Raven outside Witchcraft Museum

Personalized Cultural Heritage Experience outside the Museum - Connecting the Outside World to the Museum Experience

We propose a new area to focus upon as a research challenge: How to use personalized technology to connect our cultural heritage experiences to our "daily" lives. In particular we want to connect the visitor's museum experiences with outside relevant mobile cultural heritage experiences. We begin to examine what processes and technologies will be necessary to accomplish the when, what and how o...

John Raven

John Raven is Boyd Baxter Professor of Biology at the University of Dundee. He studied botany at the University of Cambridge, and stayed on for a PhD in plant biophysics with an exceptionally insightful scientist and mentor, Professor Enid MacRobbie. His research at Dundee is centred on how organisms acquire and manipulate resources from their environment with particular emphasis on photosynthe...

Historical Dictionary of Witchcraft

Witchcraft and Magic in Ireland

Image Databases for Museum Staff, Visitors and the Outside World: the Same Basic Material?

This paper deals with different kinds of Image databases In museum surroundings. Based on the experiences of the Natlonal Musuem of Denmark, different target audiences are mentioned, which requlre different user Interfaces, from Illustrated text databases (collection mangement systems) to highly interactive image databases for unqualified visitors. The question arises as to whether it is possib...