Distinguished Lectures in Digital Humanities: The Future of the Virtual Past
Event details
| Date | 20.01.2016 |
| Hour | 09:00 › 10:00 |
| Speaker | Prof Maurizio Forte, Bass Fellow, Department of Classical Studies, Duke University |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
The future of the human knowledge will be mostly digital. A transition from a linear growth of to an exponential growth of human knowledge is taking place. This phenomenon will necessitate the development of vastly more complex softwares, shareability strategies, and new digital environments.
The biggest impact might be universal access to all human knowledge. The world is moving rapidly towards ubiquitous connectivity that will further change how and where people associate, gather and share information, and consume media. For example, in archaeology and in the field of the digital humanities we now produce hundreds/thousands of times the amount of data we were able to generate just a few years ago. This jump in volume became possible through the use of digital integrated technologies such as 3D laser scanners, remote sensing systems, image modeling, virtual reality, and immersive systems. Much of these data involve 3D analysis and scientific visualization of complex models, whose use and interpretation depend on human interaction and processing (hardware and software). The quality of the hardware and software, in tandem, deeply influence the user’s experience, feedback, interpretation and digital knowledge/transmission.
How can we represent this digital knowledge? What kind of feedback, interaction, virtual hermeneutics are expected? How much the way we digitally record/interact can influence our interpretation? This talk will present different case studies in the above-mentioned scenario at the intersection of cyberarchaeology, virtual museums, big data and virtual environments.
The biggest impact might be universal access to all human knowledge. The world is moving rapidly towards ubiquitous connectivity that will further change how and where people associate, gather and share information, and consume media. For example, in archaeology and in the field of the digital humanities we now produce hundreds/thousands of times the amount of data we were able to generate just a few years ago. This jump in volume became possible through the use of digital integrated technologies such as 3D laser scanners, remote sensing systems, image modeling, virtual reality, and immersive systems. Much of these data involve 3D analysis and scientific visualization of complex models, whose use and interpretation depend on human interaction and processing (hardware and software). The quality of the hardware and software, in tandem, deeply influence the user’s experience, feedback, interpretation and digital knowledge/transmission.
How can we represent this digital knowledge? What kind of feedback, interaction, virtual hermeneutics are expected? How much the way we digitally record/interact can influence our interpretation? This talk will present different case studies in the above-mentioned scenario at the intersection of cyberarchaeology, virtual museums, big data and virtual environments.
Practical information
- Informed public
- Free
Organizer
- Institute of Digital Humanities
Contact
- Sabine Süsstrunk