Dutch Period Museum – Colombo

The seventeenth-century Dutch hospital in Colombo.

Sri Lanka, known as Ceylon till 1972, is an island which was successively occupied by the Portuguese (1505-1656), the Dutch (1656-1796), and the British (1796-1948). The Portuguese and the Dutch succeeded in conquering only the maritime provinces, the central highlands being under the control of the kings of Kandy, who by force or ruse contrived to keep their kingdom intact from these two Europ...

COLOMBO: Deliverable D5.4

COLOMBO: Deliverable 5.2

Automatic Composition of Web Services in Colombo

In this paper we present Colombo, a framework where web services are characterized in terms of (i) message exchanges, (ii) data flow, and (iii) effects on the real world. While all these aspects have been separately considered in the literature, Colombo is the first attempt to address all of them in a single coherent framework. Dealing with all these aspects together, in fact, is particularly c...

Multimedia in Museum, Museum in Multimedia

The main product of MM for use in the registration activity is the Database (DB) on the artefacts of the museum collections, combining text, images, and graphics. The quality of the images must be appropriate at least to current television standards. The application of such technology will allow the display of images and descriptions on any specific artwork or group of artworks, such as is usua...