A Virtual Tour to the Inscriptions of the UNESCO World Heritage Site St. Michael in Hildesheim

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A Virtual Tour to the Inscriptions of the UNESCO World Heritage Site St. Michael in Hildesheim

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Author(s): Anna Neovesky , Julius Peinelt

Publication date (Print): July 2015

Conference name: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts (EVA 2015) (EVA)

Conference theme: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts

Conference date: 7 & 9 July 2015

Keywords: Virtual cultural heritage, Panoramic tour, Visualisation, Generic software, Epigraphy

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Museums, places of interest and cultural heritage sites can be often visited on the Internet. Panoramic images and virtual tours allow to access distant sites from home. But can this popular and touristic way of presentation also be used to present scientific information to a broad public? This question arose at the Academy of Sciences and Literature | Mainz regarding its project “Deutsche Inschriften Online” (German Inscriptions Online). The research project “Die Deutschen Inschriften” collects and redacts medieval and early modern inscriptions in Europe, in the areas that are today the Federal German Republic, the Republic of Austria and South Tyrol. The results are published in currently over 80 volumes, 33 of these are also accessible online. To bring the scientific edition of the inscriptions in its spatial context and make the scientific content easily accessible to the general public, a virtual tour was designed and implemented for the UNESCO World Heritage Site St. Michael in Hildesheim. The scientific approach was to make inscriptions as an important aspect of historic evidence understandable for the broad public. The thematic focus lies on the dominant figure of the early history of the church, Bishop Bernward of Hildesheim. In the tour, the user can navigate through the church. Interactive elements indicate the possibility to transfer to different viewpoints or to show information about specific points of interest – most of them inscriptions, but also information on other relevant (art-) historic artefacts. On click a pop-up opens, containing general information on the inscriptions, the full transcription and the translation of the inscription. Furthermore, images of the inscription as well as sketches and old photographs are provided. References to the critical editions of the inscriptions in “Deutsche Inschriften Online” provide an easy access to the full scientific information. An encapsulated generic software package of the tour will be released in June 2015. The software allows its users to build virtual tours for other buildings and sites without any knowledge of programming.

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Anna Neovesky

Julius Peinelt

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Publication date: July 2015

Publication date (Print): July 2015

Pages: 285-290

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[0001]Academy of Sciences and Literature | Mainz

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[0002]Mr. Fridge Software

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/eva2015.31

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Conference location: London, UK

Conference date: 7 & 9 July 2015

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[1] ECMA 2013 The JSON Data Interchange Format In ECMA International, Standard ECMA-404 Geneva

[2] F KernK.-Ch., BruhnS MehligB Siegrist 2011a Messtechnik und Inschriftenforschung: Anwendungsbezogene Arbeiten in St. Michaelis zu Hildesheim Allgemeine Vermessungs-Nachrichten 118 11/12 381 390

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[4] S KernA Neovesky 2014 St. Stephan virtuell – Inschriften als Zeugnisse der 1000-jährigen Stiftsgeschichte von St. Stephan im Mainz im Web H Flothmann Jour fixe Büchlein – Kulturtreff der Freunde Gutenbergs Internationale Gutenberg-Gesellschaft in Mainz e.V Mainz

[5] R. M Kloos 1959 Die deutschen Inschriften (=The German inscriptions) Deutsches Archiv für Erforschung des Mittelalters 15 177 181

[6] K-B Kruse 2012 Zur Bautätigkeit Bischof Bernhards in Hildesheim G Lutz 1000 Jahre St. Michael in Hildesheim Imhof Petersberg 41 65

[7] M GutiérrezF VexoD Thalmann 2008 Stepping into Virtual Reality Springer

[8] A Neovesky 2012 St. Stephan virtuell – ein internetgestützter Panoramarundgang durch die Mainzer Stephanskirche – Entwicklung und Umsetzung eines Projektes im Bereich der digitalen Geisteswissenschaften Skriptum 2 2 URN: urn:nbn:de:0289-2012110220 15 March 2015

[9] S Rizvic 2014 Story Guided Virtual Cultural Heritage Applications Journal of Interactive Humanities 2 1 Article 2. DOI: 10.14448/jih.02.0002

[10] T Schrade 2012 Vom Inschriftenband zum Datenobjekt. Die Entwicklung des epigraphischen Fachportals „Deutsche Inschriften Online.“ (=From scholarly edition to data object. The evolution of the scholarly web portal “German Inscriptions Online”) N Henkel Inschriften als Zeugnisse kulturellen Gedächtnisses – 40 Jahre Deutsche Inschriften in Göttingen. Beiträge zum Jubiläumskolloquium vom 22. Oktober 2010 in Göttingen Reichert Verlag Wiesbaden 59 72

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[28] virtualTour https://github.com/digicademy/virtualTour 15 March 2015

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