Qulto | Projects

Jurnalul – AR application

Posted on: November 11th, 2017 by akovacstapai

What was it like to be a high-school student in the town of Sibiu, Romania, more than a century ago? The latest Qulto project invites you to a genuine time-travel, by browsing a the diary of a writer who was a teenager in 1885. Users can read the whole text or chapters in the modern form of an e-pub, they can see the original diary pages digitized by the library or listen to an actor reading the diary. Original drawings inspired by the content of the diary illustrate the pages of the virtual book.

The library promotes the web app by sending it to other libraries postcards that tell stories, thanks to the augmented reality developed for them and free to download for Android and iOS users. A project imagined by Brașov County Library, Romania, and brought to life by Qulto.

Magyar Művészeti Akadémia

Posted on: October 7th, 2017 by akovacstapai

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Within the framework of the project, we are working on the development of a portal functionally cooperating with the Huntéka library system operating in the library of MMA, which presents the members of MMA and their work. The site publishes a short biography of the creators, offers a selection of their works representing their creative work, lists their awards, exhibitions and offers bibliographic references to their work. It also makes related content, reports and videos available on the official MMA website.

The National Archives of Hungary

Posted on: September 11th, 2017 by akovacstapai

The National Archives of Hungary, within the frameworks of the project entitled ’Civil administration workflow improvement, application design, development and implementation’ with KÖFOP-1.0.0-VEKOP-15-2016-0001 ID, provides direct access to archival documents for state offices and governmental institutions.

The institution signed an agreement with T-Systems Hungary for the development of its electronic archive, in which Monguz Ltd. was also invited to participate as subcontractor. Our tasks includes the development of the archive registration system (LNYR), developing a modern, user-friendly and intuitive export/import module for the Swiss scopeArchive software, preparing new interfaces, and development of additional research functions and interfaces. The project is to be closed in 2018.

MyMuseuMap

Posted on: July 23rd, 2017 by akovacstapai

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MuseuMap museum aggregator portal has been renewed recently. In addition to the new design, the updated version opens a window for social media, user-friendly and entertaining web 2.0 functions. There is a new MyMuseumap page on the portal, where visitors can collect the pictures they like or find important into an own gallery. Users can browse public galleries compiled by others and can even download them for a presentation. Browsing in the colourful collection can be started from a personalised work of art. The associative search is helped by the records’ subject-headings, which lead the users to similar artifacts.

Qulto Education

Posted on: February 10th, 2017 by akovacstapai

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Qulto Education, which belongs to our Qulto portfolio, is a software component supporting the creation and usage of interactive education packages. This software primarily provides assistance to teachers and lecturers working in the public education sector and public collection institutions, though it is effectively applicable in other fields, as well. The module gives the opportunity of learning in a fun way within the framework of school, library, and museum activities. Consequently, lecturers can use the recently popular electronic devices preferred by their students to raise interest in a given subject through combining online and offline education materials.

We have aimed at creating a digital education tool which, besides mediating interactive knowledge and culture, inspires the youth to visit and discover public collections. It is also designed to connect public collection items and cultural services to further services, especially to public education.

The software is easy to use: teachers and lecturers working with Qulto Education can create tasks within education packages. Such education materials can be built up from public collection data, internal and external sources, texts and media contents. These tasks – quiz, timeline, word search, puzzle, slideshow – which can also be linked enable covering a certain topic or subject – let it be the history of a castle, the ballads of János Arany or some questions related to natural sciences – by involving students in interactive tasks.

Academy of Music in Łódź, Charles Poznański Palace

Posted on: September 23rd, 2016 by akovacstapai

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The primary goal of creating the game is to present the renovated and restored interiors of Charles Poznański Palace, which is owned by the Academy of Music in Łódź. The game was created by using one of today’s leading game engines, which exploits the capacity of the present graphic hardwares, but at the same time it enables running the application on older hardwares thus targeting the widest possible audience. Keeping this in the main focus, the game is available on several desktop platforms, including MacOS X, and has been translated into English, Polish and Norwegian.

3D model scanning technology has been used in the course of the work. Our company cooperated with a Polish firm, ArchiTube,which was responsible for scanning the building and specific rooms, where the main plot of the game takes place. Source images have been provided in excellent quality in order to guarantee improved user experience.

