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ICINEMA – PUTTING THE WOW IN
BIODIVERSITY EDUCATION AND OUTREACH
Paul Flemons
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Importance of Education and Outreach to TDWG
Standards and biodiversity informatics – simply a means to an end
that end could be termed as being “conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity”
A key component in striving to achieve that end game is education of and outreach to the broader community
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Opportunity International Year of Biodiversity 2010
Education and outreach
○ Not TDWGs direct role BUTMany of us represent biodiversity institutions whose
roles involve education and outreach
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Opportunity
International Year of Biodiversity 2010Education and outreach
○ We need something with the WOW factor that captures the attention of a broad community and communicates two key simple messages
The wonder of biodiversity in its own right
The importance of biodiversity to humanity
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How do we do this?
Combine
Museums – ideal venues for reaching a receptive audience○ school children and travellers
Exciting visualisation technology - to engage and enthuse the audience
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What?
Icinema is a 360 degree cinema experience
Two installation sizesAVIE - Advanced Visualisation and
Interaction Environment○ 360 degree stereoscopic immersive
interactive visualisation environment with motion and shape tracking systems and a multi-channel audio system.
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What?
iDome○ a cost-effective and compact immersive
visualisation environment for panoramic and spherical representations, video and/or computer generated.
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What?
Two modes3d biodiversity explorerImmersive habitat
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What?
Two modes3d biodiversity explorerImmersive habitat
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Whats the plan? Phase 1
Secure funding and content for a 3 month exhibition at the Australian Museum – May – August 2010
Phase 2 Attract further funding to extend to a travelling exhibition for a
number of Australian Museums – including the AVIE and iDome delivery platforms
Phase 3 Find suitable partners internationally to deliver the content to
Museums in USA, Europe and hopefully elsewhere. Focused on 2010
Phase 4 Extend the concept to permanent travelling installations in
USA , Europe, Australia and ???. Changing content as desired.
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Whats the plan? Phase 1
Secure funding and content for a 3 month exhibition at the Australian Museum – May – August 2010
Phase 2 Attract further funding to extend to a travelling exhibition for a
number of Australian Museums – including the AVIE and iDome delivery platforms
Phase 3 Find suitable partners internationally to deliver the content to
Museums in USA, Europe and hopefully elsewhere. Focused on 2010
Phase 4 Extend the concept to permanent travelling installations in
USA , Europe, Australia and ???. Changing content as desired.
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Whats the plan? Phase 1
Secure funding and content for a 3 month exhibition at the Australian Museum – May – August 2010
Phase 2 Attract further funding to extend to a travelling exhibition for a
number of Australian Museums – including the AVIE and iDome delivery platforms
Phase 3 Find suitable partners internationally to deliver the content to
Museums in USA, Europe and hopefully elsewhere. Focused on 2010
Phase 4 Extend the concept to permanent travelling installations in
USA , Europe, Australia and ???. Changing content as desired.
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Whats the plan? Phase 1
Secure funding and content for a 3 month exhibition at the Australian Museum – May – August 2010
Phase 2 Attract further funding to extend to a travelling exhibition for a
number of Australian Museums – including the AVIE and iDome delivery platforms
Phase 3 Find suitable partners internationally to deliver the content to
Museums in USA, Europe and hopefully elsewhere. Focused on 2010
Phase 4 Extend the concept to permanent travelling installations in
USA , Europe, Australia and ???. Changing content as desired.
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Whats the plan?
Progress Currently in negotiation with Earthwatch,
ALA, Federal Govt education sector and other Australian Museums. Cautiously optimistic that we will achieve Phases 1&2.
To achieve Phases 3 & 4 will require significant international partners
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Challenges
Timeframe is very short – but doable Technology is stableInstallation infrastructure is available
Funding – its a relatively expensive undertaking so we need to attract significant funding sources
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Challenges
Content T-Visionarium
○ Require 50000 imagesTagged with for eg
- Names – common and scientific (all levels of heirarchy)
- Conservation Status- Ecosystem role or functional group- other species specific tags
○ 2500 video clips (optional)
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Challenges
Content Immersive habitat
○ Multiple habitats each habitat
- 360 degree image or video- Embedded content
• Images• Videos• Maps• Audio
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What is needed to make it happen?
Content providersEOL Flickr Group.....
International PartnersMuseums
○ Exhibition locations○ Financial partners
Corporate sponsors
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