The paper deals with the deployment of XML-related technologies in Cultural Heritage applications concerning the encoding of temporal semantics in the digital version of historical documents. Since written sources have often the same importance as material evidence in medieval archaeology, our approach can be applied to the development of tools for the support of archaeological research. In pre...

Digitizing heritage monuments is a process of spatial data acquisition, geometry modelling, digital archiving and web-based representation. Moreover, there are several survey and digitizing techniques working and developing such as traditional manual methods, topographic methods, photogrammetric methods and scanning methods. The most popular on application and developing is 3D laser scanning te...

Green building is a hot topic today. The place making and urban cultures are also important issues in postindustrial society. The industrial heritage renovation projects provide a research opportunity in combination with both aspects. This paper tries to shed new light on this issue by interdisciplinary methods, to study six Guangzhou industrial heritage renovation projects, giving aesthetic va...

4BSTRACT The paper deals with the deployment of XML-related technologies in Cultural Heritage applications concerning the :ncoding of temporal semantics in the digital version of historical documents. Since written sources have often the same importance as material evidence in mcdicval archaeology, our approach can be applied to the development of tools for the support of archaeological researc...

Recent European policy papers call for the consideration of human values in design information technology. Value Sensitive Design (VSD) provides a framework systematically accounting technical artefacts. This paper examines how distribution power within socio-technical ecosystems poses challenge application VSD. It identifies four crucial factors determining effect on VSD: level decentralisatio...

On August 12, 2010 the Clark County Historical Society unveiled a permanent exhibit entitled "The Archaeology of Clark County" in the Heritage Center of Clark County, located at 117 South Fountain Avenue, Springfield, Ohio. This exhibit contains numerous artifacts, which for many years had been on display in the museum in Memorial Hall, the former home of the Clark County Historical Society. Ab...

Dye analysis can considerably enhance our understanding of the provenance materials used in production historical objects. Knowledge individual constituents any dyestuff not only facilitates its identification, but also provides important information regarding rate photo-degradation dye’s components; this turn support decisions conservation and display. This Technical Brief outlines principal a...