Modern 3D scanning technologies allow to reconstruct 3D digital representations of Cultural Heritage artifacts in a semi-automatic way, characterized by very high accuracy and wealth of details. The availability of an accurate digital representation opens several possibilities of utilization to experts (restorers, archivists, museum curators), or to ordinary people (students, museum visitors). ...

In this paper, we describe a distributed systems and Web Services Architecture that supports a content management and collaborative tagging system for a Webbased cultural heritage site. The site uses Formal Concept Analysis to infer semantic associations between objects and drive the navigation of its collection, and we promote an extension of its capability by rendering such functionality via ...

background and objectives: in the last few decades, losses of our cultural heritage due to biodeteriorationare beinghighly recognized. from museum objects to rock monuments, the microbial biodeterioration agents are found to be the most destructive. possibilities for proper preservative measure(s) are always more when it is only a monument, statue, museum article, or pre-historic art in any sma...

As the amount of cultural data available on the Semantic Web is expanding, the demand of accessing this data in multiple languages is increasing. Previous work on multilingual access to cultural heritage information has shown that mapping from ontologies to natural language requires at least two different steps: (1) mapping multilingual metadata to interoperable knowledge sources; (2) assigning...

In using new media as a means for providing access to cultural heritage collections, it is inevitable that museums, as content providers and facilitators, face the copyright challenge. This is especially so, since copyright, is not apparent in the Internet environment. Copyright can act as a barrier, limiting electronic access to museum content d u e to conditions placed on the use of certain m...

The feasibility of using microcontrollers in real life applications is becoming more widespread. These applications have grown from do-it-yourself (DIY) projects of computer enthusiasts or robotics projects to larger scale efforts and deployments. This project developed and deployed a prototype application that allows the public to interact with features of a model and view videos from a first-...

The assessment of damage to indoor cultural heritage, in particular by pollutants, is nowadays a major and growing concern for curators and conservators. Nevertheless, although many museums have been widely investigated in Europe, the effects of particulate matter and gaseous pollutants in museums under tropical and subtropical climates and with different economic realities are still unclear. A...

EN) The paper documents the creation in 2004 of real-world stereographic panoramas at the UNESCO world heritage listed site Angkor, in Cambodia. The project builds upon the history of the panorama as a medium of virtual travel that has existed from the eighteenth century. The significance of the current project is the way in which real-world (as opposed to computer generated) stereographic pano...