The main mission of the game is to find Grażyna Bacewicz’s missing sheet music hidden somewhere in the palace. Players have the opportunity to move around the place freely, enjoy and admire the beautiful interior of the palace and its rooms, discover and get to know the history of the place and people. During the journey you can find some quizzes and puzzles awaiting to be solved. In each room a treble clef is waiting for you with a question. After giving a correct answer, you can discover the place further, and get closer and closer to finding the sheet. The game also offers some adventures – you can meet a good ghost, who warns you about a bad ghost prowling in the palace, and with whom you have to quiz fight at the end of the game. After giving five correct answers, you get a key, which opens the place with the hidden sheet music.

Könyvtársas

Posted on: August 10th, 2016 by akovacstapai

On occasion of the Library Sunday, the Méliusz Juhász Péter County Library organised an engaging game for its visitors, called ’Könyvtársas’. This activity, besides traditional printed books, involved 21st century technologies as well, such as mobile applications and QR codes. First, the participating groups had to investigate a mysterious murder while wandering among the bookshelves, then followed a contest in the form of an ’author-reader meeting’. The third part having the topic of Mars – based on the book entitled The Martian – had the challenge to escape from the planet (symbolised by the readers’ room on the 2nd floor) while trying to do their best both in individual and team tasks. In the activities compiled by Monguz Ltd., the participants could get in touch with the Earth (i.e. the audience) with the help of a task involving a kinect camera. Once the message got through, after reading the proper QR codes, the audience could ’send back’ the necessary keys for solving the tasks. Finally, the competing teams were helped in finding their way to escape by an augmented reality (AR) app.

F@IMP 2.0

Posted on: July 23rd, 2016 by akovacstapai

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AVICOM (International Committee for Audiovisual and New Image and Sound Technologies) regularly organizes its professional festivals where its ICOM (International Council of Museums) members have the possibility to show and compare their submitted project works. Both the registration and the competition workflow processes have been made easier and speeded up by a new information system.

The online registration module manages the registration of candidates, the submission of museum project works, online public access to them, management of online payments related to submissions. It also provides a platform for both online evaluation process of submitted works by the jury, and general public ratings.

The winners of the different categories of works and museum projects submitted during previous AVICOM festivals are also available and can be consulted publicly in the archives of the site. All published museum projects have been endorsed by the authors and are thus free from constraints related to copyright regulations.

Egis Pharmaceuticals PLC

Posted on: February 10th, 2016 by akovacstapai

Egis Pharmaceuticals PLC has asked us to integrate four already existing, independant library systems. The new system beside the functions of a conventional integrated library system (cataloging, loan, aquisition, weeding, inventory, invoicing, serials, electronic library) can handle interlibrary requests for articles and books, provides a register of electronic contents and of financial reports. That is why readers’ functions are extanded with the option of forwarding requests for articles / book chapters/ books and with the tracking of requests.

User-friendly operation is helped by DOI/PMID based search and automated metadata fill.

The electronic library module insures the storing and retraceability of uploaded digital objects, contents coming for desiderata requests are also stored here. The module is capable of controlling availability on the basis of copyright restrictions.

When completing the requests of researchers working for Egis Pharmaceuticals PLC, spendings are registered department specifically, reports can be generated for certain time periods, so the system can be the basis of financial registration.

Part of the project was to convert all the data from the previous systems without any loss and filling them into the new system.

Opusnet

Posted on: February 10th, 2016 by akovacstapai

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We are working on the books-in-print database of books published in Hungary, which registers books before publication, books available and the ones not available any more. It is an online surface where all publication having an ISBN number can be found with relevant data, i.e. how to acquire the book. Its main function is to help users who have the right and the appropriate service package to make business decisions and to inform about the availability of publications.

The register does not aim to sell books, its goal is to connect and inform publishers, traders, libraries and readers. It is of primary importance during the system development and the later operation that the physical and logical architecture ensures a safe environment for the data and information present in the BiP database. The web portal meets all the requirements of a state-of-the-art web application, it is responsive, multi-language site, which uses friendly URLs and supports the modification of static contents with a WYSIWYG editor. A context-sensitive help page informs the users, explaining functions with examples and pictures in an understandable way.

World War I Digital Exhibition

Posted on: January 23rd, 2016 by akovacstapai

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Digital devices in the service of the museum. A new, permanent exhibition opened in the Institute and Museum of Military History with the title Hungary in the Great War, 1914-1918. It does not only rely on the rich collection, but on the digital content consisting of several components. In all rooms one can browse historical information, picture galleries, animation, cronology in connection with the Hungarian military regiments and troops on touchscreen terminals, and play with the applications making the exhibition more colourful (puzzles with maps and uniforms, quiz for the photo collection of WWI and roleplay game). The interactive exhibition gives multiple interpretation of the war: beyond the battles it depicts the life of soldiers and those who stayed in the hinterlands and social changes are also shown.

