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VERGILIUS
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A collaborative platform for studying and promoting the heritage of the University Paris
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Produktionsjahr2020

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The lecture was held at the online conference "Teaching Classics in the Digital Age" on 15 June 2020.
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Computeranimation
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Computeranimation
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Transkript: Englisch(automatisch erzeugt)
Good morning, everybody. Sorry for this little problem. So as a classical archaeologist But also responsible for the of the e-center of the department of art history and archaeology at University Paris 1, Pantheon Sorbonne
My work aims at placing in images and digital technologies at the heart of the teaching of art history and archaeology Another task is that of curating the department's collections, that is to eventually study valorize and disseminate the university heritage. It includes, among other collections,
a very interesting series of clay stamp seals from ancient Iran Gilded bronze model of the ancient city of Rome a collection of pottery shirts from the Near East
a large film collection and thousands of slides and photographs as well as the archives of various professors who have made the history of the department of art history and archaeology in Paris 1 In order to combine the new needs linked both to the digital pedagogy and to the digital dissemination of our heritage
Not only to our students, but also to a wider community. I looked for a user friendly digital architecture. The idea was The idea was to focus on content and methodology and not on technology
Very often the choice of a complex digital solution not only makes us a social scientist dependent on the help of IT specialists But it also prevents us to understand the logic and the rules of knowledge production
Conversely, I wanted to place my project in a win-win system While the university acquired data and reach its digital archive The students involved in the project should also develop their skills for the job market
accordingly I choose a very simple and modular open access CMS OMEGA and in November 2016 I launched Virgibious the portal dedicated to the heritage of the department of art history and archaeology of Paris 1
Right from the start of the project two issues arose how to transform the university heritage into a Theoristic and teaching instrument through new technologies and second
Who should be the protagonist of this operation In order to answer these questions, I will present here various case studies Which show that the digital dissemination of heritage in all its forms Is a complex process requiring the definition and the follow-up of a precise work procedure
Moving from the materiality of the objects to their digitization and dissemination the following steps were implemented So, uh, you can see it to stage materiality of the collection and digitization and dissemination of the data
So conservation understanding And contextualizing analyzing and describing for the first stage and for the second stage data structuring and processing to the 3d Of course data entry uploading and storage
With a special attention given to the metadata and line collections in OMEGA and then data visualization visualization with the virtual visual exhibitions The three first steps were necessary because our collections had long been abandoned
forgotten buried under layers of dust and in some case damaged The first task was to sort and to clean the objects of course reconstructing the context in which they were made And evaluating the potential of which one as well as their pedagogical value
This was achieved in collaboration with several department members But most of all by students who were placed at the core of the project Many BA and MA students from our department but also Erasmus plus students
Have gradually become the three protagonists of this project Dedicating many powers of their internship throughout the various steps of the chain of Students immediately realized that university collection were not only an antiquarian object to admire
But also an agent of their out training It is important to emphasize That these students are specializing in archaeology or art history And now has specific IT skills If GIS and databases courses are well established in an archaeology curriculum
The digital town in humanities requires the implementation of other skills within their academic training The active involvement of our students in this project was meant on one side to improve their digital skills
Through their ability to deal with an archaeological artifact an archive Or a collection in term of description analyze interpretation and conservation On the other side to strengthen the digital training of our students who were led to find out solution
to the several technical or documentary issues that encountered in the process I move now from the from theory to practice This is not a place to present in detail all the results of our digital
management Dissemination project I will just present an overview of the project focusing on the main issues and solution one of the most important collection of our department consists Of thousands of slides and photographs for teaching and research
Some are pictures from books or there are original photographs by professors over the whole 20th century in the first case it seems Useless it seemed useless to scan the slides or photos for which we have no copyright ownership
Nevertheless we established a global inventory to in order to identify The subjects and understand the teaching methods and the department before the advent of new technologies By the way, these images can be accessed directly in the original publication
They were taken from or from to the large iconographic online databases made available By for example purses or arachnid two well-known repositories of archaeological iconography the slides of the second type
Are are of course of greater interest They mostly offer unpublished images of archaeological sites that have completely changed today Either because of the progress of excavations or in the case of the near east Due to their destruction by eases
We also own a large series of slides belonging to one of our past scholars Ernest wind He had traveled extensively between the 30s and 70s Of the 20th century and he left an impressive number of photographs and slides
Thanks these pictures it is now possible to travel along the Nile river in the 50s Or to discover a forgotten and inaccessible Syria In order to upload these pictures on our online portal We proceeded to the inventory to the digitization
and the referencing of a large part of our collection during these operations Spatial attention was given to internal metadata a real challenge for our students We choose to open source Softwares x and u and gel setter which allow with a few clicks
To modify the textual and geographic metadata embedded in the image image file These indexing and referencing Operations are now necessary so that our resources don't remain lost in translation in the world wide web
in the long run A precise in the in the index section Will allow to find them in national and international research platforms Such as Isidore in France, which are biased on fairly sophisticated queries of metadata
I move on to the collection of pottery shirts from the near east made out of about 2000 fragments whose creation went back in the 70s This collection includes pottery collected on the surface by professors during their site
tours with the exception of a small set coming from a systematic excavation on an Iranian site during tepe The provenance sites are located for the most part in Mesopotamia, but also in arabia from a chronological point of view Most of the shirts date to the Neolithic and to the bronze age
