This paper addresses three research issues for virtual heritage system, 3D modeling, 3D media asset database management, and interactive presentation through networks. We first show an overview of our virtual heritage system. Then, our approaches on each research issue are introduced. We develop 3D modeling environment using both of two emerging techniques, i.e., image-based 3D modeling and 3D ...

This paper presents the results of a study which explored the use of Flickr by cultural heritage institutions. The study examined two aspects of museums’ use of Flickr: the content of images posted by museums, and the reasons behind sharing their images to the social media site. Images were categorized by the researchers into nine classes based on their visible content, and a brief questionnair...

Population diversification phenomena becomes quite common in villages located in China’s developed coastal area. Based on the analysis of the traditional rural society and its landscape characteristics, and in consideration of diversified landscape requirements due to the population diversification, with dual ideas of heritage and innovation, methods for rural landscape design were explored by ...

Museums around the world have built databases with metadata about millions of objects, the people who created them, and the entities they represent. This data is stored in proprietary databases and is not readily available for use. Recently, museums embraced the Semantic Web as a means to make this data available to the world, but the experience so far shows that publishing museum data to the L...

A number of technologies have been developed to support the museum visitor, with the aim of making their visit more educationally rewarding and/or entertaining. Examples include PDA-based personalized tour guides and virtual reality representations of cultural objects or scenes. Rather than supporting the actual visit, we decided to employ technology to support the post-visitor, that is, encour...

Sangiran Tourism Village or Krikilan is one of the tourist villages that has unique geology, being part Cultural Conservation area which been designated as a UNESCO World Heritage. Therefore, tourism development in should not be carried out arbitrarily and planning needed through appropriate products. This study uses descriptive method qualitative approach to find actual situation phenomena. Th...

The article is devoted to the development of ecological tourism in agrarian territories Ukraine, particular, creation an organizational model a living museum-ethno-farm, exhibits which are productive gray cattle, whose herds hundred years ago formed basis economy disappearing. As objects tourist business, animals Ukrainian breed beautiful tourists: they have appearance that immediately memorabl...

The article is devoted to the activities of Argun State Historical, Architectural and Natural Museum-Reserve Chechen Republic for preservation identification new monuments medieval architecture in mountainous regions Chechnya. has status an object historical cultural heritage federal significance. objects museum-reserve are important factor not only heritage, but also national originality ident...

Web Science studies the interpay between web technology and the human behaviour it induces at the micro, meso and macro level. In this extended abstract we examine Web Science research issues by taking a closer look at the area of digital heritage. We discuss engineering, communication and socio-economic aspects. 1 What is Web Science? Over the past 15 years the Web has had an increasing impact...