Serenate Workshop: Cultures, Anglophones, and Information Technologies at Paris-Sorbonne

1. Cultures Anglophones et Technologies de l’Information (CATI)Université Paris-Sorbonne Paris IV Liliane Gallet-Blanchard Marie-Madeleine Martinet Serenate Workshop, Montpellier

2. Humanities end-users Research and teaching Serenate Workshop, Montpellier

3. Broadband networks needed for: • Authoring and delivering multimedia resources • sound and video files • virtual reality projects • Access to databases • full-text databases • image databases • Networking and collaborative projects • distance education • international cooperation • European ‘IST’ (Information Society Technologies) Serenate Workshop, Montpellier

4. Authoring and delivering multimedia resources • Multimedia effects • Example : Georgian Cities CD-ROM  with broadband networks, it might be available over the academic network as well Serenate Workshop, Montpellier

5. Authoring and delivering multimedia resources • Image, music, animation, pop-ups, video, editable fields • Need for rapid response time Serenate Workshop, Montpellier

6. Authoring and delivering multimedia resources • Image, music, animation, pop-ups, video, editable fields • Need for rapid response time Serenate Workshop, Montpellier

7. Authoring and delivering multimedia resources • Image, music, animation, pop-ups, video, editable fields Need for rapid response time Serenate Workshop, Montpellier

8. Authoring and delivering multimedia resources • Virtual reality projects • fast real-time computing Serenate Workshop, Montpellier

9. Authoring and delivering multimedia resources • Virtual Sorbonne project: Record of online exchanges between Paris-Sorbonne and US lab Serenate Workshop, Montpellier

10. Authoring and delivering multimedia resources • Example : downloading a 150 Mb file by ftp from Chicago for the ‘Virtual Sorbonne ’ project took an hour and a half • though it was at a low-traffic hour in France • no compression • was not faster than with a 56 K modem • and all this for 2 or 3 minutes of VR activity Serenate Workshop, Montpellier

11. Authoring and delivering multimedia resources • Virtual reality projects fast real-time computing Virtual « Jazz Age Montmartre » Serenate Workshop, Montpellier

12. Access to databases • Subscription to full-text databases with powerful search facilities (combined searches) Fast access across networks needed Serenate Workshop, Montpellier

13. Access to databases • Image databases • Fast load-time needed Serenate Workshop, Montpellier

14. Networking and collaborative projects • Distance education & training for research • Online course material and resources • Virtual libraries • Network facilitating use of platform allowing interactivity Serenate Workshop, Montpellier

15. Networking and collaborative projects • Distance education & training for research • Online course material and resources • with interactivity • Network facilitating use of platform allowing interactivity Serenate Workshop, Montpellier

16. Networking and collaborative projects • International cooperation: • video-and webcam conferencing • joint projects • high-speed connectivity needed -image, sound, real time Serenate Workshop, Montpellier

17. Networking and collaborative projects • International cooperation: • videoconferencing • joint projects • high-speed connectivity needed - image, sound, real time Timeline of joint international VR project showing contribution of participants: Missouri University/Illinois/Paris-Sorbonne Paris IV. (exchange of documents through Internet) Serenate Workshop, Montpellier

18. Networking and collaborative projects • At European level : IST networks of comparable capacity needed Serenate Workshop, Montpellier

19. Networking and collaborative projects • European postgraduate programme designed to create the first generation of trainers for new professions in the humanities computing field (CHiME network) networks of comparable capacity needed Serenate Workshop, Montpellier

20. Research and teaching • Spinout from research to teaching • Multimedia material created as a research project is used as teaching resource (hypermedia skills) • Conferences with presentations of software for researchers are also part of students’ curriculum (information-gathering reports): Chapelle de la Sorbonne, presentations on computer models, department of Architecture, Bath.  These resources might be networked Serenate Workshop, Montpellier

21. Research and teaching • From teaching to research : institutional support • Graduate schools : increased role of training in information skills • Academic networks for development of information skills: ‘Campus numérique: Réseaux.doc’, Paris-Sorbonne project leader  Networking the resources of 13 European universities Serenate Workshop, Montpellier

22. Research and teaching • From teaching to research: curriculum development • Introduction of search strategies as part of students ’ curriculum • undergraduate ‘methodology’ courses • ‘information skills’ for graduates • Humanities computing skills will be part of the European degree structure at each level  IT facilities including broadband networks will be necessary in all subject areas Serenate Workshop, Montpellier

23. Cultures Anglophones et Technologies de l’Information (CATI)Université Paris-Sorbonne Paris IV • Contact us: Liliane.Gallet@wanadoo.fr Marie-Madeleine.Martinet@paris4.sorbonne.fr Serenate Workshop, Montpellier