The main reason of this collection is to establish through the technological study of a fairly wide spectrum of Pottery productions a reference atlas for students and for pottery specialists
We proceeded first to the study of the collection, of course through a systematic inventory of the shirts and the photographic coverage For the technological analysis of each shirt, we elaborated a descriptive course to be filled manually because and relation a relational database
that represents its digital translation for the database We choose the file maker pro proprietary solution Which allowed in few weeks of work to come up with a very user friendly a powerful tool
Even if the interface is still under construction the data entry has already started It allows to disseminate A collection that until last year was hidden in a metal drawer But also to train students in the principles of relational databases
Thanks to file maker server, which is provided free of charge by the human Human human national research infrastructure. The database is accessible online to project managers and trainee students Once completed it will be open to the general public to make it teaching and research tool
To further promote this collection. We developed a 3d photogrammetry models of the more interesting shirts for the data Data elaboration we choose the proprietary software photo scan now metashape
For the first step at least point and dense cloud and the open source software mesh lab for the further modeling The 3d models are available on the sketchup account of the university This is another output of our project if you want by training students the photogrammetry
we initiated the production of 3d models Which are now used in our pottery courses while allowing the dissemination of the data beyond our university once again Training teaching and heritage dissemination are joined together into in into an I win you win logic
In 2016 as I said we launched virginia's A common access portal gathering all the departments iconographic and heritage resources
As I said before the tool This tool is based on omega classic and not omega s Which has long been developed by the roy rosenfeld Center for history and new media that is by the same people who developed the zotero The famous open source bibliography management software
I choose omega as a practical solution because it is because it is free and user friendly No technical skills or special server requirements are necessary It operates at crossroads of the web content management systems
archive management systems and museums management systems In fact it allows user to create or collaborate on a website to display collections or build virtual exhibitions To extend its functionality it offers a whole series of themes and plugins
From my point of view one of the most interesting plugins is netline Released by the university of virginia It is an interactive tool for telling stories using maps timelines and exhibition resources
This plugin like the story maps developed by esri Allows to make accessible to the general public. What was once esoteric? Creating maps with various various kinds of special data To manage the metadata omega used uses the doubling core metadata standard as the
most important french national libraries or the national scientific search engine isidore do It perfectly fits the pedagogical and institutional needs of our department omega manages
user users according to Various access privileges a super user who has all privileges of administration and management administrator Who has the permission to access and modify documents collections and tags and a sample contribute
The contributors that these students who have the right to add and edit the documents they have created I now come to virginia Although the layout is still a work in progress with some technical details that need to be fixed
You can already find a significant part of our collections In the toolbar, you will find several scroll down menus allowing To browse the available contents, which is higher Actually and thematically organized I will let you discover the portal by yourself
And of course feel free to submit comments and devices advices. Sorry What I want to focus on now is the panel on the left This is basically the core of our portal which includes all image libraries that means
digitized images as I said before archives And virtual exhibitions created from the images images libraries we insist On the characterization of the collections often organized in subcategories
Which were including one or more items the item as you know represents the primary entity of the omega structure Except for the archive collection, the older collections are classified by topographical order
Special attention was given to the geolocation of each item that means of each image or archive I'm, sorry as you can see here. We have some problems with the google maps uh, and we will move in the next uh week to a new cartography based on open street map, I I think but
I mean everybody knows the problem with google maps now. So, um and google earth, um The idea was to digitally and virtually reconstruct the original context of objects Which one store in the boxes or shelves are now alienated from their unique location in time and space
Another important feature of our portal is the wide chronological and cultural span of its content It therefore allows through a simple search bar to get aggregation which cuts across
space and time Joining together materials from a wide variety of location Chronologies and collections as well Yes, you can here you can see So a simple search that uh put together, uh, several materials from
Different chronologies of different chronologies and locations in virginia's the metadata can be filled in Using free text, but in most cases we implemented a list of values or codes from a controlled vocabulary as you can imagine
Referencing is a fairly detailed operation and in each case we decided to add specific metadata in addition to those of the doubling core You can see the additional metadata This concerns above all at the archives
Here you can see the archives of bovumil suski A czech scholar who introduced european bronze minor and iron age archaeology in the university of paris in the early 70s His archives consist of personal notes drawings place clippings
Escalation files and a large amount of students homeworks and exams Uh, these archives had a mine of information for understanding and analyzing the introduction of a new discipline into a curriculum We followed a precise documentation
protocol From sorting and ranking to inventory from scanning to uploading and select a selection of the more interesting pieces Through that uploading we have created a detailed hierarchical tree
Which perfectly corresponds to the physical? organization of the archives in the shelves of our department In order to further use the suski archives we created Thanks to the net line plugin a virtual exhibition showing on an interactive map the main stages of the scholar's education and
scientific career This is a good example of mecca's flexibility Which not only allows to store and manage that data, but also to produce new data In other words from data collecting and data processing. We finally reach data visualization
A completely new resource which a great heuristic potential produced by students and to be used by students and scholars Uh despite various technical issues and textual or iconographical
Errors which will be corrected in the next week. We are proud that through this experiment We have been able to combine material and virtual traditional approaches and digital humanities 3d 2d and 3d description and visualization teaching and dissemination
Thanks to the involvement of students our department is promoting its heritage and creating a digital one But but students themselves have been able to take profit of this project in their academic training And to add line to their resume in the context of a job market whose credo has become
Then a more than ever think digital. Thank you for your attention