The GDUT Maritime Silk Road project (2014–2015) as a case study for VSMM in museum settings in China

摘要

This case study focuses on the Digital Maritime Silk Road as referring to Chinese scholarly publications. The purpose is to allow museum visitors to experience the evolution of the concept of the Maritime Silk Road in China through the use of new technologies. Thus, an interactive visual and dynamic historical GIS (geographic information systems) approach has been created to be applied within a granularity retrieval platform. This project was conducted by an interdisciplinary team from digital media, computer science and history at the Guangdong University of Technology (GDUT) in 2014 and 2015.