = INFORMATION

DATA+

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CONTENTCONTENT =

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CONTENTCONTENT =

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CONTENT CREATIONCONTENT CREATION

= KNOWLEDGE CONVERSION

(FORMALISATION)(REPRESENTATION)

TAC IT/IMPLICITKNOWLEDGE

EXPLICIT

CREATIONEXPLICITMULTIMEDIACONTENT

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MULTIMEDIA CONTENT CREATIONMULTIMEDIA CONTENT CREATION

ISIS

TIME TAKINGTIME TAKING

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MULTIMEDIA CONTENTMULTIMEDIA CONTENT

CONTENTCOMPREHENSIVENESS

MIX MEDIAINTERACTIVITY

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CONTENT COMPREHENSIVENESS

CONTENTSTRUCTURE

CONTENT INTEGRATIONAUTHENTICITY

RICHNESS

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INTERACTIVITY

USEREMPOWERMENT

USER EASE

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MIX MEDIA

MEDIAINTEGRATION

AESTHETICS

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MULTIMEDIA CONTENT QUALITYMULTIMEDIA CONTENT QUALITY

WCR Quality of Content Richness

Quality of Content Authenticity

Quality of Content Structure

Quality of Content Integration

Quality of Media Integration

Quality of Aesthetics

Quality of User Empowerment

Quality of User Ease

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WCI

WMI

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Content Structuring through Ontological Inquiry

• Understanding the world in categories

• Multiple Ontologies may exist

• Ontologies are leveled

• Different things become thinkable in different ontologies

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Categories by AristotleCategories by Aristotle

• Substance• Quantity• Quality• Place• Date• Posture• State• Action• Passivity

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Theories of categories• Atomistic

– Facts are not existentially dependent of each other

– Parts can be understood independently of each other

• Holistic– Facts are existentially dependent of each other

– Parts can not be understood independently of each other

– Truth is Totality : Hegel

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Contemporary Ontological problems

• New categories are evolving– e.g. Tendency, Intentionality and so on

• Creation of New categorical Systems

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KNOWLEDGE ENCODINGKNOWLEDGE ENCODING

COGNITIVE MAP

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KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATIONKNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION

• Efficiency :

• Efficiency :

• EFFICIENCY :

ISSUES

Creation

Learning

Internalisation

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KNOWLEDGE ENCODING PROCESSKNOWLEDGE ENCODING PROCESS

Cluster

Dimensionalise

Order Relate

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COGNITIVE MAPCOGNITIVE MAP

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Some Examples

(Work done for and at IGNCA during 1995-2002)

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CULTURAL HERITAGE DIGITAL LIBRARY

A Possibility

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• Less than 1% of documented information has been digitised

- IBM, 1997 report

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CDROM Capacity

• More than 2 lakh pages of text

• 15,000 broadcast quality still images

• 20 hrs of bradcast quality Audio

• 75 minutes of bradcast quality Video

• 1 or 2 Museum Archive Quality still images of manuscripts

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Cultural Artefact Digitisation : Goals

• Dissemination• Preservation of the copy• Research• Re-purposing

Not to replace preservation of the original

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CULTURAL HERITAGE DIGITAL LIBRARY

Performing Art & Folklore

Digital Library

PaintingDigitalLibrary

Built Heritage &Sculptures

Digital Library

ManuscriptDigitalLibrary

Cognitive Maps

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Dissemination :Goals for Manuscript Digitisation

• Screen viewing of the text only• Screen viewing of the text with the

look and feel of the original-----------------------------------------------• Paper printing of the text only• Paper printing of the text with the

look and feel of the original

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Theory of Evolution and Cosmology• Organisms with an intellectual psyche

• organisms with perceptual psyche• organisms with sensory psyche

• pre psychic organisms• active organisms

• passive organisms• bodies

• molecules• atoms

• atomic nuclei• Elementary particles

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Manuscript’s Visual Images

Original Manuscripts WEB

PRINT

CD-ROM

DIGITAL MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY

Survey DirectoriesPublished Catalogues

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Sculptures,Artifact’s Images:2d & 3d

WEB

PRINT (2D/3D)

CD-ROM

DIGITAL SCULPTURE AND ARTEFACT LIBRARY

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Monument’s Images- Maps

2d & 3d

WEB

PRINT (2D/3D)

CD-ROM

BUILT HERITAGE DIGITAL LIBRARY

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Folklore, PF’sAudio, Video,Still images

WEB

PRINT (2D/3D)

CD-ROM

FOLKLORE AND PERFORMING ARTS DIGITAL LIBRARY

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CULTURAL HERITAGE DIGITAL LIBRARY

Performing Art & Folklore

Digital Library

PaintingDigitalLibrary

Built Heritage &Sculptures

Digital Library

ManuscriptDigitalLibrary

Cognitive Maps

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DIGITAL INFORMATIONDIGITAL INFORMATION

SURVIVES FOREVERSURVIVES FOREVEROR

5 YEARS

WHICHEVER IS EARLIER

unless taken good care of