VIRTUAL VELLUM: online viewing environment for the Grid and Live Audiences

VIRTUAL VELLUM：面向网格和现场观众的在线观看环境

• 批准号: EP/E005632/1
• 负责人: Peter Ainsworth
• 金额: $ 2.25万
• 依托单位: University of Sheffield
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2006 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FE005632%2F1
• 关键词: VIRTUAL; VELLUM; online; viewing; environment

Arts and Humanities scholars working on international collaborative research projects involving large-scale image collections held on local and/or distributed databases often need to consult one another to explore questions of mutual interest (e.g. aspects of iconography, discrete art-historical features, definition of image content, real-time comparison of similar or related images). The Access and Data Grids afford the ideal framework (and computing power) for rapid and efficient handling of such large-scale collections of high-resolution images, permitting real-time close-up scrutiny of single or juxtaposed (2+) images, with independent zooming control and other functionalities such as hotspotting, highlighting and blogging. Such tools do not yet exist; to develop them poses a considerable but appealing challenge. A robust but customisable environment is needed for desktop working, configured to address the particular needs of Arts & Humanities researchers and compatible with different kinds of platform. Secondly, in all fields involving the image (manuscript studies, art history, iconography, theatre, museums and galleries are just a few that come to mind), scholars presenting papers live at conferences or delivering online seminars that incorporate reference to the image (typically for side-by-side comparison) are largely dependent on PowerPoint. Good as it is, it does not afford the ideal tool for such presentations, and once again what is missing is the active involvement of scholars in the design process. A more flexible, robust viewing environment is urgently needed, compatible with Windows XP, Mac and Linux platforms, to allow scholars to present papers with confidence in a manner which allows them to manipulate the image files quickly, efficiently and flexibly. Such an environment might have the additional benefit of encouraging scholars to use otherwise dormant datasets.

从事国际合作研究项目的艺术和人文学者，涉及在本地和/或分布式数据库上进行的大规模图像收集，通常需要相互咨询，以探讨共同感兴趣的问题（例如图像学，离散艺术历史特征，图像内容的定义，类似或相关图像的实时比较）。存取和数据网格为快速有效地处理如此大规模的高分辨率图像集提供了理想的框架（和计算能力），允许对单个或并列（2+）图像进行实时近距离仔细检查，具有独立的缩放控制和其他功能，如热点、突出显示和博客。此类工具尚不存在;开发此类工具是一项艰巨但有吸引力的挑战。桌面工作需要一个强大但可定制的环境，配置为满足艺术和人文研究人员的特殊需求，并与不同类型的平台兼容。其次，在涉及图像的所有领域（手稿研究，艺术史，图像学，戏剧，博物馆和画廊只是我想到的几个），学者们在会议上现场提交论文或提供在线研讨会，其中包含对图像的引用（通常是并排比较）在很大程度上依赖于PowerPoint。尽管它很好，但它并没有为这种演示提供理想的工具，而且再一次缺少的是学者在设计过程中的积极参与。迫切需要一个更灵活、更强大的浏览环境，与Windows XP、Mac和Linux平台兼容，使学者能够以一种快速、有效和灵活地操纵图像文件的方式自信地提交论文。这样的环境可能有额外的好处，鼓励学者使用其他休眠数据集。

项目成果

Collections in Context: The Organization of Knowledge and Community in Europe, ed. Karen Fresco and Anne D Hedeman

上下文中的收藏：欧洲知识和社区的组织，编辑。

• 发表时间: 2011
• 作者: Ainsworth PF

Medieval Historical Discourses. Essays in Honour of Professor Peter S. Noble, ed. Marianne J. Ailes, Anne Lawrence-Mathers, Françoise H.M. Le Saux

中世纪历史话语。

• 发表时间: 2008
• 作者: Ainsworth PF

Digital Attraction: from the real to the virtual in manuscript studies

数字吸引力：手稿研究从真实到虚拟

• 发表时间: 2011
• 期刊: University of Edinburgh Postgraduate Journal of Culture & The Arts, issue on Authenticity
• 作者: Ainsworth PF

e-Science for medievalists: options, challenges, solutions and opportunities

中世纪主义者的电子科学：选择、挑战、解决方案和机遇

• 发表时间: 2009
• 期刊: Digital Humanities Quarterly
• 影响因子: 0.4
• 作者: Ainsworth PF