Our work is in the field of the support systems to museum visits and access to cultural heritage. Our goal is to design a recommendation system implemented on mobile devices adaptable to the user’s profile and sensitive to its context, to improve the user experience and help build his visits to the museum based on his preferences and constraints. MOTS-CLÉS : systèmes de recommandation, web séma...

The conservation, spread, comprehension and recreation of traditional culture heritages is one of the main purpose of the National Ethnographic Museum in Bulgaria. As other cultural and scientific heritage institutions, it begins to use new information technologies and strategies for providing access to its cultural heritage treasures. This paper aims to present digital libraries with multimedi...

Between January and May 1995, the Getty Art History Information Program (AHIP) and the Consortium for the Computer Interchange of Museum Information (CIMI) held a series of three meetings under the rubric Points of View, to examine underlying assumptions about museum information, to study users' demands on data, to explore how museum staff respond to users' requests, and to consider potential a...

Vast amount of multimedia especially in the cultural heritage domain needed a special data model to cater the need of both collection management and digital multimedia content. Multimedia database for cultural heritage application are currently active research activities, however limited research has been done in the local context. The intention of this research is to design a data model for mu...

In Spain, the birth of interest in the nation’s industrial heritage dates from the s and occurred alongside the process of deindustrialization. Policies concerning derelict industrial sites have shifted gradually from destruction to preservation, rehabilitation, and enhancement, and industrial heritage enhancement projects are now widespread in the country. However, a clear mismatching has ...

This paper explores the applicability of the software prototype developed for personalized access to semantically enriched art collection of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam in a different environment – city rather than museum. As a case study we take Amsterdam, a World Heritage City, i.e. a city that includes urban areas designated as World Heritage (WH). This is the first step towards turning our...

This paper discusses seminal contributions by and current open challenges for CSCW in the study of cultural heritage practices. It provides an overview of key issues relating to social and cooperative interactions particularly around the design and use of technology at heritage sites that have emerged in CSCW, and pertaining the conduct of visitors, the design and evaluation of interactive inst...

Porto, the institutional repository of the Politecnico di Torino, is provided by the University Library and the IT-Services. The aim is to enable open access to all the world. Please share with us how this access benefits you. Your story matters. The introduction of new technologies to enhance the visiting museum experience is not a novelty. A large variety of interactive systems are nowadays a...

RAMA (Remote Access to Museum Archives) software permits simultaneous access to documentary multimedia databases of European museums. The challenge awaiting specialists in museums, universities, and cultural institutions when the cost of telecommunication go down, for the general public to access cultural heritage information, will lie in the use of common standards by the museum community. RAM...

The use of the term "virtual" is commonly associated with the idea of an extension of reality. Similarly, the expression "virtual museum" is usually adopted to mean a process of duplication of a physical museum and its objects that is enabled by information technologies. Therefore, "virtual museum" has become a useful synonym for multimedia products and websites capable of providing new and fre...