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Heritage Key - Culturemondo Taipei
1. Heritage Key -
Experiencing Ancient
Culture
Claus Nehmzow
Alcus International Ltd.
4th Culturemondo Digital Culture
and Heritage Roundtable
Taipei, Taiwan
December 10th to 12th 2008
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2. Agenda
• Consumer demand for ancient culture
• Current offerings and their limitations
• An immersive, consumer-centric approach to
experiencing ancient cultures
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3. Global demand for Ancient World
experiences is massive
Source: Unesco, UK TV Survey, other US/UK stats
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4. Current offerings are mostly museum/
media - not consumer/interest centric
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5. Visiting original exhibitions and locations:
highlights but also limited
• Visiting real locations might
suffer might shrink in a
recession
• Real locations have limits of
number of visitors before
suffering irreparable damage
• Most popular exhibitions are
crowded, you can’t get close
to the artefacts
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6. Heritage Key: high quality ancient world
experience - enhanced by community
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7. Working with many culture experts and
institutions
• Egypt:
• leading antiquities expert
• Nigel Hetherington, Owner, Past Preservers, Egypt
• Dr Kent Weeks, American University of Cairo, Director Theban Mapping
Project, discovered KV 5
• China:
• X'ian Museum of Teracotta Horses and Warriors
• Prof Wang Tao, Chair of SOAS, University of London
• Janice Lee, PHd student SOAS and staff member X'ian Museum
• Others
• Museums:Robert Knox, ex Keeper (30 years) of SE Asia Dept, British
Museum
• Ashley Brown, CEO, Brown Reference Group. Content provider.
• Sandro Vannini, Owner, Studio Vannini Photos, Italy
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8. Focus on quality: best content, museums,
collections, heritage sites, and historians
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10. Unique: a 3D immersive time machine -
“as is” and “as was”
virtual
original
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11. Multiple visitors can share a virtual visit
to the egyptian tombs, “as they were”
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12. The high quality cultural artefacts can
contain further embedded multi-media
• Original high
quality
photography
• Work with site
owners and
archaeologists
• Real world
replication /
virtual experience
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