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The project focuses on design of narratives for mediation of cultural historical knowledge in digital environments. The project focuses especially on how the creation of narratives can draw on the resources in museums research databases and national cultural historical archives.

These archives stores digital content like photographies and videorecordings, that normally documents the research process (the exchavation or the reconstruction of items) related to the museums artifacts. Digital media makes it possible to use this content to supply the mediation of the object, and by that mediating the process of creating cultural-historical knowledge in suppliance to the results. This makes a change for museums praxis. Traditionally cultural historical knowledge is mediated by presenting the object and telling where it was found and what it was used for. Digital material makes it possible to mediate how it was found and how it was analysed and reconstructed. In this way digital media makes it possible to mediate cultural historical knowledge as an interpretation and translationprocess, where the object is a result of the researchers understanding as well as a historical item.

Special focus is put on analysing different narrative models and their relevance to the design of interactive stories based on content in archives. The choise of narrative modell is related to characters of the content - and characters of the media used to mediate in museums or exhibitions . Especially the project studies the frames of webbased and mobile media for mediation of interpretation of cultural historical.

The designconcept is used to discusss the principles, methods and basis of thinking that is used to produce stories based on different narrative models, types of digital content, link to databases, annotationsystems etc.

Thee project is especially relevant for museumsresearch and for discussions of the role of ICT for changes of knowledgepractises in the cultural historical field. ICT does not only change the possibilities for museums mediation - but also museums conceptuallisation of what kind of knowledges they will mediate.

The project is a postdoc project, lead by dr. polit Dagny Stuedahl, financed by the strategic university programme CMC (Competence and media Convergence) in the period 2004 - 2007.