Information landscapes for the communication of ancient manuscripts heritage

The MUBIL project involves museums, libraries and ICT academy partners with the aim of developing a consistent methodology enabling the use of Virtual Environments as a metaphor to present manuscripts content through the paradigms of interaction and immersion. This paper presents the results of MUBIL research applied to the case of an ancient travel journal written by the Norwegian scholar Lilienskiold presented under the form of Information Landscape (IL). In ILs information is distributed onto several ideal planes enabling the access to the book content in different ways: digitization of the original pages, transcriptions, 3D animations, explanatory movies, audio narrations, excerpts of text, glossary entries and 3D models, explored with a guided navigation or in a free interaction mode, all concur to the realization of an enriched experience which is expected to become an important aid to the communication of this undiscovered heritage.