studiolo communis: a co-active working environment for an extended research discourse in the history of art and architecture

In the interdisciplinary research project "studiolo communis", a working environment was developed based on the studiolo of the Renaissance - a room for study and contemplation equipped with works of art, study objects and books - which supports the examination, comparison, evaluation, linking and commenting of media objects and research results.

For this purpose, images from an image database can be integrated - in Paderborn the database easyDB is used for the "Image Archive of the UNESCO Competence Centre". But also other media objects such as text, sound and film recordings can be integrated. Here the metaphor of cooperative knowledge spaces is implemented, where media objects can be created, edited and arranged in a cooperative way (communicative, cooperative and collaborative).

The cooperative working environment is integrated into the infrastructure of the university and has interfaces to technical systems (authentication, communication, data backup, ...) as well as to other research-relevant systems (document and literature management).

The IMT was responsible for the project management, in particular meetings and the final conference were organized. In addition to the basic infrastructure, the IMT operates the Paderborn image database and the collaboration platform SharePoint, which was introduced within the project. In the project, IMT defined and managed the interfaces between the systems.

Project funding: The project "studiolo communis - building a co-active working environment for an extended research discourse in the history of art and architecture in support of the UNESCO Centre of Excellence 'Material and Immaterial Cultural Heritage'" was funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) as part of the programme "Scientific Library Services and Information Systems (LIS)".

Employees at the IMT: Andreas Brennecke, Alexander Strothmann

Other project participants: Prof. Dr. Eva-Maria Seng, Professorship for Material and Immaterial Cultural Heritage UNESCO, Prof. Dr. Reinhard Keil, Professorship "Informatics and Society" at the Heinz Nixdorf Institute

Project leadership:

Prof. Dr. Eva-Maria Seng, Professorship for Material and Immaterial Cultural Heritage UNESCO

Prof. Dr. Reinhard Keil, Professorship „Computer Science and Society" at the Heinz Nixdorf Institute

Dr. Gudrun Oevel, head of the Information and Media Technologies Center (IMT) 

Project management:

Andreas Brennecke

Information and Media Technologies Center (IMT)

Project team:

Doris Hartmann, UNESCO Competence Centre

Carolin Mischer, Chair of Material and Immaterial Cultural Heritage UNESCO

Heiko Nöthen, Information and Media Technologies Center (IMT)

Andreas Oberhoff, Chair of Computer Science and Society

Jonas Schulte, Chair of Computer Science and Society

Alexander Strothmann, Information and Media Technologies Center (IMT)

Funding source: DFG (www.dfg.de)

Programme: Scientific literature supply and information systems (LIS) (www.dfg.de/foerderung/programme/infrastruktur/lis/index.html)

Funding reference number: INST 214/56-1 and OE 499/1-2