This paper describes preliminary conclusions from a long-term study of cultural heritage digital collections. First, those features most important to cultural heritage digital libraries are described. Second, we list those components that have proven most useful in boot-strapping new collections.

Ethnomathematics is the study of mathematical ideas and practices situated in their cultural context. Culturally Situated Design Tools (CSDTs) are web-based software applications that allow students to create simulations of cultural arts—Native American beadwork, African American cornrow hairstyles, urban graffiti, and so forth—using these underlying mathematical principles. This article is a r...

The goal of our research in Cultural Heritage is to create applications on advanced devices, in order to provide engaging experiences that can foster people interest in Cultural Heritage. In this paper, we highlight some features of the developed applications to show how creativity, new communication channels and End-User Development (EUD) are used to reach our research goal.

neuroscience has recently contributed a lot to the understanding of aesthetic experience features. science, art and creativity are not really distinctively different entities. the parallelism seen between the properties of art and organizational principals of the brain has been highlighted through neuroaesthetic studies. aesthetic as a subjective experience has comprehensively been studies thro...

During the past decade, archaeological studies conducted in the Seymareh River catchment area have provided invaluable findings for analytical investigations and, thus, gaining insights into various fields such as pottery, architecture, and multifarious cultural artefacts. Amongst the most significant of such archaeological findings are cemeteries with their cultural implications, which provide...

Reverse Engineering Complex Cultural Concepts: Identifying Building Blocks of “Religion” Ann Taves ABSTRACT: Researchers have not yet done an adequate job of reverse engineering the complex cultural concepts of religion and spirituality in a way that allows scientists to operationalize component parts and historians of religion to consider how the component parts have been synthesized into larg...