Non-linear Digital Storytelling for the Battleship "G. Averof"

Overview

Non-linear Digital Storytelling for the Battleship "G. Averof" is an interdisciplinary research project with Harokopio University, Athens, starting in 2009 within the IKYDA program. The IKYDA program is an integrated action program between German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the Greek State Scholarship Foundation (I.K.Y) since 2000 to promote academic research cooperation between German researchers and Greek researchers.

The battleship "G. Averof" was a legendary warship of the Greek fleet during the first half of the 20th century with an active history in three wars (Balkans, World War I and II). "G. Averoff" is the world's only surviving heavily armoured cruiser of the early 20th century. Today it is a museum operated by the Greek Navy. With the permission of the Hellenic Navy, together with the Department of Geography at Harokopio University of Athens in cooperation with the Museum Battleship "G. Averof", cross-media research is to be conducted on large museum archives all around the Battleship "G. Averof".

This research project aims at the promotion and enrichment of the museum archives for cultural heritage management. We seek to share knowledge and train new researchers by research on Advanced Storytelling Platforms and services for the Battleship "G. Averof", with state-of-the-art multimedia repositories for the museum archives. It provides communities more opportunities to create, access, share, and even reuse the large valuable multimedia collection about the Battleship “G. Averof” with the Web 2.0 storytelling technologies. It will contribute to advanced research on social software, storytelling, multimedia metadata, GIS, and cultural heritage management together with the project Virtual Campfire etc.

Research Topics

• Storytelling paradigms, design and realization: mobile storytelling, non-linear storytelling, etc.
• Social software and Web 2.0, and community information systems for cultural heritage management
• Advanced GIS
• Metadata standards based multimedia adaptation and retrieval
• Cross media and multimedia data management

Publications

2011

• Ralf Klamma, Yiwei Cao

  Non-linear Digital Storytelling for the Battleship “G. Averof”

  Published in ERCIM News Speical Issues on ICT for Cultural Heritage, Volume 86, July 2011i

• Yiwei Cao, Ralf Klamma, Matthias Jarke

  The Hero's Journey - Template-Based Storytelling for Ubiquitous Multimedia Management

  Published in Special Issue on Journal of Multimedia (JMM): Advances in Interactive Media Technologies, Vol. 6, No. 2, 2011, pp. 156-169, Academy Publisher.

2010

• Haroula Papadaki, Eleni Gadolou, Emmanuel Stefanakis, Georgios Kritikos, Yiwei Cao, Anna Hannemann, Dejan Kovachev, Ralf Klamma

  The role of CMS in the education of GIS using storytelling

  Published in Seventh European GIS Education Seminar (EUGISES 2010), September 9 - 12, 2010, Serres Greece.

• Eleni Gadolou, Haroula Papadaki, Emmanuel Stefanakis, Georgios Kritikos, Yiwei Cao, Anna Hannemann, Ralf Klamma, Dejan Kovachev

  Storytelling, Spatial Standards and Cultural Heritage Management

  Published in (short paper), Marco Painho, Maribel Yasmina Santos and Hardy Pundt (eds.): Proceedings of 13th AGILE International Conference on Geographic Information Science: Geospatial Thinking, Guimaraes, Portugal, May 10-14, 2010