MULTIMEDIA
LABORATORY
UNIVERSITY OF CRETE
A brief presentation and our research
activities
The Multimedia Laboratory operates in
the field of information technologies and
communications. It emphasizes on
interactive multimedia, on the world wide
web and on distant learning. It has
designed and developed a number of
multimedia applications addressed to any
level of education whereas in the world
wide web it specializes in creating
internet portals.
With the Administration System of
Historical Content that it has developed it
is also active in the development of
portals with historical, political and
cultural content.
Services
• Internet portals
• DVD Rom
• CD-Rom
• Webpages
• Layout of printed material
Products
• Historical Review System
• Conferences Review System
Recipients of these Services
• Municipalities
• Prefectures
• Regions
• The wider Public Sector
• Schools
• Educational Institutions
• Pedagogic Institutions
• Academic,
technological
researching bodies
• Private institutions
• Museums
and
Indicatory Projects
• „Nutrition and nutritional habits“
2 CD-ROMs - one for junior high
school and one for senior high school
– completed by the relevant printed
guides for pupils and teachers.
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The themes that are dealt with by
these projects are different for each
age group, concerning its approach as
well as the amount of information. It
includes many practical exercises
where the pupil can write down
his/her own habits and evaluate them.
This project has been approved by the
Pedagogic Institute and has been
distributed in schools.
•
“Diagoras and Olympia”
An animated production on CD-Rom
which addresses mainly Greek pupils
age 12-15 which live in foreign
countries or foreign pupils who wish
to learn more about the Greek culture
or to learn the Greek language. The
project’s aim is to maintain, to
cultivate and to promote Greek
language and culture. It deals with
cultural, lingual and historical issues
including many exercises and games.
This project has been approved by the
Pedagogic Institute and has been
distributed in Greek schools abroad.
Multimedia
Laboratory
UNIVERSITY OF CRETE
It was awarded with the
- 2nd prize in the multimedia
competition “Spinalonga Festival
2000”
during
the
EuroMediterranean cultural meeting in
Crete (01 October 2000)
- 1st journalists’ award in the “9 th
Festival of Multimedia Awards
Möbius
2000
(2nd
Greek
participation) in the category of
educational software (4-5 December
2000)
- 3rd prize in the 2nd Pan-Hellenic
Multimedia
and
Internet
Competition “Multimedia” in the
category ”Production companies”
(10-13 December 2000)
•
“Heraklion, a city and its history”
(DVD-Rom)
A multimedia application by which
you can browse the past and the
present of a city with 4.000 years of
history. Your guides are rare
engravings, paintings, old pictures,
original texts, music, audio and
video.
Through a game of exploration,
discovery and communication of
knowledge, where reality walks hand
in hand with the electronic
presentation, aspects of a city are
presented known only to a few.
This project was awarded with the 1st
prize of CULTURE in the 5 th
Multimedia Festival Möbius on 28
February 2005 in Athens and
represented our country in the 13th
International Multimedia Festival
Möbius on the island of Reunion on
22-23 March 2005.
•
The Life and the Work of Nikos
Kazantzakis
An educational / recreational edition
about the life and the work of Nikos
Kazantzakis. An acquaintance with
the amazing personality of Nikos
Kazantzakis and with the troubled
times he lived in, through original
scientific texts and visual material,
rare photographic material and
manuscripts, video and music. The
Liaison Office
Financed to 30% by
national sources and to 70
% by the European
Regional
Development
Fund (ERDF)
Head of the Laboratory
and contact details:
Kyriakos Papadakis
Multimedia Laboratory
University of Crete
Knossos Avenue
GR-71409
Heraklion
Crete
Tel. 2810-393340-45
Fax 2810-393341
URL:http://mmlab.uoc.gr
e-mail:
mmlab@mmlab.uoc.gr
edition is completed by a list of the
work of Nikos Kazantzakis with
information on the writing of his
works, on foreign publications and
translations as well as on their
adaptation to other forms of art. The
material is given in Greek, English,
German and French.
•
Design and development of the
project “Development of a Website
and of Supporting Software”. An
Internet portal in four languages
about
Nikos
Kazantzakis,
presenting various information
about the life and work of the
great Greek litterateur along with
a rich list of his works. The
access to this information is
facilitated by a series of services.
This Internet portal features a
separate unit for the Museum
“Nikos Kazantzakis” in the
village of Myrtia in the
municipality of Kazantzakis.
(http://www.kazantzakis-museum.gr)
•
Design and development of the
project “Electronic Tour in the old
City of Heraklion”. This is the
electronic
presentation
and
demonstration of the cultural and
historical riches of the old city of
Heraklion in a web environment,
based on modern methods of
projection and information with the
purpose to inform the citizen and the
visitor.
•
Development of the Historical
Review System – ISTOPOLIS.
The Multimedia Laboratory has
progressed in the study and
development of the integrated review
system of historical content (data
and metadata) for the support of
projects with a historical and cultural
content.
Through its complete and easy
functions ISTOPOLIS allows the
organizing, the structuring and the
unification of a labyrinth of
information, meanings, historical
files, multimedia material etc.
It reviews and projects on the world
wide web the content through
dynamic user interfaces PHP and
HTML. Its completed form will
operate with the support of the
FLASH technology.
Through ISTOPOLIS the following
projects were realized: the internet
portal of the “Nikos Kazantzakis
Museum”, the historical internet
portal of the Municipality of
Heraklion with the title “Electronic
Tour in the old City of Heraklion”.
•
“Heraklion, a city and its history”
(web)
In this internet portal, which was
realized for the Municipality of
Heraklion, the historical and cultural
wealth of the old city of Heraklion is
presented. Original texts, historical
pictures and videos, historical
records among other things compose
part of the material that is presented.