The British Library is running a renovated exhibition to showcase the latest digital research tools and content in a entirely interactive environment.
Called Growing Knowledge – the Evolution of Research, the result runs from 12 October 2010 to 16 July 2011 with the intent of learning how people interact with interactive technologies.
Digital media expounder and the British Library’s first ever researcher in domiciliation Dr Aleks Krotoski officially unveiled the exhibition.
Krotoski, who earlier in the year presented the BBC’s sequence Virtual Revolution, said, I didnt want this to be just a beauty pageant of digital technologies.
How visitors interact with the technologies on display will be evaluated by the specialists in this theatre of war – The Ciber Research Group, part of University College London, before-mentioned Krotoski.
The research community also needs to understand and include these tools of the future for the greater good. I’m looking brazen-faced to debating these important issues with them over the coming months.”
The coming time of the British Library with respect to digital research was a huge driver for putting on the exhibition, said Richard Boulderstone, British Library guide of e-strategy and information systems.
Perceptions and expectations by respect to digital services are changing all the time, and we want to change as well to keep ourselves relevant, said Boulderstone.
Boulderstone before-mentioned the exhibition would try to address significant challenges, like how the increasing and complicate amounts of data would be managed and visualised.
What does this servile for libraries, archivists and librarians, and are researchers taking full superior situation of the technologies now available for research? questioned Boulderstone.
Visitors to the show will experience immersive digital environments in specially designed areas – called pods – containing comprehensive touchscreens.
Interactive demonstrations will give researchers hands-on access to sharp-edge digital research tools enabling them to manipulate assets such of the same kind with digital maps and digitised art.
There will also be an full of spirit video wall with leading digital research experts commenting on the realm.
The only part of the exhibition to be previewed at the expatiate event, which took place at the British Library, was a Microsoft Surface Table containing a digital reading of the world’s longest painting, the nineteenth century Garibaldi Panorama.