With the turn towards the digital age, a growing number of institutions in the GLAM (Galleries, Archives, Museums and Libraries) sector started to identify a need for digitising their different collections placing them online with goals to preserve and exhibit them in the digital environment. After the initial efforts to develop policies, methodologies and best practices in transferring the col...

The challenge of multiple narratives at cultural heritage sites is explained. Background and references are given to Cultural Heritage Tourism Theory. A solution is proposed, involving different strategies for different people at different sites and time. Open questions from both the nontechnical and technical angles are proposed. Author

This paper describes preliminary conclusions from a long-term study of cultural heritage digital collections. First, those features most important to cultural heritage digital libraries are described. Second, we list those components that have proven most useful in boot-strapping new collections.

The goal of our research in Cultural Heritage is to create applications on advanced devices, in order to provide engaging experiences that can foster people interest in Cultural Heritage. In this paper, we highlight some features of the developed applications to show how creativity, new communication channels and End-User Development (EUD) are used to reach our research goal.

Mobile augmented reality is recommended to be implemented at cultural heritage sites to enhance visitor’s experience. Visitors enable to learn informally about the cultural items, values, and history of the sites while enjoying their visit. However, at our initial study, it is found that such mobile augmented reality has not been implemented atcultural heritage sites in South-East Asia region i...

Digitised Cultural Heritage (CH) items usually have short descriptions and lack rich contextual information. Wikipedia articles, on the contrary, include in-depth descriptions and links to related articles, which motivate the enrichment of CH items with information from Wikipedia. In this paper we explore the feasibility of finding matching articles in Wikipedia for a given Cultural Heritage it...

When a head of state or minister signs a cultural exchange agreement with a colleague from another nation, a collective shudder goes up the spines of the conservators and curators of museums, and collections of art and cultural heritage in those respective countries. It is not that they are against cultural exchange. Far from it, the opportunity to share collections and experience with other au...

The CIPHER project was set up in April 2002 as a thirty month project supported by the European Union. The project aims to give the public new ways of accessing cultural heritage information from around Europe using new technologies. These technologies are intended to help organise knowledge and cultural heritage narratives. The technology helps to present these narratives on the internet and p...

This chapter analyses how cultural heritage destinations should evolve to keep pace with changes in the demand for cultural tourism. The empirical evidence shows that the most important heritage destinations suffer from a misalignment of their value propositions with respect to the new needs of cultural tourists. These types of gaps can be filled only by understanding the features and evolution...

The newspapers and popular media constantly draw attention to an incredible rise in the amount of information especially through the Internet. Knight-Ridder News, for instance, recently cited an IBM study claiming that only seven percent of all corporate data is ever used. The amount of knowledge in great libraries and museums that is regularly used is less. Some major collections have as much ...