Linked data, open data: Towards a semantic web of Anglo-Saxon England
International Society of Anglo-Saxonists (ISAS), July 29th-August 2, 2013, Dublin The Visionary Cross would like to propose a roundtable or three paper panel on linked and open data in Anglo-Saxon...
View ArticleHow not to use twitter in an emergency
Southern Alberta, including the City and County of Lethbridge, had an interesting afternoon. Fortunately, few if any people seem to have been hurt or lost their homes, though the fire may have hit at a...
View ArticleGlobal Outlook :: Digital Humanities and International Partnerships
My post last week on Digital Humanities in a global context (In a Rich Man’s World) was derived from a proposal to the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations for a new Special Interest Group...
View ArticleVisionary Cross/ISTI-CNR paper wins best paper award, Digital Heritage...
“The Dream and the Cross: a 3D-referenced, web-based digital edition” (Chiara Leoni, Marco Callieri, Matteo Dellepiane, Roberto Rosselli Del Turco, Daniel Paul O’Donnell, Roberto Scopigno) has been...
View ArticleBeta testers sought for Ruthwell Cross viewer
The Visionary Cross project is preparing a launch of a beta version of its Ruthwell Cross viewer. This is a web-based 3D facsimile of the Ruthwell Cross with annotations suitable for students and the...
View ArticleBeta release of Digital Vercelli Book (Dream of the Rood and Homily 23) now...
The Digital Vercelli Book, one of the partner projects in the Visionary Cross project, is pleased to announce a beta release. This release, which contains the The Dream of the Rood and Homily 23 is...
View ArticleVisionary Cross project joins proposed GRAND Digital Humanities Initiative
The Visionary Cross project has been invited to join the Digital Humanities (DIGHUM) project stream proposed for inclusion in Phase 2 of GRAND (Graphisme, animation et nouveaux médias/Graphics,...
View ArticleVisionary Cross project announces collaboration with Timothy J. Ray on...
The Visionary Cross project has recently begun helping dramaturg Timothy J. Ray on his “Dreaming Rood” Lessons and Carols service. Ray describes the “The Dreaming Rood” as an ecumenical service of...
View ArticleLiving out loud: The Visionary Cross Project and the Public Humanities
A new presentation by Heather Hobma, Daniel Paul O’Donnell, Marco Callieri, Matteo Dellepiane, James Graham, Catherine Karkov, Roberto Rosselli Del Turco. Living out loud: The Visionary Cross Project...
View ArticleUniversity of Lethbridge Tenure Track job: Postcolonial or Modernism, DH...
The Department of English at the University of Lethbridge invites applications for a probationary (tenure-track) position at the Assistant Professor rank to begin 1 July 2014, subject to budgetary...
View ArticleVisionary Cross joins GRAND-NCE
The Visionary Cross project is joining the Graphics, Animation, and New Media National Centre of Excellence (GRAND-NCE). The project is one of twelve Canadian Digital Humanities projects to join the...
View ArticleFan Yan to join the Visionary Cross Project as MITACS Global Link Fellowship
Chinese Undergraduate Student Fan Yan (Eileen) has been accepted by Mitacs and the Visionary Cross Project to work as the project’s first Mitacs Global Link Fellow. Ms. Fan will be joining the project...
View ArticleScreenshots from Unreal reconstruction of the Ruthwell Kirk
Project Co-Investigator James Graham and his research team have just released some demo screenshots from their Unreal-engine reconstruction of the Ruthwell Kirk Here are some highlights:
View ArticleTwo Student Papers Accepted at Joint CSDH/SCHN & ACH Conference 2015
Visionary Cross has two paper acceptances at Joint CSDH/SCHN & ACH Conference 2015 to be held in Ottawa, 1-3 June 2015. These are: Disability: The Last Frontier for DH by Kendra Rawluk and Carissa...
View ArticlePanel on Digital Cultural Heritage accepted at CSDH/SCHN – ACH Joint Conference
Panel on Digital Cultural Heritage (DigiCulthH – a GRAND subgroup) has been accepted at CSDH/SCHN -ACH joint conference to be held in Ottawa, 1 -3 June, 2015. The panel members include: Prof. Daniel...
View ArticleNew edition of the Visionary Cross Presenter released for beta testing
A new version of the Visionary Cross presenter is has just been released for beta testing. The presenter is an interface for navigating and presenting the Visionary Cross project’s scans of the...
View ArticleThe Ruthwell Cross Runes like you’ve never seen them before
Some screenshots from the highest resolution scans of the cross, showing the runes and the Archer panel…
View ArticleThe Visionary Cross Project announces a free beta test of its viewer for the...
You can access the test viewer at the following URL: http://vcg.isti.cnr.it/cross/ About the test We are using this test to gain initial feedback on usability and use cases for the viewer including...
View ArticleMeshlab 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 (the file format used in Unreal) to .ply...
View ArticleA 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. Users can rotate the scene by keyboard and...
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