About This Project
Information Modeling and Web Technology
Project Background
This website was created as the final project for the course Information Modeling and Web Technology (A.Y. 2024/2025), part of the Master's Degree Programme in Digital Humanities and Digital Knowledge at the University of Bologna.
The course is taught by Prof. Fabio Vitali and follows the framework called MMMM (Multimedia Museum Meta Mirror), a model for exploring how narratives, metadata and web technologies can support digital cultural experiences.
Exhibition Theme
Porcelain Witness
Porcelain Witness presents a virtual journey through five centuries of Chinese porcelain. Using eighteen carefully selected objects, the exhibition forms a historical corridor that spans from the Ming dynasty to the present.
These works show how porcelain has functioned as a diplomatic gift, a global trade commodity, an artistic medium and, in recent years, a bridge between material craft and digital culture.
Key Features
Narrative-Driven Experience
Three distinct routes: Historical Timeline, Cultural Exchange, and Craft Evolution. Switching between them enables multiple ways of experiencing the same collection.
Narrative-Adaptive Texts
Each route generates its own focus, tone and degree of depth, allowing interpretive content to shift naturally across different storylines.
Six Visual Themes
Typography, colour palettes and layout structures change with the selected theme, reinforcing the distinct atmosphere of each narrative path.
Immersive Spatial Guidance
A fictional but plausible museum floor plan highlights the optimal sequence of galleries, creating a coherent movement through space and story.
Design Team
Yuming Lian
yuming.lian@studio.unibo.it
Xinyi Guo
xinyi.guo@studio.unibo.it
Yutong Li
yutong.li2@studio.unibo.it
Technical Implementation
Built using semantic HTML, CSS, and modular JavaScript ensuring clarity, accessibility and a clean structural foundation.
Copyright and Acknowledgements
This website was developed exclusively for the Information Modeling and Web Technology course as an academic project.
Primary Content Sources
- National Palace Museum Digital Archive: https://digitalarchive.npm.gov.tw/
- The Palace Museum: https://intl.dpm.org.cn/
- Jingdezhen China Ceramics Museum: http://tcg.jdzol.net/
- SuperRare Digital Art Gallery: https://superrare.com/
- OpenSea NFT Marketplace: https://opensea.io/