Tag Archives: Gospel of John

Discovering augmented reality at UCA

This is the third in a trio of blog posts inspired by the workshop led by Team SCARLET on Friday 7th December at University for the Creative Arts (UCA). The other two blog posts deal with the CSC’s working prototype AR application and with a lecturer’s perspective on AR. Attendees from UCA to the workshop … Read more

St John Fragment AR content

AR material relating to the St John Fragment has now been released as part of the SCARLET project in collaboration with Dr. Roberta Mazza. It provides the user an opportunity to surface contextual information about the most famous piece of papyri at The University of Manchester Library , view an expert academic commentary and see … Read more

The SCARLET Focus Groups: 2nd and 3rd Year Undergraduates

On the 3rd of May, Matt Ramirez and I conducted our latest series of focus groups with two different courses, whose delivery will involve the oldest fragment of the Gospel of John, which dates back to the 2nd half of the second century, C.E.  These focus groups are part of our continuing process of evaluating … Read more

The SCARLET Project Survey

As part of the on-going work to evaluate and disseminate the work being done with the SCARLET Project,  we conducted a simple and straightforward survey for Dr. Guyda Armstrong’s 3rd year undergraduates from the pilot course “Beyond the Text: The Book and Its Body” which used the SCARLET app with Special Collections.  The survey was … Read more

Bringing ancient Greek papyri to life through AR

The Rylands papyri collection is one of the most important of the world, and constitutes an immense occasion for a papyrologist and ancient historian. It is an immense resource for both research and teaching. Of the about 2,000 Greek and Latin papyri in the collection, 700 have been restored, framed, catalogued and published, but many … Read more