How Lithuanian Partners Contribute to CHIMER

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How Lithuanian Partners Contribute to CHIMER

• Dr. Nerute Kligiene (Lithuania),
• Institute of Mathematics and Informatics

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What is the most important in CHIMER?

• CHILDRENS
• HERITAGE
• INTERACTIVE
• MODELS FOR
• EVOLVING
• REPOSITORIES
• CHIMER

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CHIMER aims

• To research tools and methods liable to
  encourage 9-12 aged schoolchildren across Europe
  to participate in building a living view of the
  cultural heritage of their villages, towns and
  regions
• To use emerging technologies such as multimedia
  systems integrated with GIS and mobile IT

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Means for use in achieving the aims

• Future learning environment approach
• Advanced ICT GIS, WAP, GPRS, UMTS, mobile
  technologies and devices with MMS
• Collaboration of project partners in European
  countries close contacts with some of partners
  Consortiums, but not with all

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CHIMER deliverables

• European Cultural Heritage E-maps and Evolving
  Digital Heritage Repositories
• The first entries to Old Vilnius Repository done
• E-guide
• A trial version of Vilnius e-map at www.chimer.lt
• 3G Mobile Guide Applications M-guide
• Not available yet

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Lithuanian partners tasks

• Testing and evaluating (to start at September
  2003)
• Cognitive methodology proposed by partners (the
  Spain methodology and Learn to Use -- until
  now)
• Virtual territory and digital heritage repository
  created
• Accessibility, usability and adaptability of
  applications
• Tools e-guide, m-guide
• Addapting of CHIMER components
• Trials already started

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Cognitive Methodology

• Focus on trial of the approaches used by
  partners and the evaluation
• Localized version of Spain methodology used in
  Lithuania
• Attempts to try usability of DB approach
• Summer school seen as the opportunity to reach a
  common solution

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Local Agreements for CHIMER

• Omnitel the largest operator of mobile
  communications provided
• the NOKIA 7650 with free MMS services
• Several moths of free GPRS service for the
  project use
• The agreement with Kuronian spit National park
  and GIS institution planned
• Vilnius Municipality in future focus

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Dissemination

• CHIMER project demonstration at the Frankfurt
  Book Fair, 9-14 October 2002
• a text in the Frankfurt Book Fair Catalogue
• dynamical Flash show representing the CHIMER,
  demonstrated on the wall
• The articles published on the EU funded projects
  in Lithuania "Success Stories LT"
• The English version - on CD and accessible
  online http//www.tpa.lt/5FP/IST/ist_chimer.html

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Dissemination (2)

• Cultural Heritage and Education in Digital Space
  Opportunities and Problems /TELEBALT
  International Conference
• Lithuanian National Radio-Live broadcast at the
  "Autumn Studio"
• PowerPoint presentation about the CHIMER project
  for Lithuanian firms
• the NOKIA 7650 with free services received for
  the project use

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Digital heritage repository and e-map

• Information online and accessible by mobile
  devices
• The Old Town of Vilnius has been selected in
  Lithuania, the National Park at the Baltic
  seaside as a vision where e-map would be the
  most useful
• Children track and record all the way points of
  the route between places of interest using a GPS
  device
• Children, teachers collect cultural information
  and merge it with vector map

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E-guide

• Based on the information produced by all the
  participating schools and cultural institutions -
  now in preliminary phase
• The central web portal www.chimer.org linked to
  local portals in local languages (not all
  available yet)
• Lithuanian www.chimer.lt has started to
  implement local geo-heritage several waypoints
  with texts, audio, images and video included into
  vector map

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M-guide

• To be developed by technical partners
• Institute for Advanced Management Systems
  Research IAMSR, Abo, Finland
• Zentrum für Graphische Datenverarbeitung, Rostok,
  Germany
• An application enabling different services
• MMS and SMS messaging
• MMS-maps of territory with multimedia cultural
  information /a new MAP service already
  available in Lithuania but not cultural/

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Lets be acquainted the young partners

• Czech Republic
• Spain
• Germany
• The Netherlands
• Children, teachers will create a living view of
  cultural heritage in digital repository connected
  to GIS and accessible online and by mobile phones

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Lets be acquainted the Lithuanian young
partners

• Ready to know more on
• Vilnius Old Town cultural objects
• Represent them in digital space
• GIS, determine the geographical coordinates
• Create a content for e-guide, m-guide, e-map

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Lithuanian young partnerson work

• Creating waypoints in Vilnius Old Town,nearly
  the masterpiece of late Gothic, St. Annes
  Church,
• Video available on web site

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Lithuanian young partnerson work

• Girls enjoy the challenge to know more,to
  create, to communicate

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Lithuanian young partnerson work

• Creating the waypoints with GPS in Vilnius Old
  Town

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Lithuanian Web Sitewww.chimer.lt
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An Example of e-map with cultural information
retrieved
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Trip to Smiltyne from Gargzdai Gymnasium
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Steps of preparation

• Theoretical and practical introduction of using
  tools to create e-maps.
• Material prepared by teacher route, printed
  map, coordinates of objects.
• Tools GPS, photo and video cameras.

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Setting coordinates using GPS
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Setting route on the map and in GPS
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Taking photos and videos
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Recapitulation of material collected during the
trip.
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Project information

• Online
• General - www.chimer.org - Expressions of CHIMER
• Lithuanian www.chimer.lt (in Lithuanian and
  English)
• Contact personDr. Nerute Kligiene,
  nerute_at_ktl.mii.ltInstitute of Mathematics and
  Informatics,
• A. Gostauto 12, Vilnius, LT-2600,
• Tel. [phone]