Project facts
Duration:
2015-06-01 -
2018-05-31
Project coordinator: Utrecht University
Project consortium: University of Exeter (UK); University of Antwerp (Belgium); Universitat de Girona (Spain); University of Salamanca (Spain)
Funding bodies:
JPI CH
Subject areas:
History, Tangible Heritage, Intangible Heritage, Digital Heritage, Archives, Libraries, Objects, Materials, Collections, Conservation, Technologies/ scientific processes, Methods/procedures, Heritage values & identity, Heritage Management
Budget: 609.540.20€
Presentation
This project addresses the sustainable preservation of this massive, untapped heritage resource and will provide guidelines for the (digital) documentation of lantern slides.
EUROMAGIC promotes sustainable use and management of lantern slides by:
- Creating knowledge about lantern slides through researching contexts in which they were used.
- Exploring the needs of stakeholders for access and re-use.
- Providing innovative examples of creative re-use.
- Examining ways for people to enhance their knowledge about lantern slides and so connect to their shared European history of learning.
- Developing and implementing standard working procedures on a European level for documentation, preservation, and digitization.
The research team will, therefore generate and disseminate knowledge concerning lantern slides as a pan-European aspect of cultural heritage.
Across 4 case studies, the project investigates the use of lantern slides in disseminating knowledge about European countries; in the practices of learned societies and educational institutions; in popular venues; and will also investigate methods for classifying the repertoire of these shows.
Impacts & Results
- EUROMAGIC proposes to deliver research-based knowledge and expertise directly to a selection of these stakeholders, enabling them to better understand these resources and to make the best use of them on behalf of their users.
- It will do so by investigating both the tangible nature of these collections and intangible aspects of lantern slide heritage and by generating digital artefacts in order to improve access and to generate innovative examples of re-use.
- The project will immediately narrow the gap between cultural heritage research currently being conducted concerning magic lantern materials and practices for the assessment, management, and protection of these remarkable artefacts across the European heritage sector.
- These activities are designed to demonstrate the potential heritage value of all lantern slide collections which, we contend, have the potential to connect national and regional museums, libraries, and archives to new and international audiences.
- In developing a European standard for description and cataloguing of lantern slide artefacts, the project will develop a template for collection management.
- To create knowledge about the relevance of latter slides as tangible European heritage.