Gate Ways: Immersive Technologies for Heritage Archives

从创造性研究能力基金的支持是寻求建立大门的方式：沉浸式技术的遗产档案：GW：CAXA（从康沃尔语字，以保护，以保持）。GW：ITHA寻求建立一个开放中心，以身临其境的方式访问档案，并汇集这些资源在支持捕获和分享远西南地区的物质和非物质文化遗产方面的丰富潜力。特定地点/景观剧场的性质使其大部分成果都依赖于文件。在视觉和声音领域使用体积和捕获技术将显著改变这项工作的记录，存档和访问方式。利用法尔茅斯大学现有的Kneehigh和WildWorks档案作为案例研究，GW：WARMA将建立在沉浸式商业基础设施的基础上，以捕捉各种实物收藏，传统的文本文物，以及短暂的文档，过程驱动的实践，以改善访问和制定战略，从这些新的数字资产中获得新的收入流，以支持康沃尔郡的创意产业。GW：CNOA将建立一个协议和工作流程，用于从现有的XR格式档案中捕获材料，并与表演公司合作，使用尖端的体积捕获技术记录大规模的现场实践。其结果将是创建一个数字资产图书馆，使档案能够以目前不可能的方式访问和共享。在西南部，特别是康沃尔，缺乏一个成熟的区域巡回剧院网络，加上大量的景观和选址剧院公司，意味着有大量的表演材料与特定的地点结合在一起，但对传统的记录模式有抵抗力。法尔茅斯大学在提供与文化环境中的数字技术相关的大型和小型外部资助项目方面有着广泛的记录。这包括欧洲结构基金、沿海社区和英国研究理事会资助的倡议。例如，法尔茅斯在第七框架方案，V-Connect项目中进行了合作。这使得能够在地理上分散的表演者之间开发高质量的实时视频和音频通信。该项目使视频会议能够转移到会议室之外，允许团体和个人实时访问一个（或多个）地点。2014年9月，V-Connect在世界上首次为奇迹剧院公司的莎士比亚戏剧《暴风雨》的制作提供支持，演员分布在两个地理位置分散的地方，一起提供单一的表演，本地和远程观众能够在不同的物理位置体验沉浸式制作。凭借成熟的员工专业知识和已经交付的项目V-connect，wAVE，Immersive Business，增强型电报员，故事期货，在线管弦乐队，爱丁堡边缘数字展示，支持更新和升级设施，这些设施前景数字，基于云的平台，用于生成和传播创意和文化研究，将使我们能够扩大我们的活动，扩大我们的影响力，并显着提高观众访问。该项目提供了可扩展的好处，不仅将进一步支持该地区的创意和文化经济，而且还将支持那些在英国各地非传统场所工作的表演公司，支持更新和升级设施，这些设施将数字化，基于云的平台用于产生和传播创意和文化研究，这将使我们能够扩大我们的活动，扩大我们的影响力，并显着提高观众访问。该项目提供了可扩展的好处，不仅将进一步支持该地区的创意和文化经济，而且还将支持那些在英国各地非传统场所工作的表演公司。

Support from the Creative Research Capability fund is sought to establish Gate Ways: Immersive Technologies for Heritage Archives: GW:ITHA (from the Cornish word to guard, to keep). GW:ITHA seeks to establish an open centre for immersive approaches to archives and draw together the rich potential these resources have in supporting the capturing and sharing both the material and intangible cultural heritage of the far South West. The nature of site-specific/ landscape theatre has rendered much of its outcomes as resitant to documentation. The use of volumetric and capturing technologies in both the visual and sonic domains will shift significantly how this work is documented, archived, and accessed. Using the existing Kneehigh and WildWorks archives housed within Falmouth University as case-studies, GW:ITHA will build on Immersive Business infrastructure to capture the various collections of material objects, traditional textual artefacts, and the documentation of ephemeral, process-driven practice, to improve access and develop strategies for new income streams from these new digital assets to support the creative industries in Cornwall. GW:ITHA will establish a protocol and workflow for capturing material from existing archives in XR formats, and work with performance companies to document large-scale, live practice using cutting edge volumetric capture techniques. The result will be the creation of a digital asset library, allowing the archive to be accessed and shared in ways not currently possible. The lack of an established network of regional touring theatres in the far South West in general, and Cornwall in particular, coupled with the significant number of landscape and sited theatre companies, means there is a wealth of performance material wedded to specific locations, yet resistant to traditional modes of documentation. Falmouth University has an extensive track record of delivering both large and small scale externally funded projects relating to digital technologies in cultural settings. This includes European Structural Funds, Coastal Communities and UK Research Council funded initiatives. For example, Falmouth collaborated in the Seventh Framework Programme, V-Connect project. This enabled the development of high-quality real-time video and audio communication between geographically dispersed performers. The project enabled videoconferencing to be moved outside the boardroom, allowing one (or more) locations to be accessed by groups and individuals in real-time. In September 2014, in a world-first, V-Connect supported a production of Shakespeare's The Tempest, by Miracle Theatre Company, with actors situated in two geographically dispersed locations, delivering a single performance together, with local and remote audiences being able to experience an immersive production in different physical locations.With established staff expertise and already delivered projects V-connect, wAVE , Immersive Business, Augmented Telegrapher, Story Futures, Online Orchestra, Edinburgh Fringe Digital Showcase, support to renew and upgrade facilities which foreground digital, cloud-based platforms for the generation and dissemination of creative and cultural research would allow us to expand our activities, extend our reach, and significantly improve audience access. The project offers scalable benefits that would further support not only the region's creative and cultural economy, but those performance companies making work in non-traditional venues around the UK, support to renew and upgrade facilities which foreground digital, cloud-based platforms for the generation and dissemination of creative and cultural research would allow us to expand our activities, extend our reach, and significantly improve audience access. The project offers scalable benefits that would further support not only the region's creative and cultural economy, but those performance companies making work in non-traditional venues around the UK.