Tag Archives: John Rylands

Bringing display cases to life

Posted on September 6, 2013 by Matt Ramirez

Have you ever wondered how the objects in display cases get chosen, or the journey they go on to arrive there? Five  Year 6 pupils from Oswald Primary School  have been chosen to guest curate one of the themes in … Continue reading →

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St John Fragment AR content

Posted on October 25, 2012 by Matt Ramirez

AR material relating to the St John Fragment has now been released as part of the SCARLET project in collaboration with Dr. Roberta Mazza. It provides the user an opportunity to surface contextual information about the most famous piece of … Continue reading →

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Dante final AR outputs released

Posted on October 11, 2012 by Matt Ramirez

I am pleased to announce the release of the complete suite of AR outputs related to Dante’s Divine Comedy, which have been developed through the SCARLET project. These can be accessed by downloading the outputs PDF and scanning the QR code … Continue reading →

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SCARLET team are joint second in learning technology awards

Posted on September 13, 2012 by Matt Ramirez

Staff from the SCARLET team have been awarded the joint second prize for the Association for Learning Technologists “Learning Technology of the Year” team award. The award’s overall purpose is to celebrate and reward excellent practice and outstanding achievement in … Continue reading →

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The SCARLET Focus Groups: 2nd and 3rd Year Undergraduates

Posted on May 14, 2012 by frankmanista

On the 3rd of May, Matt Ramirez and I conducted our latest series of focus groups with two different courses, whose delivery will involve the oldest fragment of the Gospel of John, which dates back to the 2nd half of … Continue reading →

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Scarlet Dissemination Workshop

Posted on May 2, 2012 by John Hodgson

John Hodgson, Jo Lambert and Matt Ramirez recently hosted a workshop at the John Rylands Library to demonstrate the Scarlet augmented reality project to archivists and librarians from other institutions in the region (though Alison Cullingford will no doubt wish … Continue reading →

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SCARLET Focus Group

Posted on November 23, 2011 by frankmanista

As part of the evaluation process for the SCARLET Project, I ran a focus group on 16 November 2011 for the students in Dr. Guyda Armstrong’s “Beyond the Text: The Book and Its Body”.  During the hour-long session, I asked … Continue reading →

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Bringing ancient Greek papyri to life through AR

Posted on October 17, 2011 by Matt Ramirez

The Rylands papyri collection is one of the most important of the world, and constitutes an immense occasion for a papyrologist and ancient historian. It is an immense resource for both research and teaching. Of the about 2,000 Greek and … Continue reading →

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