Heritage Resources Centre

Representation Patterns for Cultural Heritage Resources

e Problem Currently, librarians, archivists, and museum professionals can choose from a large universe of representation standards (see Figure 1). Each of these standards exhibits various strengths and weaknesses based on the problems they are engineered to address. Unfortunately, standards developers do not always explicitly articulate the problems or the contexts that shaped a particular sol...

Architecture and Heritage Resources of Mysore City

Mysore city is known as the ‘city of palaces’. It is an ancient, historical, cultural capital and a heritage city in India. The city has been recognised as a heritage city under the cultural tag both by the state and national governments. The total harmony of architectural buildings, sites, lakes, parks and open spaces and the back drop of Chamundi hills adds to the city’s attraction. The city ...

International Centre for Human Resources in Nursing

Combining Cultural Heritage Related Web Resources in 3D Information Landscapes

In recent years, the number of data collections that are publicly available via the Internet has dramatically increased. Web based semantic databases like Wikipedia derivate DbPedia extend the functionality of Wikipedia by allowing semantic annotations to the information that is usually in form of free text. Since these data collections also cover broad topics related to the Cultural Heritage (...

Exploring Cultural Heritage Resources in a 3d Collaborative Environment

Cultural heritage is a complex and diverse concept, which brings together a wide domain of information. Resources linked to a cultural heritage site may consist of physical artefacts, books, works of art, pictures, historical maps, aerial photographs, archaeological surveys and 3D models. Moreover, all these resources are listed and described by a set of a variety of metadata specifications tha...