Big data has huge commercial value and potential. Under the background of big data, a heritage site is faced with a number of questions and challenges such as, how to accelerate industrial innovation, benign competition and the creation of new business value. Based on the analysis of service data from the national archaeological site and park, Yuan Ming Yuan, this paper investigates the common ...

Cultural heritage around the globe suffers from wars, natural disasters and human negligence. The importance of cultural heritage documentation is well recognized and there is an increasing pressure to document our heritage both nationally and internationally. This has alerted international organizations to the need for issuing guidelines describing the standards for documentation. Charters, re...

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...

Provides an overview of the main ethical and associated political-economic aspects of the preservation of born-digital content and the digitization of analogue content for purposes of preservation. The term ‘heritage’ is used broadly to include scientific and scholarly publications and data. While the preservation of heritage is generally seen as inherently ‘good’, this activity implies the exe...

Debates about the socially inclusionary potential of heritage have to date principally focused on heritage sites and museums. Relatively little attention has been paid to the wider Cultural Built Heritage (CBH) that surrounds us in our everyday lives. This paper starts with a brief theoretical exploration of the social role of heritage and the key policy background. Then, based on an understand...

In 2015 in Flanders (Belgium) an ErfgoedApp (heritage app) was launched. It was developed by Vidinoti and FARO with PixLive. The program allows to construct and use Augmented Reality applications, linked to heritage items, collections and institutions. In 2015–2016 master students in archaeology, arts sciences and archivists experimented with the app, as part of the course work. They managed to...

Cultural heritage is a main contributor to tourism development. These two activities heavily rely on the communication process for attracting visitors and to provide them with a satisfactory experience, which can be enhanced through effective heritage interpretation. This paper argues that there are opportunities for the application of e-Services in the delivery of heritage interpretation throu...

In this paper we propose a new method for rendering crowds of virtual humans with dynamically deformed skeletons with levels of detail using two simple caching schemes for animations and geometry. We show how the virtual heritage project ERATO pushed for these innovations as we did not find any off-theshelf products for the purpose. We also show how to create a large variety in appearance using...

This paper is a survey of evaluation mechanisms that may be specifically suitable for virtual heritage environments and also to some extent for social learning environments. It suggests in particular new terms and criteria to assess the contextual appropriateness of various evaluation methods. From two working examples it also reviews issues and lessons learnt from current ongoing research. The...