When a head of state or minister signs a cultural exchange agreement with a colleague from another nation, a collective shudder goes up the spines of the conservators and curators of museums, and collections of art and cultural heritage in those respective countries. It is not that they are against cultural exchange. Far from it, the opportunity to share collections and experience with other au...

The paper proposes a business model for the efficiency optimization of the interaction between all actors involved in cultural heritage sector, such as galleries, libraries, archives and museums (GLAM). The implementation of virtual exhibitions on mobile devices is described and analyzed as a key factor for increasing the cultural heritage visibility. New perspectives on the development of virt...

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.

MultiMatch is a 30 month targeted research project under the Sixth Framework Programme, supported by the unit for Content, Learning and Cultural Heritage (Digicult) of the Information Society DG. MultiMatch is developing a multimedia/multilingual search engine designed specifically for the access, organization and personalized presentation of cultural heritage information. The demonstration wil...

We present an overview of CultureSampo, an ambitious system for creating a collective semantic memory of the cultural heritage of a nation on the Semantic Web 2.0, combining ideas underlying the Semantic Web and the Web 2.0. The system addresses the semantic web challenge of aggregating highly heterogeneous, cross-domain cultural heritage collections and other contents into a semantically rich ...

This chapter analyses how cultural heritage destinations should evolve to keep pace with changes in the demand for cultural tourism. The empirical evidence shows that the most important heritage destinations suffer from a misalignment of their value propositions with respect to the new needs of cultural tourists. These types of gaps can be filled only by understanding the features and evolution...

Despite a busy lifestyle – or perhaps as a result of a stressful lifestyle – more people than ever before make leisure trips, sometimes for a long time but in many cases just for short periods. Modern telecommunication technology brings attractive tourist destinations directly into the living rooms of potential travellers, also destinations that would otherwise have been difficult to find, such...

SMARTMUSEUM (Cultural Heritage Knowledge Exchange Platform) is a Research and Development project sponsored under the Europeans Commission’s 7th Framework. The overall objective of the project is to develop a platform for innovative services enhancing on-site personalized access to digital cultural heritage through adaptive and privacy preserving user profiling. Using onsite knowledge databases...

The presentation focuses on three aspects of applying advanced information communication technologies (ICT) in the field of cultural heritage: preservation, dissemination, and training on ICT in case of countries in transition Lithuania is one of such countries. The aim is to specify economic and social conditions for ICT development in such countries and to show how advanced ICT provide equal ...

Cultural heritage contents are commonly offered by touristic mobile applications, but it is possible to explore deeper the subject and add AR elements to create an immersive approach. The adaptation of an art-oriented tool reveals some of the possibilities to display cultural heritage content in real case scenario without any large technical experience. It also presents the difficulties on deal...