The Web publishing paradigm of Linked Data has been gaining traction in the cultural heritage sector: libraries, archives and museums. At first glance, the principles of Linked Data seem simple enough. However experienced Web developers, designers and architects who attempt to put these ideas into practice often find themselves having to digest and understand debates about Web architecture, the...

Managing information related to cultural heritage sites is an important task and much work has been devoted to developing special purpose document management systems. These systems are able to store and retrieve large amounts of documents; however, while this is adequate for some purposes, it is not sufficient for research and conservation work. Researchers need to determine relationships betwe...

Museums often lack the possibility to present archaeological or cultural heritage sites in a realistic and interesting way. Thus are proposing a new way to show augmented reality applications of cultural heritage sites at remote places like museums. In the exhibition space large wall-filling photographs of the real site are superimposed with interactive contextual annotations like 3D reconstruc...

Museums and other cultural heritage spaces are social. Personalization, while accommodating diversity, tends to isolate because it focuses on the content delivered more than the sensorial experience of being in a place with others. We deconstruct the concept of personalization separating the content from the context to introduce social engagement through tangible interaction. We discuss the imp...

Optical measurement systems were originally developed for industrial applications. Due to their versatility of use and “touchless“ non-invasive method of working they have also been employed for many years in the field of restoration, conservation and preservation of cultural heritage. The capabilities of a variety of optical measuring methods e.g. photogrammetry, laser triangulation and interf...

Large numbers of cultural heritage items are now archived digitally along with accompanying metadata and are available to anyone with internet access. This information could be enriched by adding links to resources that provide background information about the items. Techniques have been developed for automatically adding links to Wikipedia to text but the methods are general and not designed f...

Cultural heritage and digital libraries are two closely related disciplines that traditionally benefit by the application of innovative information technologies. Currently, Semantic Web research has also grown satisfyingly mature to enable achieving tangible results and added-value in both these knowledgeintensive domains, in spite of the critical challenges of knowledge acquisition and reasoni...

The idea of this paper is to introduce a new “generation” of experimental educational integrated methodology, which is based on the presentation of cultural values in a three-dimensional environment – virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR). The proposed methodology is aimed at the gradual creation of a new branch in the multidisciplinary collaborative learning environment as a part of ...

Middle Eastern countries are suddenly confronted with the problem of a severe loss of architectural heritage, which is the material manifestation of their own cultural inheritance and thus that of their identity, particularly under conditions of a sudden, rapid, radical and haphazard way of transformation as imposed over a society and its cultural geography by global impacts. This paper aims to...

Large amounts of cultural heritage material are nowadays available through online digital library portals. Most of these cultural items have short descriptions and lack rich contextual information. The PATHS project has developed experimental enrichment services. As a proof of concept, this paper presents a web service prototype which allows independent content providers to enrich cultural heri...