http://eculture.salzburgresearch.at/programm_e.pdf

At  “eCulture Horizons” (From Digitisation to Creating Cultural Experiences) event in Salzburg, Giunti Interactive Labs presents new achievements from its RD Project "SculptEUR", bringing the power of 3d Content Harvesting and Virtual Reality reconstruction to the World of standard eLearning Authoring.

Salzburg  21/09/2004. 

Giunti Interactive Labs (short name Giunti Labs, www.giuntilabs.com), Europe’s leading  eLearning R&D and Standardisation actor and  developer of learn eXact (www.learnexact.com), world's leading LCMS Technology, is pleased to announce that at  the next  eCulture Horizons Symposium (From Digitisation to Creating Cultural Experiences, 27-28 September 2004 University of Salzburg,  Austria), it will present  new achievements from its flagship  R&D Project SCULPTEUR (www.sculpteurweb.org).  

With a  Consortium of 10 international partners from the UK, France and Italy and grouping leading European Museums such as The National Gallery, Gli Uffizi, Le Louvre, The Victoria & Albert Museum and the Cherbourg Museum, the SCULPTEUR Project addresses usage of new eContent technologies (e.g Web Services and XML) and Interoperability Standards (e.g. Z39.50 from the US Library of Congress, for Digital Libraries and the Shareable Content Objects Reusable Model, SCORM , from NATO, for eLearning) to automate distributed access to relevant cultural archives available in Museum & Libraries by means of easy  2d and 3d sample based querying  and the authoring of Virtual Reality Worlds, named SCO Worlds(c).

With an undoubt attraction for Museum based Education and Teaching, the new Toolset (to be released within Q4 as a learn eXact plug in, named eXact VR), able to  recreate immersive digital environments easily  deployable on any   standard  eLearning  platform (also with adaptive and rule based navigation  through  different rooms and environments as supported by the new SCORM 2004 specification)  is proving of great interest also in other market sectors such as Industrial Maintenance  Training , Vocational Learning  and Medical Education willing to bring the visualisation of standard eLearning contents to the next stage  using immersive simualtions and VR. 

Useful Links

• Giunti Labs’ Speech at  eCulture Horizons 2004:

Monday 27  September Session 4C (16-18): 

New Technological Dimensions in eCulture: using VR, Mobile and Location  Based Services for Cultural Heritage Education

 (Giunti Labs professionals will also be available  during the Symposium to demonstrate a preview of the eXact VR toolset )

• About  eCulture Horizon Symposium: http://eculture.salzburgresearch.at/index_e.html
• Full Agenda at http://eculture.salzburgresearch.at/programm_e.pdf
• For further information on  Salzburg Research : http://www.salzburgresearch.at 
•  For further information on SCORM: http://www.adlnet.org
•  For further information on  Z31.50  : http://www.loc.gov/  
•  About Giunti Labs Research Projects: http://www.giuntilabs.com/research     
• For further information on learn eXact LCMS : http://www.learnexact.com  
• For VR Demo on SculptEUR Virtual Museum: http://www.sculpteurweb.org/html/VirtualMuseum/VAM_ArtDecoGallery.wrl

 www.giuntilabs.com                       www.sculpteurweb.org

For additional informations:

Giunti Interactive Labs

Gian Maria Brega

Marketing & communication manager

Via Portobello, Abbazia dell’Annunziata

16039 Sestri Levante (GE) Italy

Tel +39 018542123/42608 - Fax +39 018543347

Email: gm.brega@giuntilabs.com