Digital library in a 3D virtual world: the digital Bleek and Lloyd collection in second life

Authors:
Rizmari Versfeld;Spencer Lee;Edward Fox;Hussein Suleman;Kyle Williams
Affiliations:
Department of Computer Science, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa;Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA;Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA;Department of Computer Science, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa;Department of Computer Science, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
Venue:
ECDL'10 Proceedings of the 14th European conference on Research and advanced technology for digital libraries
Year:
2010

Citing 2
Cited 0

The use of Second Life for distance education

Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges
Virtual DL poster sessions in second life

Proceedings of the 9th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries

Quantified Score

Hi-index	0.00

Visualization

Abstract

This research explores and demonstrates the process of setting up a 3D representation of a typical web-based digital library called 'The Digital Bleek and Lloyd collection (lloydbleekcollection.cs.uct.ac.za)' in the popular 3D virtual world, 'Second Life'. The processes of building, scripting, and evaluation of the 3D exhibit are discussed. The report concludes that SL is a good platform for this kind of cultural representation. At a university level it could be used to showcase and share researchers' work.