Cetinje, Mile Jovanov Nevena Ackovska Smile Markovski Educational aspects of digitization of national heritage

Center for Digitization of National Heritage - Macedonia Cetinje, Introduction The Digitization of national heritage is a process concerning several aspects the digital presentation of the cultural heritage elements When using digital presentation, in order to complete the goal, one needs to use different multimedia technologies sound processing and generation creating and processing of photos generating, processing and producing of videos creating 3D visualizations and animations their integration in a final product, in order to achieve appropriate presentation and means of easy distribution. These technologies, which are extremely important for the digital presentation of the national heritage, can be learned in the most of the Multimedia courses included in the Information technologies or Computer Science studies

Center for Digitization of National Heritage - Macedonia Cetinje, Course Multimedia at II Lectures 2 hours per week Prof. D-r Smile Markovski Mile Jovanov (some parts) Lab tutorials 4 class hours per week Marjan Kindalov Nikolče Mihajlovski Goran Kolevski Nikola Lazovski

Center for Digitization of National Heritage - Macedonia Cetinje, XML related multimedia technologies Introduction XML and XML related technologies XSL and XSLT transformations An introduction to SMIL and SVG How XML, SMIL and SVG are related The SMIL specification modules Authoring and delivery platforms Server side techniques for processing and transforming XML Design issues Advanced and selected topics within XML based multimedia technologies Future perspectives: 3G services, mobility and XML related technologies

Center for Digitization of National Heritage - Macedonia Cetinje, Lab tutorial Four main parts 2D Graphics 3D Graphics Sound Macromedia Flash Idea: One assistant – one part

Center for Digitization of National Heritage - Macedonia Cetinje, Macromedia Flash

Center for Digitization of National Heritage - Macedonia Cetinje, ► Macromedia Flash ► ► 6 hours Development environment. Panels. Time... Film vs. animation Types of elements Animation structure in Flash Pictures, picture optimization Sound, sound optimization Introduction to Action Script 1.0 Standard operators, control structures......

Center for Digitization of National Heritage - Macedonia Cetinje, ► Macromedia Flash ► ► 6 hours Movie Clip and Button elements Event handling Use of Math, Key, Selection objects Arrays and methods Home made check box, scroll, subscribe form… Interactive menus....

Center for Digitization of National Heritage - Macedonia Cetinje, Sound recording editing reproduction sequencing compression...

Center for Digitization of National Heritage - Macedonia Cetinje, ► Sound ► ► 12 hours “Audacity” software product for sound processing “Anvil Studio” software for sound generation MIDI programming

Center for Digitization of National Heritage - Macedonia Cetinje, D graphics Raster Vector

Center for Digitization of National Heritage - Macedonia Cetinje, Introduction to GIMP and application Types of colors, layers, chanels Selections Masks Toolbox Filters (Blur, Light effects, Glass effects, Artistic, Text effects...) Scripts Print ► 2D Graphics ► ► 8 hours

Center for Digitization of National Heritage - Macedonia Cetinje, ► 2D Graphics ► ► 4 hours Introduction to Coral Draw and application Primary menu Using lines, brushes, shapes Effects Using colors Using text 3D effects Layers Using bit – maps Print

Center for Digitization of National Heritage - Macedonia Cetinje, D graphics Maya - 3D modeling and animation Virtual Dub –for video capture and linear processing

Center for Digitization of National Heritage - Macedonia Cetinje, Maya Status bar QWERTY tools Line up Hotbox Marking menus Channel box Attributes editor … ► 3D Graphics ► ► 10 hours

Center for Digitization of National Heritage - Macedonia Cetinje, ► 3D Graphics ► ► 10 hours

Center for Digitization of National Heritage - Macedonia Cetinje, Project! In order to complete the course, students must produce a project!

Center for Digitization of National Heritage - Macedonia Cetinje, Project The digital presentation of the national heritage of one country incorporates the usage of the previously mentioned technologies particularly modern and very attractive area The projects include presentations of very important segments of Macedonian national heritage Projects are created as part of collaboration between the Center of digitization of National Heritage of Macedonia (CDNH) at the Institute of Informatics and the students taking the Multimedia course

Center for Digitization of National Heritage - Macedonia Cetinje, CDNH Macedonia Formed activities focused toward development of a digitized presentation of the national heritage of Macedonia via: building a web portal of the CDNH producing application programs and programming tools for national heritage presentation organizing seminars, workshops and conferences involving new teaching materials in students education at Institute of Informatics...

Center for Digitization of National Heritage - Macedonia Cetinje, The role of CDNH The role of CDNH is to communicate with the relevant institutions involved in the conservation of Macedonian national heritage to understand the needs of these institutions to prepare action plan for the forthcoming activities and projects, and to complete those projects These activities include the creation of various digital presentations, and their integration in web pages for Internet presentations as part of CD presentations

Center for Digitization of National Heritage - Macedonia Cetinje, Bridge: educational process at II cultural institutions in MKD Educational institution Lecturer CDNH Cultural institution Contact person Project Multimedia course curricula

Center for Digitization of National Heritage - Macedonia Cetinje, Student projects Multimedia based: 3D animations, Virtual tours, Panorama views, Musically supported, Picture galleries, Texts, Movie recordings...

Cetinje, Student project – “Ubavinite na Matka”

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Center for Digitization of National Heritage - Macedonia Cetinje, Results This approach in teaching Multimedia course enables the students to create part of the projects that are incorporated in the official digital presentation of the national heritage of Republic of Macedonia The idea that their work is presented to broader Macedonian community motivates them to achieve their maximal potentials, both in qualitative as well as in the quantitative aspect of the project creation These types of projects give the students opportunity to feel the real team spirit, require managing the time and resources, and communication with authorities and people from the cultural and historical community of the Republic of Macedonia

Center for Digitization of National Heritage - Macedonia Cetinje, Conclusion The digital presentation of national heritage offers enormous opportunities in application of the students’ skills acquired in the course of Multimedia It is evident that due to the fact that these projects are available to broader public through their web accessibility, the students are highly motivated to create more interesting presentations The motivation itself leads the students to global understanding of the multimedia technologies and a desire to master all of the software products taught in the Multimedia course

Center for Digitization of National Heritage - Macedonia Cetinje, The portal is continuously enriched CDNH web portal