Yaroslavl Churches in the Internet.
T. Routman
M. Novikov
P.G. Demidov Yaroslavl State University, Centre of New Information Technologies
Address: 150000, Russia, Yaroslavl, Sovietskaya st., 14, room 222
Phone: (0852)32-11-94
E-mail: cnit@cnit.uniyar.ac.ru
www: http://cnit2.uniyar.ac.ru
Modern computer multimedia and Internet technologies development, lower cost producing and using multimedia products make it possible to create information systems and multimedia CD-ROMs about monuments of Russian Art for the purpose of perseverance, education and information dissemination.
The Church of Elijah the Prophet is a notable monument of the Russian Culture of the 17th century that had played a significant role in the development of Yaroslavl architectural and painting school.
The church was built in 1647-1650 on the site of two stone temples at the account of the richest local merchants, brothers the Skripins. Initially it was situated on the territory of their estate. Yet, after Yaroslavl reconstruction in accordance to the plan of 1778 the Church of Elijah the Prophet became the centre of the administrative square, one of the main architectural installations of the town.
The Church of Elijah the Prophet is a real treasury of ancient Russian Art that enshrines the memory of the talent of many best masters: architects, painters, smiths, goldsmiths and carvers. As to the architectural forms, wall painting and composition of icons, the Church of Elijah belongs to the most expressive and perfect architectural ensembles of the 17th century. It is one of the Yaroslavl monuments preserved most entirely and well.
From the end of XVIII century, the Church of Elijah the Prophet is located in the centre of the administrative square. It is one of the main architectural installations of the town. The Church is famous for its history and people, who took part in constructing, decorating, studying and restoring it.
The WWW-server with free access was developed by Yaroslavl State University named after P.G. Demidov and Yaroslavl Museum-Preserve for History and Architecture with support of Open Society Institute (Soros Foundation) to 350th anniversary of the Church.
This project follows the previous projects on WWW-servers creation, dedicated to Yaroslavl Churches - monuments of the Russian Art.
The Internet network makes possible to create information sites about architectural monuments with such multimedia components as text, image, audio and video. This has an advantage to traditional books, albums, audio and video cassettes.
At the same time, Internet network has some limitations in using multimedia information. For example, to receive full multimedia content, you should have a wide bandwidth of connection. But even in this case WWW servers have some advantages to printed papers. The first one is lower cost of creation, flexible abilities to extend information and world-wide connectivity.
Typically, Internet lacks the editorial referring of information. The second disadvantage is that the information is accessible only in the Internet society.
Except The Church of Elijah the Prophet WWW server, Yaroslavl State University named by P.G. Demidov in co-operation with Yaroslavl Museum-Preserve of History and Architecture and Yaroslavl Art Museum have created and placed in the Internet WWW sites of the architectural masterpiece of the Dmitriev church in Yaroslavl (XIV-XX) and Architectural and pictorial ensemble of St. Nicholas Mokry church parish in Yaroslavl XVII – XVIII. Some sites about Yaroslavl churches are under construction now.
This and other information can be obtained from the site of Yaroslavl Centre of New information technologies - http://cnit2.uniyar.ac.ru.
Tamara Rutman, Researcher of Department of architecture and Monumental Painting of Yaroslavl Museum-Preserve of History and Architecture, alumni of Department of History and Foreign Languages of Yaroslavl Pedagogical Institute named after K.D. Ushinsky .
Maxim Novikov
, Leading Programmer of the Centre of New Information Technologies of Yaroslavl State University named after P.G. Demidov, alumnus of Department of Computer Science of Yaroslavl State University named after P.G. Demidov.Yaroslavl Centre of New Information Technologies (YarCNIT)
was established in 1992 according the decision of the Ministry of Sciences, Russian Federation. YarCNIT is the structural part of Yaroslavl State University named after P.G. Demidov. Within the frameworks of YarCNIT the Demo-Hall for Information Technologies in the Humanities and the Scientific-Technological Program for the Humanities "Yaroslavia" were opened in 1994 and 1996 correspondingly.YarCNIT is intended to act in the sphere of new information technologies in education and university science. The main tasks of the Centre are the projects devoted to studying and preserving of historical and cultural heritage of Yaroslavl Region, works in the area of information technologies of humanitarian sphere.
These tasks are solved by creating the specialised web-servers, producing CD-ROMs, developing the distant learning courses elements, developing and creating the corporate databases. The main used concepts for solving the current tasks are multimedia and Internet.
YarCNIT presents the results at various conferences, in mass media, by publishing CD-ROMs and sharing Internet resources.
Last time the results were presented at the following conferences: