Content-based navigation within virtual museums

Virtual Museums and Virtual Realities

First, the artifacts on display are supposed to be real. For example, a real amphora is displayed and not its photograph or some other facsimile. There are many disadvantages to this practice: Some artifacts are too large, or may be incomplete, making their display difficult; expensive measures have to be taken to assure security for the artifacts; and the displays need environmental conditions...

Virtual endoscopy: navigation within pelvicaliceal system.

PURPOSE To evaluate the use of virtual endoscopy (VE) for the investigation of the pelvicaliceal unit and the depiction of its anatomic deformities. PATIENTS AND METHODS Two study groups were prospectively enrolled in our protocol: ten patients with nonurologic pathologies, and thus without any known deformity of the pelvicaliceal unit (group A), and five patients with caliceal obstruction (g...

Virtual Museums Transnational Network

Virtual Museums : Platforms , Practices , Prospects

This chapter provides a broad survey of virtual museums and their developments in a range of contexts from various parts of the world. The focus is on exploring virtual museum platforms and features designed for different purposes and practices, and the prospect of the potential in such virtual environments to meet specific needs in varied contexts. Attention is given particularly to the growin...

Unified knowledge-based content management for digital archives in museums

Worldwide museums are facing the challenge of applying knowledge management to digital archives projects to unify content acquisition, creation, organization, reusing, and publication among individuals, departments, and projects for long-term business prospective. We propose a unified knowledge-based content management approach that consists of a unified knowledge content process, a knowledge-b...