Unlike conventional exhibitions, a great number of valuable and interesting information, facts and objects – instead of being hung on the walls – are presented on digital devices, providing the experience of discovery for the visitors. Certainly, show-cases are present in the rooms though QR codes placed on them direct visitors to a web interface, where the Museum tells the story of objects which cannot be represented due to the lack of space or special protection.

The items and data of the collection – present in the digital content of the exhibition – are handled in an integrated system. The digital applications communicate with this database when showing the events and social situation of the period.

PIM DIA Reader

Posted on: June 10th, 2015 by akovacstapai

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The Petőfi Literary Museum Digital Literary Academy is digitizing and publishing the works of the prominent figures of Hungarian contemporary literature. Those who are interested, by downloading and installing the PIM DIA application, can read the works included in the database on their mobile phones. Users can read the texts of the database on mobile devices by downloading the PIM DIA Reader mobile application. On the interface one can look for authors and book titles, can read literary works in mobile optimised layout and can use bookmarks. When digital books are borrowed, content is also available offline. The app works with epub format (meaning that the book is downloaded on the device with reduced size), and a timestamp automatically eliminates the loaned status after 2 weeks.

Antalya Guide

Posted on: February 10th, 2015 by akovacstapai

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The Antalya Guide application debuted on the AnkosLink 2015 conference taking place in Turkey, Antalya. The guests visiting our stand could try the app by scanning a QR code which directed them to a personal guide presenting the rich cultural heritage of the city. Since the Antalya Guide receives its data from the public database of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, users can browse all the museums, natural treasures, statues, mosques, accommodation, sights and recreation facilities the city has to offer. The app is suitable for displaying all kinds of exhibition items and attractions as it supports every media, audio, video and text file format. The integrated search engine is a huge help in browsing the database, as a result of which one can receive tips and hints about worth-to-see places in the city’s certain districts. The multilingual surface of the site, besides offering cultural content also helps the visitors in engagement with different games.

MuseuMap

Posted on: February 10th, 2014 by akovacstapai

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The MuseuMap museum aggregator portal was developed for the Hungarian National Museum. A complex aggregator system is in the background of the portal, which aggregates the collections of the joined institutions in one place, and displays the public records to the visitors.

Browse among works of art uploaded by joined institutions is possible with help of both simple and advanced search funtions. Objects selected according to specific conditions can also be browsed, and result lists can be narrowed down further with timeline and different filter options.

In addition to the presence on a common search interface, the institutions can show their collections with the help of virtual exhibitions which might increase visitor attendance. The service provides an opportunity to deliver the images and textual data automatically to Europeana portal, which enables partner institutions’ collection appear not only in Hungarian, but in a shared European collection, as well.

The portal got new design in 2018.

MOME Design portal

Posted on: September 7th, 2013 by akovacstapai

After a long preparation in the Library of the Moholy-Nagy University of Arts, the institutional repository called DesignPortal was launched in 2013, which implements the collection and publication of digital content created at the University, its content and thematic processing, and its long-term preservation. The project required innovative solutions from the developers, as the content created at the University includes a wide variety of works: from ceramic design to applications for smartphones to animated films, the range of documents that can be uploaded can range. In the first phase, the uploading of diploma theses, doctoral dissertations, and animated films began, and a year later, a database of faculty creators and publications, as well as a common search engine, were completed. At the same time, functions not closely related to the repository have been developed: in addition to librarians, students, consultants, opponents, diploma committee members and education secretaries are also involved in the work.

Kultura Malopolska Site

Posted on: June 10th, 2013 by akovacstapai

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The National Museum in Krakow, together with its 6 partner institutions worked on a project the key objective of which is to create a platform for the digitization of museum collections in the region of Małopolska, and to make the created content accessible to the public.

The shared platform developed by Qulto serves as a means to protect and promote the digitally processed cultural heritage. All partners’ collections can be browsed on this portal which is basically built on an aggregated database supplied by the partner institutions’ collections.

During the implemenation phase, in accordance with current standards, the collection management systems of the 7 partner museums had to be integrated into one single shared system. Thus the portal, which offers several search options within collections, was connected to the shared system, and the once digitally described data could automatically be displayed on the dedicated website.

Visitors can browse the data according to several search conditions, search results can be refined by filters, public descriptive data, galleries, and social media functions can be accessed in case of every artefact, and also the use of tags enhance further the user experience while browsing the rich cultural content made available on Kultura Malopolska portal.

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