The culture of an organization can be grown and disseminated by infusing it in the artifacts of the organization. These artifacts can be physical things, informational objects, or conceptual artifacts. As people internal and external to the organization encounter these artifacts, they also encounter the culture. This paper focuses on conceptual artifacts—such as stories, metaphors, activities, ...

In this preliminary study, an Organizational Culture Scale was developed to assess cultural artifacts according to Schein's typology (1985). It includes a set of cultural artifacts to measure the extent to which an organization is more or less traditional. A total of 249 managers from a range of different companies responded to the items. Preliminary analysis yielded a one-dimensional scale wit...

Social media platforms are increasingly looked at as means to investigate social phenomena like collective events, issues or causes. Digital methods – techniques exclusively focused on online data and shaped by the environment hosting these have become part parcel of investigations, often approaching hybrid assemblages users, infrastructures, algorithms. In its ‘online groundness’, this type di...

This essay outlines one way to conceptualise the relation between cultural identity, collective memory, and artifacts. It starts by characterising notion of identity as our membership groups briefly explores narrative (section 2). Next, it presents how human memory is conceptualised on an individual level 3) then distinguishes small-scale large-scale 4). Having described argues that materialise...

The main aims of this research are the design and implementation of a multilayered and interactive geomatic map of the cultural heritage of Tuscia, one of the richest and most complex cultural areas of Italy, thanks to the presence of different civilizations, from Etruscans and Romans to the Middle Age. Its cultural heritage is very rich, valuable and above all diversified because including tan...

Over the last few decades, computing researchers have developed a wealth of new systems to maintain particular cultural resources. Computing platforms allow people to access high-resolution images of ancient cave paintings and Googleartwork; 3D scanning systems digitize Michelangelo’s sculptures and Pompeii’s remains [Levoy et al. 2000]; and haptic devices allow users to touch and feel ancient ...

Cultural relic is the carrier of information, such as production, life, science and technology, art and so on. However, due to natural and man-made reasons, artifacts are often destroyed. Excavation site is the most common variety of cultural relics, the need for cultural relics repair. Because the artifacts are generally made on the rotating disk, so the object of this study is the rotating de...