lemo: a virtual exhibition of 20th century german history
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LeMO: A Virtual Exhibition of 20th Century German History. Lutz Nentwig Fraunhofer Institute for Software and Systems Engineering ISST, Berlin in cooperation with: German Historical Museum, Berlin Haus der Geschichte of the Federal Republic of Germany, Bonn - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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LeMO: A Virtual Exhibition of 20th Century German History
Lutz Nentwig
Fraunhofer Institute for Software and Systems Engineering ISST, Berlin
in cooperation with:
German Historical Museum, BerlinHaus der Geschichte of the Federal Republic of Germany, Bonn
LeMO was funded by DFN-Society / Deutsche Telekom Berkom GmbH
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Contents
• Introduction
• Structuring content and access: VRML, HTML, search engine
• Architecture, Implementation
• Results
• Outlook
• Conclusion
• Demonstration
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Introduction
Virtual exhibition of 20th century German history for the Internet / B-WiN
Content:
• Film and sound material
• Image material (photos, paintings, graphics etc.)
• Printed material (books, newspapers, posters etc.)
• Period objects (vehicles, clothing, furniture etc.)
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Structuring Content and Access
20th century divided into 9 periods
Wilhelmine Germany (1900-1914), World War One (1914-1918), Weimar Republic (1918-1933), National Socialism (1933-1939), World War Two and the Holocaust (1939-1945), Post War Years (1945-1949), Divided Germany (1949-1989), German Unity (1989/1990), Approaches to the Present (since 1990)
Access: 3D (VRML) worlds, HTML, search engine
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3D Environments
VRML worlds for every period
Information environments
Atmospheric environments
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Examples VRML worlds
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HTML
Content:
• Text, photos of historical items, film and sound recordings
Links:
• topics in-depth, biographies, chronicles, period before, after, navigation page
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Example HTML
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Search Engine
Based on metadata
Search dimensions:
• place, time, keywords (e.g. persons), topics (politics, economy, culture etc.), data formats (VRML, HTML, jpg, video, audio etc.), objects (posters, sculptures, paintings, artifacts etc.)
Graphical interface
Archive
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Implementation
Use of Internet technologies
Integration of
• VRML, HTML, JavaScript, Java
• Streaming Video / Streaming Audio
Search engine: MeBro
High- / Low-End-Version
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Architecture
Browser Pug-In Applets
VRML HTML Java Video/Audio
WWW MetaDatabase
VideoAudio
HTTP StreamingProtocol
IP Protocols
B-WiN / Internet
Client
Server
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Results
31 VRML environments, over 4000 multimedia HTML pages including over 1000 texts on specific periods, themes or overviews, over 2500 images, over 700 biographies, 99 chronicles, over 260 videos /audio files
Full text search engine, limited extent via an archive
Pilot project:
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VRML worlds: up to 5 Mbyte, videos: up to 300 Kbit/s
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Multimedia PC , 2 Mbit/s Internet connection
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Outlook
LeMO+
• Metadata based search engine
• Guided tours
• Collective memory
• Use in schools
LeMO+ is funded by DFN-Society / BMBF.
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Conclusion
Experiencing history using a new medium
Available to everyone worldwide, but only in one place worldwide: the Internet
www.dhm.de/lemowww.hdg.de/lemowww.isst.fhg.de/~lemo