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CRADLE seminar to explore virtual museums
Aug. 31, 2004 — Learn how museum patrons of the future will visit museums virtually in a seminar with Dr. Brad Hemminger on Sept. 3. The Center for Research and Development of Digital Libraries (CRADLE) seminar will be at 12:30 p.m. in 208 Manning Hall.
Hemminger will present the basics of how entire museum exhibits, as well as individual pieces, can be digitized and viewed in virtual reality. He will also discuss how users will interact with online virtual museums.
At the end of the talk, participants will have the opportunity to test drive the world's first completely digitized museum exhibit, the Ackland Art Museum's 2003 exhibit "Plum, Pine, Bamboo: Seasonal and Spiritual Paths in Japanese Art." For more information on the project, visit http://sils.unc.edu/bmh/virseum.
CRADLE is a federation of parties interested in the migration, management and accessibility of digital information. It serves as a test bed for the development of digital libraries, while focusing on the training and education of digital librarians. For more information, visit http://sils.unc.edu/cradle.