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Olonkho IS has been designed to meet specific user interests and needs within
its target audience. Researchers will be above all interested in visiting the IS
online library, with complete Olonkho texts, scholarly publications, digitized
audio archives, graphic images, manuscripts of Olonkho and other folklore
pieces, specialized dictionaries, encyclopaedias, and reference books; of primary
importance to them is to be able to spread the results of their research and
to find necessary contacts and links. Museum and archive personnel may find
particularly useful the possibility of creating digital facsimile archives of their
collections and making them available to the public. To students and teaching
staff, Olonkho IS offers an exciting opportunity to create a modern learning
infrastructure. The Olonkho system aims to define the vector of professional
growth and competency development in the academia, stimulating research
among teaching staff and students alike.
Only if united into a single system, information resources could acquire new
qualities (this is what philosophers call the notion of emergence, with emergent
properties defined as effects that are not sums of the effects of each causal
conjunct).
The recitation of an epic is, by its very nature, a multimedia event. Various
elements enter into play here, such as sound (speaking and singing),
visual presentation (mimics, gestures and posturing), and environment
(e.g. chiaroscuro on the auditorium walls, the breath of people in the audience,
their spontaneous reactions, etc).
In cyberspace, audio, video, original texts with translations, synopses, scholarly
commentaries, dictionary entries on epic characters and archaic vocabulary,
photos, graphics, links and footnotes can and should all be presented in a
common hypermedia environment. Put together, these and other information
sources will produce a cumulative effect unattainable if each is used separately.
Olonkho IS will create a common information and communications
environment for various educational, scientific and cultural institutions on the
basis of specific agreements that take into account appropriate technological
requirements, protocol regulations and, crucially, the property and copy rights
of the parties involved.
The system is designed to accumulate information in designated storages
and record all necessary dimensions in databases. Digitized resources can be
accessed through the Internet or an Intranet portal.
The system has several key segments.
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