Cultures Anglophones et Technologies de l’Information
(CATI)
Université Paris-Sorbonne Paris IV
Liliane Gallet-Blanchard
Marie-Madeleine Martinet
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Humanities end-users
Research and teaching
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Broadband networks needed for:
• Authoring and delivering multimedia resources
– sound and video files
– virtual reality projects
• Access to databases
– full-text databases
– image databases
• Networking and collaborative projects
– distance education
– international cooperation
– European ‘IST’ (Information Society Technologies)
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Authoring and delivering multimedia resources
• Multimedia effects
• Example :
Georgian Cities
CD-ROM
 with broadband networks, it might be available over
the academic network as well
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Authoring and delivering multimedia resources
• Image, music, animation, pop-ups, video, editable fields
 Need for rapid response time
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Authoring and delivering multimedia resources
• Image, music, animation, pop-ups, video, editable fields
 Need for rapid response time
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Authoring and delivering multimedia resources
• Image, music, animation, pop-ups, video, editable fields
Need for rapid response time
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Authoring and delivering multimedia resources
• Virtual reality projects
fast real-time
computing
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Authoring and delivering multimedia resources
• Virtual Sorbonne project:
Record of online exchanges between Paris-Sorbonne and US lab
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Authoring and delivering multimedia resources
• Example : downloading a 150 Mb file by ftp from
Chicago for the ‘Virtual Sorbonne ’ project took
an hour and a half
– though it was at a low-traffic hour in France
– no compression
– was not faster than with a 56 K modem
• and all this for 2 or 3 minutes of VR activity
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Authoring and delivering multimedia resources
• Virtual reality projects
 fast real-time
computing
Virtual « Jazz Age Montmartre »
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Access to databases
• Subscription to
full-text databases
with powerful
search facilities
(combined
searches)
 Fast access
across networks
needed
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Access to databases
• Image databases
 Fast load-time
needed
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Networking and collaborative projects
• Distance education &
training for research
• Online course material
and resources
– Virtual libraries
 Network facilitating
use of platform
allowing interactivity
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Networking and collaborative projects
• Distance education &
training for research
• Online course material
and resources
 with interactivity
Network facilitating
use of platform
allowing interactivity
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Networking and collaborative projects
• International
cooperation:
–video-and webcam
conferencing
–joint projects
high-speed
connectivity needed image, sound, real time
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Networking and collaborative projects
• International
cooperation:
– videoconferencing
– joint projects
high-speed
connectivity needed image, sound, real time
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Timeline of joint international VR project showing contribution of
participants: Missouri University/Illinois/Paris-Sorbonne Paris IV.
(exchange of documents through Internet)
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Networking and collaborative projects
• At European level : IST
 networks of comparable
capacity needed
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Networking and collaborative projects
• European postgraduate
programme designed to
create the first generation
of trainers for new
professions in the
humanities computing field
(CHiME network)
 networks of comparable
capacity needed
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Research and teaching
• Spinout from research to teaching
– Multimedia material created as a research project is used as
teaching resource (hypermedia skills)
– Conferences with presentations of software for researchers
are also part of students’ curriculum (information-gathering
reports): Chapelle de la Sorbonne, presentations on
computer models, department of Architecture, Bath.
 These resources might be networked
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Research and teaching
•From teaching to research : institutional support
–
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Graduate schools : increased role of training in information skills
Academic networks for development of information skills:
‘Campus numérique: Réseaux.doc’, Paris-Sorbonne project leader
 Networking the resources of 13 European universities
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Research and teaching
• From teaching to research: curriculum development
– Introduction of search strategies as part of students ’
curriculum
° undergraduate ‘methodology’ courses
° ‘information skills’ for graduates
– Humanities computing skills will be part of the
European degree structure at each level
 IT facilities including broadband networks will be
necessary in all subject areas
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Cultures Anglophones et Technologies de l’Information
(CATI)
Université Paris-Sorbonne Paris IV
• Contact us:
[email protected]
[email protected]
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