Mobile phones are personal devices, and as such there is an increasing need for personalised, context-aware applications. This paper describes DCEF (Dynamic Code Execution Framework), a framework which allows applications to securely execute dynamically loaded code, providing new functionality such as client-side personalisation. DCEF ensures the user’s personal information remains safe while e...

Territorial communication aims at giving visibility and recognizability to a particular territory by emphasizing its distinctive aspects. It does not only supply information, but it has also a persuasive function, exciting interest and curiosity in the message receivers. In this vision, the use of innovative communication channels, such as Webbased Geographical Information Systems, as well as m...

Technology today provides exciting new possibilities for creating more appealing museum experiences, since we can exploit the surprise factor of innovative interaction styles to create an engaging experience that facilitates the learning process. This research was based on extensive in-site observation as well as surveys conducted at the scene, and it relates to a cultural interactive exhibitio...

The article considers the peculiarities of formation and development museology in Ternopil second half XX - early XXI century. author analyzes events factors that played an important role raising museum affairs city. purpose is to explore origin features institutions Ternopil. Determining activity regional local lore art museums are traced. It characterized contribution individuals, such as ass...

iJuanderer AR: An Augmented Reality-based Gamified Local Tourism and Cultural Heritage Promotion Preservation aims to add museum setups using augmented reality (AR) technology, improves visitor experience remote visiting of museums through a companion website. Its first phase, or exploratory phase features Tarlac its provincial showcases tourism information for dining, accommodation, heritage s...

In this study we consider wether, and to what extent, additional semantics in the form of Linked Data can help diversifying search results. We undertake this study in the domain of cultural heritage. The data consists of collection data of the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam together with a number of relevant external vocabularies, which are all published as Linked Data. We apply an existing graph search...

Museums are playing a more active role in modern societies beyond preserving a society’s cultural heritage. They have become an important learning environment and some of them even a tourist attraction. Traditional storytelling aid for museums consisting of texts and labels may not be personalized to fit each individual personal taste and are static sources of information. This paper introduces...

It is desirable to the distribute data and knowledge of a huge amount of cultural heritage and to make them available readily to people, but the distributed, heterogeneous and autonomous nature of the databases of digital museums gives rise to the challenge of achieving the best retrieval results in cross-system searching. To make this difficult task tractable, we analyze semantic heterogeneiti...

Europeana is a single access point to millions of books, paintings, films, museum objects and archival records that have been digitized throughout Europe. The data.europeana.eu Linked Open Data pilot dataset contains open metadata on approximately 2.4 million texts, images, videos and sounds gathered by Europeana. All metadata are released under Creative Commons CC0 and therefore dedicated to t...

In the wake of growing interest in history Russian avant-garde, leading museums become initiators, organizers and partners large-scale exhibition projects dedicated to both individual personalities avant-garde era iconic cultural institutions. this regard, it is also important understand how museum community Russia reacts given trend turning heritage era, regional are involved process. The arti...