Cultural Heritage Valorisation for Regional Development

Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Tourism Development

Intangible Cultural Heritage Valorisation: a New Field for Design Research and Practice

This paper presents a new emerging knowledge and professional field for the design research processes and design practice, which is Cultural Heritage Valorisation, focusing, as paradigmatic case study, on the valorisation of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of territories and local communities. The Intangible Cultural Heritage documentation and transmission is socially relevant and, due to its ...

Ontologies for Cultural Heritage

In the cultural heritage domain information systems are increasingly deployed, digital representations of physical objects are produced in immense numbers and there is a strong political pressure on memory institutions to make their holdings accessible to the public in digital form. The sector splits into a set of disciplines with highly specialized fields. Due to the resulting diversity, one c...

Interfaces for Cultural Heritage

The newspapers and popular media constantly draw attention to an incredible rise in the amount of information especially through the Internet. Knight-Ridder News, for instance, recently cited an IBM study claiming that only seven percent of all corporate data is ever used. The amount of knowledge in great libraries and museums that is regularly used is less. Some major collections have as much ...

Cultural Heritage

Il Progetto Nu.M.E. (Nuovo Museo Elettronico della Storia della Città di Bologna), è iniziato nel 1997 dall’idea di poter creare un ambiente virtuale che permettesse di realizzare una ricostruzione tridimensionale dell’habitat urbano e delle sue trasformazioni storiche dai giorni nostri al 1200. È nata così la città in 4 dimensioni (tre dimensioni spaziali più una temporale) che permette ai vis...