Educational aspects
of digitization of
national heritage
Mile Jovanov
Nevena Ackovska
Smile Markovski
Cetinje, 15.09.2007
Introduction
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The Digitization of national heritage is a process concerning
several aspects
 the digital presentation of the cultural heritage elements
When using digital presentation, in order to complete the goal,
one needs to use different multimedia technologies
 sound processing and generation
 creating and processing of photos
 generating, processing and producing of videos
 creating 3D visualizations and animations
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their integration in a final product, in order to achieve appropriate
presentation and means of easy distribution.
These technologies, which are extremely important for the digital
presentation of the national heritage, can be learned in the most
of the Multimedia courses included in the Information
technologies or Computer Science studies
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Course Multimedia at II
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Lectures
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2 hours per week
Prof. D-r Smile Markovski
Mile Jovanov (some parts)
Lab tutorials
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4 class hours per week
Marjan Kindalov
Nikolče Mihajlovski
Goran Kolevski
Nikola Lazovski
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- Macedonia
Cetinje, 15.09.2007
XML related multimedia
technologies
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Introduction XML and XML related technologies
XSL and XSLT transformations
An introduction to SMIL and SVG
How XML, SMIL and SVG are related
The SMIL specification modules
Authoring and delivery platforms
Server side techniques for processing and transforming XML
Design issues
Advanced and selected topics within XML based multimedia
technologies
Future perspectives: 3G services, mobility and XML related
technologies
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Lab tutorial
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Four main parts
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2D Graphics
3D Graphics
Sound
Macromedia Flash
Idea: One assistant – one part
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Macromedia Flash
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► 6 hours
Development environment. Panels. Time...
Film vs. animation
Types of elements
Animation structure in Flash
Pictures, picture optimization
Sound, sound optimization
Introduction to Action Script 1.0
Standard operators, control structures...
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►Macromedia Flash ►
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Movie Clip and Button elements
Event handling
Use of Math, Key, Selection objects
Arrays and methods
Home made check box, scroll, subscribe
form…
• Interactive menus
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►Macromedia Flash ►
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Sound
recording
editing
reproduction
sequencing
compression
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► 12 hours
• “Audacity”
• “Anvil Studio”
• software for sound generation
• MIDI programming
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►Sound ►
• software product for sound
processing
2D graphics
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Raster
Vector
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► 8 hours
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Introduction to GIMP and application
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►2D Graphics ►
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Types of colors, layers, chanels
Selections
Masks
Toolbox
Filters
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Scripts
Print
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►2D Graphics ►
Introduction to Coral Draw and application
 Primary menu
 Using lines, brushes, shapes
 Effects
 Using colors
 Using text
 3D effects
 Layers
 Using bit – maps
 Print
3D graphics
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Maya - 3D modeling and
animation
Virtual Dub –for video capture
and linear processing
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Maya
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Status bar
QWERTY tools
Line up
Hotbox
Marking menus
Channel box
Attributes editor
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► 10 hours
►3D Graphics ►
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Project!
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In order to complete the course, students
must produce a project!
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Project 
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The digital presentation of the national heritage of
one country incorporates the usage of the previously
mentioned technologies
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particularly modern and very attractive area
The projects include presentations of very important
segments of Macedonian national heritage
Projects are created as part of collaboration
between the Center of digitization of National
Heritage of Macedonia (CDNH) at the Institute of
Informatics and the students taking the Multimedia
course
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CDNH Macedonia
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Formed 01.03.2005
activities focused toward development of a
digitized presentation of the national heritage of
Macedonia via:
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building a web portal of the CDNH
producing application programs and programming
tools for national heritage presentation
organizing seminars, workshops and conferences
involving new teaching materials in students
education at Institute of Informatics
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The role of CDNH
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The role of CDNH is
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to communicate with the relevant institutions involved in the
conservation of Macedonian national heritage
to understand the needs of these institutions
to prepare action plan for the forthcoming activities and
projects, and
to complete those projects
These activities include the creation of various
digital presentations, and their integration
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in web pages for Internet presentations
as part of CD presentations
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Bridge: educational process at II
<-> cultural institutions in MKD
CDNH
Multimedia
course
curricula
Project
Educational
institution
Project
Project
Project
Project
Lecturer
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Contact
person
Student projects
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Multimedia based:
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3D animations,
Virtual tours,
Panorama views,
Musically supported,
Picture galleries,
Texts,
Movie recordings
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Student project –
“Ubavinite na Matka”
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Results
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This approach in teaching Multimedia course enables the
students to create part of the projects that are incorporated in the
official digital presentation of the national heritage of Republic of
Macedonia
The idea that their work is presented to broader Macedonian
community motivates them to achieve their maximal potentials,
both in qualitative as well as in the quantitative aspect of the
project creation
These types of projects
 give the students opportunity to feel the real team spirit,
 require managing the time and resources, and
 communication with authorities and people from the cultural
and historical community of the Republic of Macedonia
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Conclusion
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The digital presentation of national heritage offers
enormous opportunities in application of the
students’ skills acquired in the course of Multimedia
It is evident that due to the fact that these projects
are available to broader public through their web
accessibility, the students are highly motivated to
create more interesting presentations
The motivation itself leads the students to global
understanding of the multimedia technologies
and a desire to master all of the software products
taught in the Multimedia course
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CDNH web portal
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The portal is continuously enriched
http://www.cdnh.edu.mk
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- Macedonia
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