My paper addresses how the past can be understood as experiential by exploring the interaction between the mobile body and the structures of the built environment. My central argument is that in order for digital cultural heritage to include the social context it needs to consider bodies and patterns of movement in relation to physical architecture. In this paper a model is proposed for articul...

In addition, large digital libraries become available and huge amounts of multimedia documents are accessible over the Internet with the increase of communications bandwidth and storage capacities. By mainly referring to our ongoing project called “Digital Silk Roads”, this paper presents the concept and some issues to utilize advanced information technology for safeguarding, preserving, revita...

The paper tackles with the challenges and the opportunities to establish a training course for digital curators in an Italian university, namely the University of Turin. The authors give a broad perspective of the role of the digital curator who is a figure that adds to the technical, communicative, managerial and legal skills the ability to embed these skills in more complex cultural ecosystem...

This paper reports on completed work carried out in the framework of an EU-funded project aimed at (a) developing a bilingual collection of cultural texts in Greek and Bulgarian, (b) creating a number of accompanying resources that will facilitate study of the primary texts across languages, and (c) integrating a system which aims to provide web-enabled and speech-enhanced access to digitized b...

Some researchers have begun projects to model Japanese cultural heritage objects. Some of Japanese cultural heritage objects are large, but their shapes may be intricate. Thus, the measurement becomes difficult and the large data set must be handled. We propose a new geometric and photometric integration framework of range images of those objects. First, we propose a new method which integrates...

Public involvement in defining and interpreting cultural heritage offers many benefits, including improved learning opportunities for individuals and a broader base of knowledge about art and heritage. This knowledge can in turn be used for better, smarter, information provision in the future. This paper proposes how to capture, analyse and present cultural information from different viewpoints...

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While the international community has acted forcefully since World War II to protect sites and objects of cultural or historic significance on Earth, little attention has been paid to the same kinds of sites and objects in space. There are important ethical and scholarly reasons for wanting to preserve sites and in situ objects in off-Earth contexts from destruction or commercial exploitation. ...

In this paper, we describe preliminary findings of semistructured interviews with eight testers of the Walk1916 mobile walking tour of the Easter Rising in Dublin, Ireland. While some LAMs have begun to integrate mobile technology into their suite of tools to enhance the cultural heritage experience, most studies align the value of these tools with existing institutional measures of impact. Und...

Cultural heritage is one of the most valuable resources that describe the creative power of mankind. In this article we describe a total number of 96 experiments that have been submitted as contributions to the three subtasks of the Cultural Heritage in CLEF pilot evaluation lab. At the core of the majority of these experiments lies a prototype implementation for semantic enrichment based on DB...