Published on 12 October 2016
Within the extension project during the first bilateral cooperation, entitled “Provenance Signs Research”, we aimed to prepare twenty microstories about the original book owners. First, we had to pick particular individuals and institutions. The team of historians, including the project historian Marcela Strouhalová and Mirjam Kristensen of the Norwegian partner Stiftelsen Arkivet, made quite detailed probes into history. With respect to this activity we modified the project website by adding the Owners tab, where the completed microstories were made available during September.
The activities within the extension project follow each other. We therefore made a commitment to prepare microstories in a more interesting multimedia form to make them more easily accessible than the original extensive texts. We researched possibilities currently offered by web presentations. We hope the multimedia microstories will inspire those who follow our project to read the complete microstories. The Owners tab includes a Multimedia microstories entry where the microstories will be gradually published. Currently, the first of them - infographics for the Czech Women’s Manufacturing Society – is available there.
In the previous academic year we introduced the project to the students of the Division of Information and Library Studies of the Masaryk University in Brno, within the so-called Experts Block. The principal project implementer, Tomáš Foltýn, introduced the interdisciplinary approach of the project; the historian Marcela Strouhalová presented the current state of the historical research. The students evaluated our lecture as the most interesting one in the whole semester. The lecture had several outputs from the students. Zbyněk Tajovský created the infographics symbolising the cycle of a book in the project; Lukáš Eliáš created inforgraphics epresenting the main goals of and basic information on the project. The infographics by Monika Langerová have already been presented in another article on the website.
Upon this positive experience with the students we initiated further collaboration regarding the creation of the multimedia microstories. In their course dedicated to the presentation of cultural heritage, students shall convert the textual microstories into more attractive multimedia forms as part of their semestral work. The best of them shall receive a financial reward.