Social inclusion, lifelong learning and the regeneration of competence networks are key processes which foster innovation. Museums may play an important role in these processes and ICT can strongly support the effectiveness of the interventions required. Among them, digital tools used to tell stories are becoming increasingly popular. Narratives in new dimensions enable the formation of persona...

After decades of digitization, the web hosts a large scale museum, consisting of millions of digital cultural objects. To balance the drawbacks of parsimonious search-centric interfaces, various approaches have been developed to enable also visual access to these collections, and to browse and explore the cultural richness of existing archives. This paper reviews information visualization appro...

In 1965 the Apartheid government of South Africa followed through on a decision to rezone the District Six area of Cape Town as a whites-only zone. Subsequently, the region was almost completely destroyed, resulting in a huge loss of South African Heritage. All that remains today are a handful of artifacts and an archive of photographs, all of which are housed at the District Six Museum in Cape...

In recent years a variety of 3D scanning technologies has been applied to the field of Heritage Preserve. The paper describes an operational 3D scanning system that has been set up at Kaohsiung Museum of History for digital archival of cultural artifacts. Also, an approach that refines resolution of stereo correspondence to improve model quality obtained by structured lighting is proposed. The ...

The Institute of Museum and Library Services is the primary source of federal support for the nation's 122,000 libraries and 17,500 museums. The Institute's mission is to create strong libraries and museums that connect people to information and ideas. The Institute works at the national level and in coordination with state and local organizations to sustain heritage, culture, and knowledge; en...

Figure 1 Archives Portal Europe 1. Lift-off There has been a big trend within the cultural heritage sector over the last decade to develop web portals at every level, ranging from a local museum community to an international library consortium. Especially in Europe, this phenomenon is distinct as the needs of the portals are identified due to the barriers which complex layers of institutions an...

The article discusses tensions, ambiguities, and political implications of the fact that what is nowadays negotiated as industrial heritage is still part of the lived experience of several generations of men and women in the former Yugoslavia. It argues that the issues of representation of industrial labor essentially have to do with the place given to the working communities, their members as ...

This paper discusses the capabilities of the Vist3D system which enables non-technical users, specifically users without knowledge of 3D modelling techniques, interface design, data manipulation and creation of multimedia artefacts to build historical 3D spatiotemporal visualisations from natural language narratives. The user (e.g. museum curator, people involved with cultural heritage) need on...

Recording, mapping, 3D modeling and visualization for structures of architectural significance and objects of importance to cultural heritage have been received attention for digital archives or VR museum. With this motive, the authors have been developing an efficient modeling system for recreating historical city. However, reliable descriptions of ancient landscape are currently requested fro...

Since 2003, Barcelona charter has highlighted the importance of digital recording of historic ships and maritime heritage in general. Despite this has been stressed with emphasis, three dimensional modelling of maritime cultural heritage is still not usual as for archaeology and architecture. Three-dimensional modelling in the maritime heritage needs particular requirements. Objects to be recor...