On-Demand Webcasts: Virtual Worlds

Webcasts Alyse Dunavant-Jones Bethany Winslow Dr. Valerie Hill

Virtual Worlds vs Virtual Reality Smackdown Event

Our first presenter, Alyse Dunavant-Jones, argues that “VR is the future, and the future is now!” Our second presenter, Bethany Winslow, cautions that “Regardless of what VR platforms are used in the future, designers of effective immersive learning with VR must know the history of virtual worlds in education as well as have some hands-on experience in using them.” The sparing partners will be moderated by Dr. Valerie Hill, the director of the Community Virtual Library in Second Life, Avacon, and Kitely.

Webcasts Marie Vans

The Best of Archiving’19: Lisbon Recap

The International Society for Imaging Science & Technology, Archiving’19 is an international community of technical experts, managers, practitioners, and academics from cultural heritage institutions, universities, and commercial enterprises, to explore and discuss the digitization, preservation and access of 2D, 3D, and AV materials. This year’s conference was held in May at the Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo in Lisbon, Portugal. I will be recapping the best of the program including those from CERN, the Library of Congress, Smithsonian, Purdue, J. Paul Getty Trust, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Image Science Associates, and Cognition, just to name a few. I will also summarize our presentation called “Preserving Virtual World Cultural Heritage using Preservica & Custom Metadata Schema.”