The London Charter in Second Life

  • Best practice for heritage visualisation in Virtual Worlds
  • creating tools: developing technologies to assist users of Second Life to document their research processes and outcomes
  • developing guides: helping users of Virtual Worlds to communicate the intellectual integrity of research-based heritage visualisations.
  • fostering understanding: explaining the terms that people from different professional backgrounds use to talk about heritage visualisation.

News

Publication January 25, 2011

Project participants Hugh Denard, Enrica Salvatori and Maria Simi have an chapter forthcoming in “Learning by building in Second Life: reflections on interdisciplinary and international experiences” in Giovanni Vincenti & James Braman (eds) Multi-User Virtual Environments for the Classroom: Practical Approaches to Teaching in Virtual Worlds (IGI Global)

Publication

Project participants Hugh Denard, Enrica Salvatori and Maria Simi have published a new article, “An Integrated Approach to Digital Cultural Heritage”, in M. Ioannides, D.Fellner, A.Georgopoulos, D.Hadjimitsis (eds.) Digital Heritage Proceedings of EuroMed2010, Cyprus 2010: Short Papers. (Archaeolingua, Budapest, 2010), pp.73-78

Publication December 15, 2009

An article by project participants Marco Bani, Francesco Genovesi, Elisa Ciregia, Flavia Piscioneri, Beatrice Rapisarda, Enrica Salvatori and Maria Simi, that draws on the work of the project, appears in Judith Molka-Danielsen’s and Mats Deutschmann’s volume Learning and Teaching in the Virtual World of Second Life (Tapir Academic Press, Trondheim 2009), pp.125-144.

Italian edition of the London Charter 2.1 December 4, 2009

The Italian language edition of Draft 2.1 of the London Charter is published on www.londoncharter.org, edited by Enrica Salvatori, with contributions by Marco Bani.

Public lecture in London

On 8th December 2009, KCL hosts the concluding event of the project.