Skills and Background

Based upon the work we had begun with some of the pre-evaluation processes and with working with the academics and librarians, we determined that a certain amount of training was necessary: in the first instance with the academics and librarians who were going to be working with the project directly and then with the students to ensure that they had ample experience with the app prior to actually beginning their work within the Library for their course. As discussed in the relevant blog posts, once the preliminaries of the initiation were complete, we set about putting together various means, including workshops, presentations, and demonstrations to help develop the necessary skills and understanding of the materials and how to access them.

According to Andy Land, Digital Systems Manager for the University of Manchester Library, “It is the ambition of the Scarlet project to pull in a wide range of related digital assets from multiple sources when viewing a particular object. Many of these assets are held within the University of Manchester Library systems and one of the issues for the project to consider is how to enable integration between these systems and the AR browser, ensuring a positive and seamless experience for the user.”