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Bringing culture to the classroom
– Viziquest & Viziplay feature in "Celebrating UK Culture Online",
a new report from Collections Trust that celebrates current
innovative digital projects in museums, galleries, libraries and archives.
"Viziplay is a new platform from Deep Visuals Ltd, a Cambridge-based company working
to create new forms of interaction and engagement with cultural collections. Viziplay
allows schoolchildren to ‘curate’ digital objects and media into their own narratives,
which they can annotate and present in an appealing comic-strip format. The resulting
collections-based stories can be shared with friends and family via Social Networks."
The report was written as a response to a "call to arms" from Professor Nigel Shadbolt, Professor of Artificial Intelligence
at Southampton University and Open Data advisor to the UK Government.
Speaking to EU Culture Ministers at a Europeana Awareness event in Brussels, Professor Shadbolt said:
“Museums, archives and libraries are sitting on a goldmine of content and knowledge. By publishing these resources
as open data on the web, they can engage new audiences, build digital literacy and help drive the Digital Economy.”
Collections Trust CEO Nick Poole comments: "The UK's museums, galleries libraries and archives
have really embraced technology both as a means of sharing their collections and building new
relationships with their users. This new Report highlights some of the best of the current generation
of digital initiatives and looks ahead to how best we can meet the challenge laid down by Professor Shadbolt."
Celebrating UK Culture Online is available free of charge from Collections Link
Fitzwilliam Museum order Deep Visuals' ViziPlay educational system
The Education Department at the Fitzwilliam Museum have ordered the Viziplay (I) story-building system.
This will offer users the opportunity to build a story by selecting images of artefacts from the Fitzwilliam collection as props.
The system will be integrated within a new area of the Fitzwilliam website being aimed at Young People.
As well as working with Museum staff, some student input from Anglia Ruskin University is being incorporated into the detailed design.
Deep Visuals' sKTP Project Highlighted in Anglia Ruskin University January 2012 Bulletin
22nd November 2011, Lord Ashcroft Building, Anglia Ruskin University
The digital revolution of the past decade has created unprecedented new opportunities for the creation and dissemination
of all types of media content: music, film, writing, books, and archived materials. Traditional content ‘owners’ and
providers must compete with agile new entrants who pose new challenges to current business models, some of whom
question the very notion of cash for content.
Monetizing Content in a Digital Age addressed this topic from a variety of industry perspectives and
provided fresh insight into this complex and sometimes controversial area. Following the presentations
there followed a lively Q & A session with all of the speakers who were:
•Graham Taylor, Director of Educational, Academic and Professional Publishing at the Publishers Association
•Chris Thompson, Senior Advisor for Enterprise and Innovation at Ravensbourne and Consultant for Media and Technology Sectors for Greenwich Council.
•Heather Lane, Scott Polar Museum and Alan Payne, Director of Deep Visuals
•Sobia Hamid, Founder of Data Giving
ViziPlay II to be demonstrated at London's Business Design Centre
Deep Visuals have recently completed the project "Creative Learning From Digital Collections".
We were selected as winners in the Technology Strategy Board's 2011
Feasibility Study - Digital Services competition and awarded a grant to work on this project.
Winners of these competitions have been invited to "Collaboration Nation"
a new event showcasing innovative technology projects and companies.
The Collaboration Nation event concept includes dynamic
‘elevator pitch’ style speaker presentations to a live audience for all project winners,
and the opportunity for winning projects to exhibit to the wider community.
Our project resulted in Viziplay II, the interactive multimedia comic book
which we will demonstrate as part of our presentation.
The event takes place at the Business Design centre in London on October 10th 2011.
"Deep thinking": Double page article about Deep Visuals
Feature article about Deep Visuals in Catalyst
the Cambridge Science Park newsletter, summer 2011 edition p6-7
Deep Visuals feature in Cambridge News Article
Deep Visuals present at EVA London Conference
Alan Payne and Heather Lane (Scott Polar Research Institute) gave a presentation and demos of
ViziQuest and ViziPlay at "Electronic Visualisation and the Arts (EVA), London 2011"
Fitzwilliam Museum orders Deep Visuals' ViziQuest semantic browsing system
Deep Visuals Limited (DVL) have recently secured an order from the prestigious
Fitzwilliam Museum for their ViziQuest© visual semantic browsing system. This will be
applied to approximately 5000 digitised items from the Applied Arts collection at the
Fitzwilliam.
Deep Visuals exhibit the ViziQuest semantic browser at OpenCulture 2011
This is an annual
event held by the Collections Trust. From the OpenCulture website:
"The only major event focused on Collections, OpenCulture 2011 is an opportunity to network, debate the
latest developments in practice and get the inside track on the key issues affecting Collections over the next 5 years."
EEDA "Proof of Market" Award
Deep Visuals Limited (DVL) have been granted an
East of England Development Agency (EEDA) award to commission a Proof of Market project.
DVL have chosen England Marketing to undertake this work. England Marketing have experience of working
in the museums sector with a good network of contacts. They will be contacting many museums and art galleries
in the UK to understand the market needs and requirements for cultural digital archives and pursue
opportunities for the applications being developed by DVL.
ViziQuest technology on display at new exhibition at Polar Museum
A new exhibition from the Polar Museum (Cambridge) will feature the latest version of our ViziQuest
collection browsing technology. Entitled 'Return to Antarctica, The British Grahamland Expedition, 1934-37',
the expedition is open to the public from Thursday 20th January to Saturday 30th April 2011.
3,500 photographs taken during the expedition can be explored through our ViziQuest touch-screen installation
at the exhibition.