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Chair, Text Encoding Initiative http://www.tei-c.org/
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University of Lethbridge
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Hi all,
I thought I'd pass on this interesting news item about one of our
members. Apologies for the delay... it has been sitting on my to do list
for a couple of days, but it has been one of those weeks.
-dan
> For Release: Jan. 9, 2007
>
> Contact: Clayton Berry
> Phone: (314) 977-7117
> E-mail: berrycl(a)slu.edu
>
> Theologians Use Video Game Technology to Create Virtual Tour of 13th
> Century Basilica
> Users can fly around structure and see famed frescoes up close
>
> ST. LOUIS -- Using technology typically associated with video games,
> two Saint Louis University theologians have created an interactive,
> three-dimensional tour of one of Europe's most important churches.
>
> Theology professors Jay Hammond, Ph.D., and James Ginther, Ph.D.,
> spent more than a year building the virtual version of Italy's
> landmark Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi. Located two hours
> northeast of Rome in Assisi, the basilica is the third-largest
> pilgrimage site in the world, drawing more than 5 million visitors
> annually.
>
> Their three-dimensional model permits virtual tour-goers to walk
> nearly everywhere in the upper basilica, and even fly up close to the
> church's famed frescoes and beautiful stained glass windows.
>
> That's in stark contrast to most other virtual tours of historic
> buildings, which rely on 360-degree panoramas and offer limited
> interactivity. While some other projects have been equally advanced,
> the SLU professors' tour is one of the first to run on your home
> computer.
>
> "That's why we chose a game engine to build our model," Ginther said.
> "We wanted to ensure that the virtual basilica would run on the
> average PC, not just expensive computers that only universities can
> afford. Preservation has no meaning unless there is access."
>
> The virtual basilica uses controls and functions similar to the
> popular video games, such as "Quake" and "Doom," sans the fighting of
> course.
>
> "We're both educators, and we wanted this project to connect with
> young people," Hammond said.
>
> Based on laser-accurate measurements of the basilica, the virtual tour
> was built with approximately 4,000 photographs, all taken prior to a
> 1997 earthquake that blew out two sides of the basilica. Because the
> basilica's leaders do not replace artwork that has been destroyed, the
> disc offers a version of the church that cannot be seen today,
> including frescoes that are forever lost.
>
> The virtual tour is available on the newly released CD-ROM, "The
> Virtual Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi," through the Institute of
> Digital Theology, a non-profit foundation affiliated with Saint Louis
> University. Proceeds will fund research, similar digital projects and
> student scholarships.
>
> The CD-ROM also features maps of the basilica as well as guides for
> the frescoes, which were painted by some of the leading artists of the
> day. Users can click on any fresco to read about its historical and
> religious significance. All told, the tour features 175 links for
> additional information and a 35,000-word text. There also is an
> animated friar for scale.
>
> The CD-ROM is designed for Windows 2000/NT/XP. It is available for
> purchase on the institute's Web site, www.digitaltheology.org and
> Amazon.
>
> With the upper level of the basilica complete, the SLU professors will
> create similar virtual tours of the lower church, crypt and exterior
> gardens. In June, the duo will break ground on another major project:
> a virtual tour of York Minster in York, England, the largest Gothic
> church in northern Europe.
>
> The Institute of Digital Theology is a registered non-profit
> foundation, affiliated with Saint Louis University. Its mission is to
> support research and teaching in theological studies and related
> humanities disciplines through the creation of multimedia projects,
> Web-based databases and other electronic resources. Housed in the
> University's department of theological studies, the institute focuses
> primarily on the preservation of historical artifacts and texts that
> have significant religious or theological meaning.
>
> Saint Louis University is a Jesuit, Catholic university ranked among
> the top research institutions in the nation. The University fosters
> the intellectual and character development of more than 12,000
> students on campuses in St. Louis and Madrid, Spain. Founded in 1818,
> it is the oldest university west of the Mississippi and the second
> oldest Jesuit university in the United States. Through teaching,
> research, health care and community service, Saint Louis University is
> the place where knowledge touches lives. Learn more about SLU at
> www.slu.edu.
