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State Library of Victoria
State Library of Victoria brings Ned Kelly to life
The State Library of Victoria brought Ned Kelly to life with dazzling 3D animations and other multimedia presentations using advanced media distribution software and display technologies from Fujitsu Australia.
The presentations were featured at the Library's 'Kelly Culture: reconstructing Ned Kelly' exhibition, which ran from 28 February to 25 May, 2003. The exhibition attracted more than 5000 visitors in its first three days of opening.
The centrepiece of the multimedia display was a 3D model of the famous bushranger's armour created by Melbourne firm Metraform. The model was shown on a 50in Fujitsu plasma screen, hung vertically in portrait mode. The presentation ran for six minutes at a time, letting visitors see the suit from every angle and learn how it was made.
Another screen showed a 70-minute film about Ned Kelly. Two multimedia kiosks featured interviews with Booker-prize winning author Peter Carey, a video clip of 'Our Sunshine' by singer Paul Kelly and other material relating to Kelly, such as TV ads and the opening ceremony of the Sydney Olympics. A touch-screen kiosk contained a jukebox full of Ned Kelly-related songs.
Driving the displays was TELentice, a powerful software application developed in Australia by Fujitsu. This system provided the Library with greatly increased flexibility and control over sophisticated multimedia content.
"With TELentice we can program and schedule all multimedia content in advance and easily make changes to content items such as film credits," explained Ms Edwina Portelli, Exhibitions Manager, State Library of Victoria. "Previously all our multimedia displays were standalone and we'd have to set them up to present a continuous block of material."
The flexibility to control display schedules and alter presentation content greatly improved the Library's ability to support events that occured outside normal exhibition hours, such as school group tours, corporate hospitality events and even rock concerts.
According to Ian Patterson, Technology Services Manager at the State Library of Victoria, the institution is keen to extend its use of TELentice beyond the current exhibition initiative.
"We want to be able to chop and change multimedia content centrally, and we want to be able to manage associated display devices centrally," he said. "We also want to explore the use of the system for all our digital signage and the distribution of messages across the library as a whole."
