ii Preface The LaTeCH (Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities) annual workshop series aims to provide a forum for researchers who are working on aspects of natural language and information technology applications that pertain to data from the humanities, social sciences, and cultural heritage. The LaTeCH workshops were initially motivated by the growing inter...

The challenge of multiple narratives at cultural heritage sites is explained. Background and references are given to Cultural Heritage Tourism Theory. A solution is proposed, involving different strategies for different people at different sites and time. Open questions from both the nontechnical and technical angles are proposed. Author

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.

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 ...

In the contemporary society memory institutions experience great changes associated with digitization-the new method for preservation, education and access. Since in many cases memory institutions have the insufficient budgets, commercial promotion of cultural heritage can be seen as an alternative financial source indicating the possible niches, like cultural tourism, in the digital services m...

Hypertext are proposed to be adopted in theatre as the "cultural" alternative to the "physical" means of interaction such as ~nultivision or tridimensional effects. A particular class of hypertexts, oriented to multimedia1 shows on the cultural heritage of some peoples, has been designed and experimented in several perfo~mances. Hypertexts enrich and are enriched from the performance of the act...

This paper presents the initial outcomes of a key scoping study undertaken to explore the role of augmented reality and motion detecting technologies in the context of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) for museums related environments. Initial prototypes are in the form of an interactive infrared camera based application for children to engage with an Aboriginal puppet. This scoping study is u...

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 ...

Looting and theft of cultural property has been a problem for decades. While there are no exact figures, some agencies suggest it is a criminal industry grossing in the billions annually. Documentation is an essential and key component to finding lost or stolen cultural property and in establishing ownership in a court of law. However, the data on cultural heritage is locked up in data silos ma...

Mobile augmented reality is recommended to be implemented at cultural heritage sites to enhance visitor’s experience. Visitors enable to learn informally about the cultural items, values, and history of the sites while enjoying their visit. However, at our initial study, it is found that such mobile augmented reality has not been implemented atcultural heritage sites in South-East Asia region i...