Digital libraries and gamification: overview and state of the art This article presents an overview of the main gamification projects for digital libraries, either for tagging or OCR correction. This overview is followed by a state of the art with functionalities, motivations, sociology of contributors and the scope of gamification compared to the serious games and explicit crowdsourcing. Final...

Subway is a participatory multi-located activist art project. It builds on the mediation of a dance performance by breaking a video apart into its image frames; creating a photo app in Android to re-use these frames as guides for a frame-by-frame reenactment; and finally reassembling the collected images into a new video. Through the affordances of digital and mobile media, it allowed participa...

The paper presents the architecture of experimental Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) system APICAS ("Art Painting Image Colour Aesthetics and Semantics"). This system has been developed within a doctoral thesis which aims to provide a suite of specialized tools for CBIR within a digital library of art images. The high-level architecture suggested in this work takes OAIS as a basis and adds ...

Digital technology is becoming day by day a more important procedure in most of the clinic activities and, thus, orthodontists are increasingly adding digital technology to their orthodontics records. In this article we want to outline the advantages and disadvantages of the use of digital photography, digital radiography as well as one of the latest developments: the digital study stone casts....

The Allen Memorial Art Museum (AMAM) at Oberlin College is using digital technology to enhance its educational mission: digital archiving and web publishing are being used to vastly increase and enhance the availability of our educational resources. By pursuing the dual goals of presentation and preservation, we are creating a system that will allow unprecedented access to thousands of signific...

Sound is sometimes neglected in digital art programs, visual art being the traditional focus. However, visual artists might be quite willing to incorporate more sound and music into their courses if they were shown a “quick-start” way to integrate a second medium. This paper provides such a quick start in five areas: a rationale for including digital sound in digital art courses; suggestions fo...

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In this paper we analyse the representation of the visual arts on the Internet through an examination of three main questions: a) How can multimedia technologies (re)present visual art in innovative ways that effectively and appropriately communicate meanings to the vieweduser? b) How can the language or languages of multimedia technologies be best used to communicate the language or languages ...