Jena4D - A virtual city history book for participation

Project

An existing browser application for mobile devices (https://4dcity.orgExternal link) will be expanded within the project into a participatory knowledge platform for the 4D representation of the entire city centre of Jena. Citizens can compile historical photographs, anecdotes and stories as well as create digital city tours and thus jointly create a public digital 4D history book for tourists, contemporary witnesses and future generations.

Sub-goals are:

1. Using digital applications for cultural institutions:

  • Extension of the 4DCity browser application with a rephotography component

2. Participatory knowledge building and transfer:

  • Cooperative teaching events with schools for the preparation of city history events as digital city tours by pupils for children.
  • A competition aimed at encouraging the citizens of Jena to enter and re-photograph historical images. This competition will be accompanied by contributions from OTZ and TLZ.
  • University courses on the creation and curation of historical information content and the integration of the curated city encyclopaedia.

3. Openly accessible knowledge:

  • Integration as a reference application of the Time Machine software marketplace.
  • The content becomes part of the virtual cultural heritage library Europeana
  • Integration as a module within the Thuringian culture and knowledge portal kulthura.deIntegration als Referenzanwendung des Time‐Machine‐Software‐Marktplatzes

Consortium

  • The Thuringian University and State Library (ThULB) is responsible for the integration of the application into the ThULB infrastructures and the development of interfaces for the systematic matching of metadata with controlled vocabularies and scientific thesauri.
  • The Chair of Digital Humanities (Image/Object) at Friedrich Schiller University Jena (FSU) is in charge of the participatory refotography pipeline as well as the incorporation of citizen contributions.
  • The city of Jena provides image and editorial content from the city encyclopaedia and the city museum as well as the archive of building records and supports dissemination, advertising and contact mediation in the project.
  • The Ostthüringische Zeitung (OTZ) and the Thüringische Landeszeitung (TLZ) accompany the citizens' competition with editorial contributions on the project and results.
  • The Time Machine Organisation (TMO) supports international project communication and dissemination.
  • The EU-S3 Partnership for Virtual and Smart Cultural Tourism (VSCT) supports international outreach.
  • The Network for Digital Humanities and Citizen Science advises and supports the development of participation workflows and the outreach to potential cooperation partners.
  • Südschule Jena is a school partner for the implementation of joint school projects in grades 3 and 4 in the school year 2021/2022.

Kontakt

Ferdinand Maiwald, Dr
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