The historians made archival research and produced 15 long texts with footnotes about holders of the books from the Books discovered once again project. We are continuosly publishing microstories on our website. We also promised to make multimedia presentation of our microstories. I hope that these multimedia and online presented forms of microstories will inspire users to read whole texts because they highlight the main milestones and facts from our stories.

1. Multimedia presentation of
the microstories
Nina Wančová
Prague, 13. 9. 2016

2. Long text to multimedia form
● 5-9 pages of text
● Multimedia form has to be easy to translate to
English
● Multimedia form of microstories should trigger
interest and inspire to read the whole stories
● Source of inspiration:
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/us/y
ear-in-interactive-storytelling.html

3. Input material
● Text of microstories
● Stamps and exlibrises
● Scans of books
Other
● Pictures of people
● Photographs
● Scans of archival documents

4. Video
● Slides of visual material with
comment or subtitles
● Very popular form of
presentation
● More difficult to make and
translate (dubbing/subtitles)

5. Collage of photos with captions
● Easy to make and effective
● Enables to show milestones in
people’s lives, history progress
of institutions and
relationships between events

6. Infographics
● Increasingly popular
● Great way to present content if
we don’t have enough visual
material
● Content is easy to remember
due to pictograms and colours

7. Photostory
● Series of photos with
comments
● Good form if we have a
lot of interesting visual
material
● New York Times
interactive uses it very
often

8. Slideshow
● Similar to photostory
● The comments are next
photo not inside

9. Conclusion
● Microstories are interesting texts but very very long
● The reader has to be highly motivated to read them all
● Multimedia form of microstories should help to choose which ones to
read
● We need to highlight the main milestones and put them into multimedia
presentation
● Multimedia forms are based on pictures. Do we have them????