This paper introduces an approach to generate video clips starting from an annotated commentary. The novelty of the approach lies in the use of rhetorical structure of the accompanying audio commentary in planning the video. The basic notions of cinematography are briefly introduced together with the Rhetorical Relation Theory to model the structure of a discourse. Then, the architecture of a v...

The research results from the Museum Learning Collaborative indicate that learning in museums (defined as conversational elaboration) is strongly influenced by three factors: 1) the learning environment (defined as the response to large design features); 2) conversational engagement (defined as explanatory, analytic and synthetic discussions of objects); 3) group identity (defined as knowledge,...

A museum with artistic value and function is a building created to maintain retell silent evidence relating the history of field, place nation. This design intended as an effort meet needs Pontianak City which also discourse city government in near future. The Museum was deemed necessary, because provincial capital, that has variety cultures. Heritage objects need be maintained preserved such m...

The astrolabe, an analog computing device, used to be the iconic instrument of astronomers during the Middle Ages. It allowed a multitude of operations of practical astronomy which were otherwise cumbersome to perform in an epoch when mathematics had apparently almost been forgotten. Usually made from wood or sheet metal, a few hundred instruments, mostly from brass, survived until today and ar...

The 21st century will see the emergence of a universal knowledge base accessible to the information privileged of the first world. Its elements will include full text of the world's libraries, text and image of its contemporary broadcast media products and large quantities of text and image from its archives and museums. What is not now clear is how archives and museums can best respond to this...

Sites of oppression might be remembered in ways that contribute to dialogues about human rights and justice, exemplified by Conscience. Oppression was commonplace former psychiatric institutions, yet such institutions are often subject strategic forgetting transformed into business parks, hotels, or residential areas. This article concerns Långbro Hospital, a digital museum presenting the insti...