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With the rapid development of social media, personalized recommendation has become an essential means to help people discover attractive and interesting items. Intuitively, users buying items online are influenced not only by their preferences and public attentions, but also by the crowd sentiment (i.e., the word of mouth) to the items. Specifically, users are likely to refuse an item whose mos...

As digital opportunities emerge in the visual arts—to produce multimedia art and digital scholarship, publish online, and hold online museum exhibitions—old copyright frustrations have worsened in a field where getting permissions is routine. A national survey of 2828 visual arts professionals, combined with 100 in-depth interviews of visual arts practitioners throughout the United States, expl...

Digital assets in contemporary performing arts practice are vulnerable to damage and disappearance, eroding prospects of a coherent record of contemporary practice and its place in our wider digital cultural heritage. This paper summarises a study that seeks to understand and assess this threat so that appropriate solutions – if necessary – can be scoped and provided in a way accessible both to...

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islamic arts are often identified by their abstract compositions based on geometric principles and spiritual concepts. using artworks from different eras, this paper highlights the presence of a particular model of thought in islamic arts in which the hierarchy of perspectival vision is abolished. the main argument is based on the ability of some artworks to be looked at from any angle while ma...

The authors of this paper focus on Yamahoko parade in the Kyoto Gion Festival, which was inscribed on the UNESCO’s Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2009. We produce a content, combining motion and acoustics of Yamahoko floats, parade spectators and crews within a platform of Virtual Kyoto. Approximately 730 spectators are simulated in this virtual parade to...

Crowdsourcing has gained much attention in practice over the last years. Numerous companies have drawn on this concept for performing different tasks and value creation activities. Nevertheless, despite its popularity, there is still comparatively little well-founded knowledge on crowdsourcing, particularly with regard to the governance of crowdsourcing initiatives. Although proper governance i...

The Museum aan de Stroom (MAS) in Antwerp, Belgium, opened the doors of its long-anticipated exhibition, 100 X Congo, on 3 October 2020, highlighting presence a Congolese art collection that has been owned by city for hundred years (1920-2020). Tackling often uneasy history how these things ended up museums colonial ‘motherland’, this exhibition signals step forwards museology away from mere ae...

Cultural heritage collections usually organise sets of items into exhibitions or guided tours. These items are often accompanied by text that describes the theme and topic of the exhibition and provides background context and details of connections with other items. The PATHS project brings the idea of guided tours to digital library collections where a tool to create virtual paths are used to ...