EDINA Annual Review: 2011-2012
are much cheaper than commercial rates from stock libraries. JISC MediaHub also provides access to institutional multimedia collections and communitycreated multimedia content, and is well embedded in other JISC products. Where feasible, JISC MediaHub searches relevant multimedia collections created by JISC Digitisation programmes; interworks with collections offered by others, e.g. BUFVC; contributes to Discovery; collaborates with JISC Advance; and supports the work of the Strategic Content Alliance. The JISC MediaHub blog was launched, with 16 posts and over 3600 unique visitors over the last year. The most successful post, prompted by Steven Spielberg’s film War Horse, highlighted images which showed the stark reality of life for horses on the battlefront during the First World War.
Innovating Augmented Reality technology in education [AddressingHistory] … makes a superb tool for watching the city of Edinburgh develop through the years before your very eyes! [AddressingHistory blog] Following on from the JISC Observatory Report in May 2011, EDINA continues to contribute to promoting the use of Augmented Reality (AR) technology in education. As a member of the Programme Committee for the International Augmented Reality Standards Community, Ben Butchart from our geospatial team has contributed to a Glossary of Terms to help make standardisation work easier and AR technology more accessible. This work has been subsequently incorporated into the ISO/IEC 23000-14 standardisation effort (Augmented Reality Reference Model- AR-RM). The JISC-funded project ‘AddressingHistory’ created an application that shows 18th and 19th century post office directory entries superimposed on maps of buildings they relate to, allowing users for example to connect the faded letters of business signs and advertisements, removed from masonry long ago, to the people and business that once used the buildings. AddressingHistory
The ‘Building Anatomy’ application, developed in conjunction with the Edinburgh College of Art, enables architecture students to superimpose 3-D models on their 2-D architectural diagrams. Looking forward to next year, a new EDINA project will create an Authoring Tool to make it much easier for educators to create their own smartphone applications, including AR visualisations.
Carmichael Watson – showcasing stories, songs, customs and beliefs in Scotland EDINA contributed to an Arts and Humanities Research Council funded project led by the University of Edinburgh Library. The project digitised the papers of the pioneering folklorist Alexander Carmichael (1832- 1912) of stories, songs, customs, and beliefs from the Gaelic-speaking areas of Scotland. EDINA designed and
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