Armadillo Systems is probably the
foremost provider of interactive solutions for books,
documents and manuscripts in the world.
We specialise in producing unique applications
that provide access and interpretation for items that
would otherwise remain under glass and we understand
the tension that exists between the need for conservation
and the requirement of access. We have been working
with libraries and museums since 1997 and developed
the award-winning Turning the Pages TM
technology with the British Library.
We have developed a methodology of approaching
bibliographic projects that encompasses thinking about
the book in 5 ways:
- the book as object
- the book as content
- the book as icon
- the book as window into the past
- the book as gateway to future learning
Addressing each of these areas allow
us to design applications that inspire as well as
inform.
We develop solutions for gallery
touchscreen systems as well as cd-rom
and the internet, and our project
list includes the following:
Jane Austen's History of England
Elizabeth Blackwell's Curious Herbal
William Blake's Songs of Innocence (in
production)
Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures Under Ground
The Diamond Sutra
The Golden Hagadah
The Golf Book
James Joyce Ulysses (No. 1 of the first
edition)
James Joyce Paris and Pola Commonplace Books
James Joyce notebooks used in the creation of Ulysses
Leonardo da Vinci's Codex Arundel
The Lindsfarne Gospels
The Luttrell Psalter
Magna Carta (in production)
The Mercator Atlas of Europe
Mozart's Thematic Catalogue (in
production)
The Sforza Hours
The Sherborne Missal
Stars of Science
Sultan Baybars' Qur'an
Vesalius' De Humanis Corporis Fabrica
The Wellcome Apocalypse
Robert Willan's On Cutaneous Diseases
WB Yeats Rapallo notebooks (in
production)
The success of some of these projects has been extraordinary.
Launching Alice's Adventures Under Ground
online in September 2005, we had 60,000 visitors in
the first five days. When we installed touchscreen
versions of Ulysses at the National Library
of Ireland they had to install seating at the touchscreens,
as visitors were spending so long using them.
Further information on Turning
the Pages TM is available at www.turningthepages.com.
If you would like to find out more about the way we
work, contact
Michael Stocking here.
