The Virtual Library / EUN WP 12 Project

Project Leader at Tecfa: Daniel Peraya
Technical Project Coordinator: Daniel Schneider
Participants from related Euro Projects: Allison Piguet, Fabrice Joye
Participants of TECFA's Campus project: Patrick Jermann, Silvère Martin-Michiellot, David Ott and others. (We plan to use the this project's technology for our own site too)

You can read an official document intitled "Projet EUN-Schoolnet, Document de référence WP 12, PARTICIPATION SUISSE (TEFCA) AU CONSORTIUM ET AU PROJET EUN-Schoolnet, (Workpackage 12)". Most of it is in English. Note that a lot of questions (in particular TECFA's contribution) are to be precised. (The document was grabbed in MS Word Format, imported into FrameMaker and saved as HTML, so it's ugly).

ALSO note that Tecfa did not participate in the writing of this proposal, we came in late and just carved out our contribution (develop a multi-user server). ALL that is officially stated about our role is that "TECFA will participate in the development of the 3D interface for the virtual library and more generally look into 3D multi-userspaces". Note that we want to integrate this work with our other work in that domain, e.g. our virtual campus project

We did have a meeting with the Project Leaders from the Biblioteca di Documentazione Pedagogica (BDP) and it was agreed that Tecfa would build a multi-user VRML-based world able to represent data from a virtual library. Primary goals identified are:

• Develop/master a technology that can be used in real classrooms (within pilot schools that have modern PC's)
• Build a world that ties into the BDP virtual library
• It was also agreed that Tecfa will use the same technology in it's internal Virtual Campus project and in future Swiss Virtual Campus projects

Details about how we coordinate work done at Tecfa with the rest of the WP 12 are to be specified. So bascially, the project is still quite open. All we have for now is the idea that we will build an operational multi-user 3D space that ties into information (e.g. a database).

Pointers

EUN/SchoolNet

• TECFA's EUN-Schoolnet Project page
• European Schoolnet Project (I don't know where to find official on-line information about the WPs TECFA is involved in)
• http://www.bdp.it/ (Biblioteca di Documentazione Pedagogica). The WP 12 Project Leader's site

At Tecfa

• TECFA's VRML resources
• VRML projects at Tecfa (needs some updating regarding our new Virtual Campus project)
• VRML study/test for TECFA's Virtual Campus (old version, somebody should update this !)