Sunday, October 2, 2011

Mubil project supported by the National library of Norway

Mubil, a digital laboratory is financed by NTNU university library, the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and the National Library of Norway. The project will experiment by creating a hybrid exhibition space allowing the visitors to interact with archive documents without touching the authentic physical objects. The visitor is allowed to experiment with a 3D digital copy through an augmented board in an immersive virtual environment. The Mubil laboratory was established in June 2011 as an interdisciplinary cooperation between the NTNU University library the Norwegian University of Science and technology, with Letizia Jaccheri professor at the department of Computer Science of the NTNU university and Chiara Evangelista from the Percro laboratory of the University of Santa Anna in Pisa, Italy. Starting in October 2011 the project MUBIL will create a pilot and the information collected through the interaction with the users will be analysed in order to create a laboratory application by the NTNU university library and promote its special archives. We hope to go further than 3D recontructions where the user remains a passive viewer. We aim to find ways in creating an active participation in an immersive environment that stimulates knowledge seeking through a perception-action interaction procedure. A working laboratory will be created in a hybrid environment (physical and immersive) and the experiment has a clear educational objective. That is to  test the learning outcome of the users. The application will also be accessible through the Internet.

Alexandra Angeletaki
Research Librarian at Gunnerus Library, University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway

Collaborators:
Chiara Evangelista, computational engineer, Percro, Scuola Santa Anna, Pisa, Italy
Letizia Jaccherri, Professor of Computer Science, NTNU, Trondheim Norway



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Newton going Digital!



Newtons Principia Mathematica from 1686 is one of the valuable possessions we hold in the Gunnerus library.


This book ended up in Trondheim as a book of the DKNVS collections as one of a kind since the 250 copies that were then printed were very quickly sold out. Library's edition of the Principia Mathematica is probably the very own of Bishop Gunnerus who established DKNVS in 1760.


Before the bishop came to Trondheim and founded the Trondhjemske Company, later called the Royal Norwegian Society affirmation, he sojourned in Halle in the period 1742-1744 and for a longer period then in 1744-1758, in Jena, and one can speculate whether it was under this period in Halle and Jena that he bought this book. When Gunnerus died in 1773 leaving behind him a large debt, his large private library was therefore sold. In the auction catalog it says Gerhard Schøning bought Newton's Principia Mathematica.

The book is considered to be an outstanding scholarly work for the developments in physics and astronomy and the 17th century sciences, and there are hardly any other work in physics, which are similar to that in importance. The work describes the theory that later became known as Newton's laws of motion, which laid the groundwork for classical mechanics and also Newton's universal gravitation theory.


Zoom in the book here

The establishment of the library that is today called Gunnerus library belongs to the history of the DKNVS. The library today has initiated aprogram of digitization of its most valuable books, manuscripts and archives and is developing a open platform where its valuable documents can be accessed by the public. Using "Erez" one can actually browse through the book and zoom inn its pages and thus enjoy all the details as if one was holding the book in his hand.

Service terms and prices

The NTNU Gunnerus Library charges a use fee based on its ownership of the physical materials in its collections.

Photo colection

We have about 400 000 photographs from Trondheim in the early 1900’s until around 1940’s in our collection. We are in process of digitizing the material, and you can search our digital collection on the website “trondheimsbilder”. Here you can search by name, address or location. To order a photo you need to follow the link called “more options and information”, and then a link called “bestill bilde” (order photo) in Norwegian.

In case you wish to publish the photo we charge a use fee of 500 NOK for commercial publications, and 200 NOK for non-commercial publications each time the material is published.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to email us.


Photo services


Prints /analog development

13x18

170,-

18x24

170,-



Digitisation of photos or document scan, price per item:



Low quality


0 – 1 Mb

50,-


High quality


1 - 20 Mb

150,-

21 - 50 Mb

200,-

over 50 Mb

300,-



Shipping and handling:




E-mail

50,- per item

Download

50,- per item

CD

100,- + 50,- per item + postage

Paper

50,- per item + postage