Arts & Culture
Integrating amateur metal detectorists into the network of archaeological knowledge
In the past 30 years amateurs with metal detector have done wonders for archaeology. Some call it the most effective surveying method since the invention of the shovel.
Why TROLLing is the thing to do for linguists
Researchers not only need access to relevant scholarly publications, but also to the data sets and the software used to yield the research results. Take a look at the data repository for linguistics, TROLLing. Warning: linguist humour may occur!
Building expertise for a new era of online artistic collaboration
Two Norwegian universities have launched a joint master programme training musical and artistic collaboration over the Internet, with super-fast connectivity linking two experimental labs, 500 km apart.
Singapore and Sapporo scenic sites come to life via R&E network link
Arts & Culture
Knowledge Exchange
Technology
Internet2 (USA)
JGN (Japan)
SINET (Japan)
SingAREN (Singapore)
TEIN (Asia Pacific)
In February 2018 spectators in Singapore were enchanted by crystal clear video images of the Sapporo Snow Festival in Japan whilst viewers in Japan could remotely take in the beauty of Singapore's iconic Botanic Gardens: long-distance cultural exchange powered by cutting-edge video technology and high-speed R&E network links.
Cross-border concert showcases unique technology for teaching and performance
Arts & Culture
Education
Knowledge Exchange
Other
Technology
BASNET (Belarus)
EaPConnect (Europe's Eastern Partnership countries)
EENet of HITSA
GARR (Italy)
GÉANT (Europe)
GRENA (Georgia)
IIAP NAS RA (Armenia)
‘Music Without Borders’ using LoLA low latency data transmission technology was enjoyed by Ministers and Ambassadors from around Europe and Eastern Partnership (EaP) countries.
Recording history through daily news streams
Enlighten Your Research is a programme that supports researchers from all research disciplines to give a boost to their research. Processing and analysing large amounts of research data and collaboration between researchers play a central role. One of the projects that is supported by Enlighten Your Research is 'Recording history through daily news streams'.
From cultural heritage to particle physics, VC technology makes global collaboration easy in Latin America
Arts & Culture
Education
Technology
CUDI (Mexico)
RAU2 (Uruguay)
RedCLARA (Latin America)
RENATA (Colombia)
REUNA (Chile)
The Anilla Cultural Latinoamérica-Europa in Uruguay, a network of cultural facilities, coproduces online events using second-generation netowrking technologies and promotes both research on new uses of the Internet in cultural production and the exchange of content.
Make your own kind of music with R&E networks
The net:art project is harnessing the power of audio-visual transmission technologies for the performing arts. This is about enabling artists to interact with one another and their audiences, despite the distances that separate them.
American Presidents in an interactive classroom
The President of the United States of America is said to be the most powerful person in the world. To understand past presidencies, you want to get as close as possible to key presidential decisions. You need access to primary sources, and that is exactly what The Presidential Primary Sources Project is doing.
US schools and libraries embrace LOLA
LOLA is an open source, low latency audio and video conferencing technology that enables real-time, simultaneous, live musical performances across long distances. LOLA is emerging as an opportunity for schools and libraries to leverage their advanced high speed connectivity to allow students to greatly expand their musical horizons.
Artists from three countries perform live via video links
A music and dance performance in Copenhagen included live feeds of musicians in London and dancers in Barcelona. Thanks to LOLA technology the synchronised effect was as if they were all physically present on the same stage.
Sharing Shakespeare in sync – and winning awards
Although approx. 2555 km apart, theatre students from The University of Tampere, Finland, and Coventry University, UK, are rehearsing Shakespeare together, sharing a “virtual learning theatre” made possible by powerful videoconferencing equipment and high-speed connectivity.