Virtual Gallery Research Articles

First catch your student: issues in qualitative evaluation

The paper aims to present some points for discussion around issues in qualitative evaluation to do with access to sites and individuals, and relationships between the researcher/evaluator and participants. It is based on evidence from three projects in which the authors are, or have recently been, involved: JUBILEE (about monitoring and evaluating user behaviour in information seeking), EASE‐IT (about the encouragement of innovative teaching in engineering), and Virtual Gallery (a small scale local case study of a one semester option on a history of art course). The projects have encountered similar problems in relation to the collection of first hand qualitative data, and have relevance for the whole area of performance measurement in library and information studies, which is increasingly needing to also collect qualitative data as part of the evaluation of both projects and services.

Knowledge Elicitation and Semantic Representation for the Heterogeneous Web

This paper presents methods and principles for knowledge elicitation and semantics definitions for images and text, respectively, and furthermore introduces a semantic representation scheme that fuses the semantic information extracted from image and text to facilitate intelligent indexing and retrieval for multimedia collection as well as media transformation through their semantic meanings. The method can be deployed for WWW applications such as telemedicine or virtual gallery.

Designing a virtual gallery of contemporary jewellery: the realities of the virtual

The Virtual gallery of contemporary jewellery CD-Rom (VGCJ) is a series of curated exhibitions, contributing to, and arising from academic papers on key themes about cutting-edge design, trends, and innovations in jewellery. This paper records the development of the conceptual design of the gallery. It tells the story, not of the design process, but of the key design decisions, and the theoretical and practical considerations behind them, that transformed the initial concept into the reality of a final product. The project looked at the potential of new technology to approximate presentation and display, and one of the driving issues in the design was the primacy and authenticity of the object. By focussing on the issues relating to museums and museum display theory the project arrived at a solution that was shaped by these issues, rather than being driven by the technology. The final design represents a synergy between the salient features of a museum and gallery visit, an academic print publication, and a museum catalogue.

Virtual Gallery

Virtual Gallery Photographs are by Christine Chin, a student in the MFA program in Photography at Purdue University. Click for larger view View full resolution Click for larger view View full resolution Click for larger view View full resolution Click for larger view View full resolution Click for larger view View full resolution Click for larger view View full resolution Click for larger view View full resolution Click for larger view View full resolution Click for larger view View full resolution Click for larger view View full resolution Copyright © 2001 The Johns Hopkins University Press

Virtual Gallery

Virtual Gallery Photographs are by Christine Chin, a student in the MFA program in Photography at Purdue University. Click for larger view View full resolution Click for larger view View full resolution Click for larger view View full resolution Click for larger view View full resolution Click for larger view View full resolution Click for larger view View full resolution Click for larger view View full resolution Click for larger view View full resolution Click for larger view View full resolution Click for larger view View full resolution Copyright © 2001 The Johns Hopkins University Press

AN INTERACTIVE GALLERY ON THE INTERNET: "SURFACES BEYOND THE THIRD DIMENSION"

Originally developed as an exhibition for the Providence Art Clubs' Dodge Gallery in March of 1996, Surface Beyond the Third Dimension continues its existence today as a virtual experience on the internet. Here, the authors take you on a tour of the exhibit and describe both the artwork and the mathematics underlying the images, whose subjects range from projections of spheres and tori in four-space, to images of complex functions, to views of the Klein bottle. Along the way, the authors introduce some of the issues that arise from this dual presentation approach, and point out some of the enhancements available in the virtual gallery that are not possible in the physical one.

Virtual resource development in the glycosciences

The development of Internet-based virtual resources is a relatively new area of scientific and technical activity that is currently undergoing rapid expansion. Major factors fuelling recent growth include the emergence of multimedia capabilities through the rapid evolution of the World Wide Web, the reduction in cost of high quality personal computers and graphics workstations and the provision of mass-marketed provider services. Prior to 1995 the presence of Internet resources in the glycosciences was virtually non-existent. Existing scientific knowledge was primarily made available on the Net through the provision of databases from gopher and ftp sites. A particular example in the glycosciences is the Carbbank database of biological carbohydrate sequences. We will describe here our efforts in 1994-95 in establishing The Glycoscience Network (TGN, http:@ bellatrix.pcl.ox.ac.uk/TGN/). These activities included the establishment of a newsgroup, mailing lists, Web resources and the running of the First Electronic Glycoscience Conference (EGC-1, http:@bellatrix.pcl.ox.ac.uk/egc/). EGC-1 included many novel initiatives in the glycosciences including electronic posters and papers, a Virtual Conference Centre, a Web-based hyperglossary, Virtual Trade and Employment Centres, refereed electronic publishing, and the creation of a Virtual Reality Gallery. We would like to look towards the near future and discuss several initiatives in virtual resource creation that we believe will have significant scientific impact on the glycosciences including the development of bioinformatics-based servers, sophisticated interactive databases, and videoconferencing. Furthermore, we cherish the belief that these resources will foster international scientific collaboration and progress of an extent never previously possible. Finally, we indulge in speculation and make some suggestions on the form and long-term impact of Glycoscience Virtual Resources. We predict that their development may completely reconstruct the scientific environment that we work in as scientists and we reflect on the probable benefits and pitfalls to be encountered.

Virtual Gallery

Virtual Gallery Emoretta Yang (bio) Click for larger view View full resolution Figure 1. Click for larger view View full resolution Figure 2. Click for larger view View full resolution Figure 3. Click for larger view View full resolution Figure 4. Click for larger view View full resolution Figure 5. Click for larger view View full resolution Figure 6. Click for larger view View full resolution Figure 7. Click for larger view View full resolution Figure 8. Emoretta Yang Photographs by Emoretta Yang. She lives in Ithaca, New York. Copyright © 1996 The Johns Hopkins University Press