StoryBank: Sharing stories across digital divides

该项目的目的是使发展中国家的村庄社区能够轻松地创建和分享视听信息。这些信息可能非常实用；包括健康或农业建议，当地产品的广告，或学校课程的练习。或者它可以是更个人化的；包含对即将到来的活动的邀请，报道当地新闻，或就特定问题寻求帮助。将使用摄像电话和数字图书馆软件，支持以视听短篇故事的形式捕捉和分享这方面的信息。我们用故事这个词来指代用静止或运动的图像说明的口语报告。通过关注这类视听信息，我们希望给那些不能读写或使用互联网记录和获取文本信息的人更强的发言权和作用。通过建立一个储存库，我们将允许不同的人重复存储和访问这些信息，这些人可能临时共享相同的摄像手机、电视或其他基于屏幕的设备。通过将这个存储库连接到互联网，我们还将允许当地环境以外的人看到作者是如何生活的。这可能有助于远程工程师和设计师了解来自不同文化的人的需求，并为他们创造更合适的产品和解决方案。通过这种方式，我们的目标是在当地重新定义互联网内容，使其更多地以电视为中心，而不是以PC为中心，并在当地和全球范围内测试这一点。该项目有三个主要的研究问题：1.什么样的故事和信息对当地和专业用户有用？2.我们如何以可访问和引人注目的方式呈现、组织和传递信息？3.信息将如何物理创建和呈现？我们开发和测试图书馆系统的方法将是建立它，主要供印度的一个当地社区使用。这将在项目的早期确定，当地人民和已经在那里工作的开发商组织的参与和参与。第二个用户群体将是英国的新技术工程师和设计师，他们将面临挑战，利用图书馆中的信息为这个社区设计解决方案。

The aim of the project is to allow village communities in the developing world to create and share audiovisual information easily. This information could be very practical; containing health or agricultural advice, advertisements for local products, or exercises for a school lesson. Or it could be more personal; containing invitations to forthcoming events, reporting local news, or requesting help with a particular issue. Cameraphones and digital library software will be used to support the capture and sharing of this information in the form of a short audiovisual story. We use the word story to refer to a spoken language report, illustrated with still or moving images. By focussing on audiovisual information of this kind, we hope to give a stronger voice and role to people who cannot read and write, or use the internet to record and access textual information. By setting up a repository, we will allow such information to be stored and accessed repeatedly by different people who may share the same cameraphone, television or other screen-based device on a temporary basis. By connecting this repository to the internet we will also allow people outside the local context to see how the authors live. This could be useful for distant engineers and designers to understand the needs of people from a different culture, and create more appropriate products and solutions for them. In this way we aim to re-conceptualise internet content at a local level, making it more TV than PC-centric, and to test this out across local and global divides.There are three main research questions for the project:1. What kind of stories and information are useful for local and professional users?2. How can we present, organise and deliver the information in an accessible and compelling way?3. How will the information be physically created and represented?Our approach to developing and testing the library system will be to build it primarily for use by one local community in India. This will be identified early in the project, with the participation and involvement of local people and developer organisations already working there. A secondary user group will be new technology engineers and designers in the UK, who will be challenged to design solutions for this community using information in the library.