In this paper we survey the recent activities and achievements of our research group in the deployment of XMLrelated technologies in Cultural Heritage applications concerning the encoding of temporal semantics in Web documents. In particular we will review “The Valid Web”, which is an XML/XSL infrastructure we defined and implemented for the definition and management of historical information w...

Issues of digital preservation of shapes and internal structures of historical cultural objects are discussed. An overview of existing approaches to digital preservation related to shape modeling is presented and corresponding problems are considered. We propose a new digital preservation paradigm based on both constructive modeling reflecting the logical structure of the objects and open stand...

Cultural heritage data is always associated with inaccurate information and different types of ambiguities. For instance, names of persons, occupations or places mentioned in historical documents are not standardized and contain numerous variations. This article examines in detail various existing similarity functions and proposes a hybrid technique for the following task: among the list of pos...

Distance education has experienced profound changes due to the introduction of new technologies, especially mobile devices of different types. It is necessary to define new learning techniques which are able to capture students’ attention and to engage them in their learning activities, reducing problems like distraction generated by the use of the device itself and/or by the surrounding enviro...

Jews in Serbia always represented a micro-community. However, the interesting fact is that even in post-war period, the decline of Jewish population in Serbia continued. The Jewish communities mostly inhabited Belgrade and Vojvodina region (especially Bačka region). The study is based on statistical and historical data about the events concerning the extermination of the Jewish nation and herit...

Building information modelling (BIM) is becoming a useful approach in the documentation and enhancement of historical structures in a system termed historical BIM (HBIM). It is not easy to convert point clouds into a 3D model since the buildings concerned often have very irregular geometry. Therefore, more semi-automatic parameterisation tools are needed. Portable, user-navigable HBIM databases...

In recent years, digital reconstruction of cultural heritage provides an effective way of protecting historical relics, in which the modeling of surface reflection of historical heritage with high fidelity places a very important role. In this paper Gaussian process (GP) regression based approach is proposed to model the reflection properties of real materials, in which the simulation data gene...

Historical documents are mostly accessible to scholars specialized in the period in which the document originated. In order to increase their accessibility to a broader audience and help in the preservation of the cultural heritage, we propose a method to modernized these documents. This method is based in statistical machine translation, and aims at translating historical documents into a mode...