Learning Curve: Results from working with Zenodo
Working on the Visionary Cross project never ceases to amaze and provide more learning opportunities for me and at the same time testing the limits for syste...
Read More →Outputs
Research and media from the Visionary Cross Project: peer-reviewed publications, conference presentations, student theses, press coverage, and blogs from the early days of the project.
Articles & Book Chapters
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Thinking about Stone: An Elemental Encounter with the Ruthwell Cross
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Archaeology in the Study: Scanning Anglo-Saxon Artifacts in the Visionary Cross Project
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Ruthwell Cross
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Modern Impact on the Fabric of the Ruthwell Cross
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The Dream and the Cross: A 3D Scanning Project to Bring 3D Content in a Digital Edition
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Artworks Narrating a Story: A Modular Framework for the Integrated Presentation of Three-Dimensional and Textual Contents
Talks & Posters
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Loss and Editorial Mediation in the 3D Edition: Translating Stone to Screen in the Visionary Cross Project
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Stone to Screen: The Visionary Cross Digital Edition
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I'm Looking Through You: Building the Interface for a 3D Edition for The Visionary Cross Project
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Good Things Come in Small Packages: Designing Distributed Editions and Tools for the Age of FAIR Data
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Publishing (and Forgetting) the Small or Medium-sized Scholarly Edition or Cultural Heritage Collection as Linked Open Data: Using Zenodo and GitHub to Publish the Visionary Cross Project
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Let's Get Nekkid! Stripping the User Experience to the Bare Essentials
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Living Out Loud: The Visionary Cross Project and the Public Humanities
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The Dream and the Cross: Bringing 3D Content in a Digital Edition
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The Visionary Cross Project
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Immersive Interpretation and the Small Cultural Heritage Site: The Case of Ruthwell Kirk
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Il progetto Visionary Cross: verso un'edizione digitale multimediale e distribuita
Theses
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Oltre il testo: implementazione di una vista 3DHOP in EVT per integrare i modelli 3D nelle edizioni digitali
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Digital Killed the Labelling Star: Approaching the Territory-Museum with Mobile Technology
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Acquisizione della Croce di Ruthwell: creazione e possibili utilizzi di un modello 3D fedele di un reperto storico
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Il Sogno e la Croce: presentare Il Sogno della Croce nel contesto della Croce di Ruthwell
Legacy Project Updates
Notes from the field and the lab, written as the work happened. These posts were taken form a past itteration of the website.
Let’s get nekkid! Stripping the user experience to the bare essentials (CSDH/SCHN Abstract)
The Visionary Cross project is an extensible, multi-object, multi-media edition of a Cultural Matrix in Anglo-Saxon England. It is built around mediated repr...
Read More →Year End Report
This is supposed to be done before the new year begins but past year did not end as well as I expected due to some serious sickness. But still we got quiet a...
Read More →2016 Update: A lot of work (and some stresses) behind the scenes
I see with horror that it’s been a year since we last posted something to the Visionary Cross site!
Read More →Well that’s that. Solving (?) the VC model and workflow
Yesterday, Dot Porter, one of the leads on the Visionary Cross project visited Lethbridge for a project meeting (and to speak to my DH class). The main purpo...
Read More →Time to say goodbye
I can’t really believe my three-month adventure in Canada is coming to an end. I found it hard to summarize everything happened to me during my stay, but I h...
Read More →A meeting with Marco about the work we’ve done so far
Last Friday, we had a meeting with Marco about the work done so far and the future work of mapping the point from one to another.
Read More →A simple demo using Unreal Engine
Thanks to the people who have been working on Unreal Engine, we got the cross model and created a very basic scene using the 3rd person template in Unreal.
Read More →Meshlab is a fantastic tool!
After talking to both sides working on Unreal and 3DHOP, we found out that they were not using the same model. We wanted to see if convert a model from.obj (...
Read More →The Visionary Cross Project announces a free beta test of its viewer for the Ruthwell Cross
You can access the test viewer at the following URL: http://vcg.isti.cnr.it/cross/
Read More →Beta testers sought for Ruthwell Cross viewer
The Visionary Cross project is preparing a launch of a beta version of its Ruthwell Cross viewer.
Read More →Abstract: Is there a text in this edition? On the implications of multiple media and immersive technology for the future of the “scholarly edition.”
By Daniel Paul O’Donnell, University of Lethbridge, James Graham, University of Lethbridge, Catherine Karkov, University of Leeds, Roberto Rosselli Del Turco...
Read More →Project update: meshes complete; common repository established
A brief project update. Now that we are starting to get our data in usable shape, we hope to report more regularly here about what we are doing.
Read More →Call for Papers: Cultural, Textual, and Material Heritage in the Digital Age: Projects and Practices
The twentieth International Medieval Congress, Leeds, 1-4 July 2013
Read More →Call for participants: New Digital Paradigms for Anglo-Saxon Studies
International Society of Anglo-Saxonists (ISAS), July 29th-August 2, 2013, Dublin
Read More →Linked data, open data: Towards a semantic web of Anglo-Saxon England
International Society of Anglo-Saxonists (ISAS), July 29th-August 2, 2013, Dublin
Read More →Some early screenshots from the 3D work
Had a quick visit to Pisa yesterday and today to discuss aspects of the project with Roberto Rosselli Del Turco and to see the latest results and discuss fut...
Read More →A Grad Student’s Experience at the Scanning of the Ruthwell Cross
I have been urged to share my experiences as a graduate student of this past trip to do the 3D scanning of the Ruthwell cross. At the time I was putting it o...
Read More →Ruthwell aftermath
Back from the Ruthwell Cross scanning week, and what an amazing experience that was!
Read More →Second day data
Thursday was the second day of scanning and photography (pictures of the scanning work can be found here). On Wednesday, we finished the top 1.5 metres or so...
Read More →First day scanning
We’re about to start the first day scanning.
Read More →Some preliminary results
The results of the first day’s scanning are starting to come in. Some amazing photography and the first preliminary 3D point clouds to check we were getting ...
Read More →Plans roaring ahead for Visionary Cross scanning
The preparation is coming together for the scanning of the Ruthwell Cross… and it involves some skills they never taught me in gradschool!
Read More →Scanning provisionally planned for April 17-21, 2012
The visionary cross team has scheduled April 17-21, 2012 for scanning the Ruthwell Cross (pending final approval from Historic Scotland). The scanning will i...
Read More →The Brussels Cross
The Brussels Cross or Drahmal Cross is an Anglo-Saxon cross–reliquary of the early 11th century, now in the treasury of the Cathedral of SS. Michel and Gudul...
Read More →The Bewcastle Cross
The Bewcastle Cross is an eighth-century standing stone cross also found on a former Roman military site, in this case on the terrace just inside the gate....
Read More →The Ruthwell Cross
The Ruthwell Cross is a 17 foot high stone cross erected in the eighth century near a former military site (later probably a monastery) in Dumfriesshire. The...
Read More →The Vercelli Book
The Codex Vercellensis, or Vercelli Book, as it is known in the Anglo-Saxon world and now also in Italy, is a manuscript dating back to the end of the 10th...
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