>
--
Daniel Paul O'Donnell, PhD
Department Chair and Associate Professor of English
Director, Digital Medievalist Project http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/
Chair, Text Encoding Initiative http://www.tei-c.org/
Department of English
University of Lethbridge
Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4
Vox +1 403 329-2377
Fax +1 403 382-7191
Email: daniel.odonnell(a)uleth.ca
WWW: http://people.uleth.ca/~daniel.odonnell/
A new article has been added to the news section at DigitalMedivalist.org -- Building Community: Medieval Technology and American History. A free web site of curricular materials for schoolteachers, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities at The Center for Medieval Studies at Penn State University
To view this article, please follow this link: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/news.cfm?n_ID=81
Medievalismo - Portal de Historia Medieval
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Apreciados/as colegas,
Os detallo las próximas convocatorias, por si fueran
de vuestro interés:
Le usate leggiadrie. I cortei, le cerimonie, le feste
e il costume nel Mediterraneo tra XV e XVI secolo,
14-16 diciembre - Nápoles
El contrato político en Europa Occidental: la cadena
contractual en Castilla. Perspectivas Ciudadanas, 15
diciembre - Madrid
I Congreso Internacional de Sociedad de Estudios
Medievales y Renacentistas, 13-16 diciembre -
Salamanca
Monasteria et Territoria. Elites, edilicia y
territorio en el Mediterráneo Occidental (siglos V-XI)
, 18-20 diciembre - Madrid
Podéis encontrar más información sobre las mismas en
la sección 'Congresos' de la web.
Un cordial y atento saludo.
Jorge Maíz Chacón
Editor de Medievalismo.org
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Apreciados/as colegas,
Juan Miguel Mendoza Garrido (Almería)
Juan Bautista Salado Escaño (Málaga)
Carlos Espí Forcén (Universidad de Murcia)
Ricardo Piñero Moral (Universidad de Salamanca)
Dolores Carmen Morales Muñiz (UNED-C.A. Gregorio
Marañón)
Carolina Coelho Fortes (Universidade Gama Filho -
Brasil)
Alejandro García Avilés (Universidad de Murcia)
Gerardo Boto Varela (Universitat de Girona)
Elena González-Blanco García (CSIC - Madrid)
Manuel Melero Serrano (Madrid)
David Gestoso Morote (Málaga)
Luis Alejandro García García (Toledo)
Os recordamos que vuestras fichas de medievalistas se
actualizan siempre que lo deseéis, por eso os
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ampliar información o cualquier otra tarea.
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All,
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A fruitful discussion following our initial call for examples on the
TEI-L mailing list (see the thread starting with
<http://listserv.brown.edu/archives/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0612&L=tei-l&X=6FAA5839…>),
informed us that the initially proposed license scheme for the tutorials
was inadequate for our purposes. Therefore, we decided to adopt a more
liberal Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike license
(<http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/>).
In order to avoid confusion, here follows a revised call for examples:
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The Centre for Scholarly Editing and Document Studies (CTB)
<http://www.kantl.be/ctb/> of the Royal Academy of Dutch Language and
Literature, the Centre for Computing in the Humanities (CCH)
<http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/> of King's College London, and the
School for Library, Archive, and Information Studies (SLAIS)
<http://www.slais.ucl.ac.uk/> of University College London, are involved
in the joint project "TEI by Example".
Featuring freely available online tutorials walking individuals through
the different stages in marking up a document in TEI (Text Encoding
Initiative <http://www.tei-c.org>), these online tutorials will provide
examples for users of all levels. Examples will be provided of different
document types, with varying degrees in the granularity of markup, to
provide a useful teaching and reference aid for those involved in the
marking up of texts.
Eight tutorial modules will address a wide range of issues in text
encoding with TEI:
1. Introduction to text encoding with TEI
2. The TEI header
3. Prose
4. Poetry
5. Drama
6. Manuscript Transcription
7. Scholarly Editing
8. Customizing TEI, ODD, Roma
To build as much as possible on available sources of existing practice
in the field and to be able to present a broad view on the wide variety
of encoding practices, we warmly welcome you to contribute TEI-encoded
examples (either fragments or complete texts) that are applicable to any
of these subjects. Examples are preferably encoded as TEI P5 XML texts,
but also texts encoded in TEI P4 XML, other XML formats, or other
(documented) electronic formats are of interest. Even examples of
less-ideal encoding practices are welcome, since the idea of learning by
error is a valuable didactic principle. Please do provide some
indication of the errors or controversies in such examples when
appropriate. After selection and editing, the example fragments will be
incorporated in the freely available online deliverables, which will be
issued under a Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike license
(see <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/>). All contributors
will be credited.
The examples can be sent (preferably compressed in .zip format and with
an indication of applicability and credits due) to
teibyexample(a)kantl.be. Please do not hesitate to contact us for any
inquiries regarding copyright issues or any more general issues.
Kind regards,
The project team:
Ron Van den Branden,
Melissa Terras,
Edward Vanhoutte