This paper describes the Digital Oulu Cultural Database, a versatile multimedia database of the local culture of the City of Oulu. An XML schema was developed to capture the metadata information of a culture object, which is then represented in form of one or more media objects of different media types. The contents of the database can be browsed with a web interface adapted for mobile devices ...

This study examined intergenerational communication schemas by investigating young adults' cognitive representations of communication with older adults in Taiwan. Forty-one Taiwanese college students described conversations with an older adult in response to a variety of interviewer prompts. Transcripts were read and content analyzed by the first two authors. To capture the characteristics of t...

With the current explosion of data, retrieving and integrating information from various sources is a critical problem. The designer has to specify a mediated schema providing a homogeneous view on the sources. In this paper, we report on an initial work toward automatically generating mappings between elements in the sources and in the mediated schema. Information sources we are interested in a...

Many important Cultural Heritage sites have been studied over long periods of time by different means of technical equipment, methods and intentions by different researchers. This has led to huge amounts of heterogeneous “traditional” datasets and formats. The rising popularity of 3D models in the field of Cultural Heritage in recent years has brought additional data formats and makes it even m...

introduction: although many researches showed that there are several psychiatric comorbidities in people suffering from migraine headache, few studies investigated the relationship between deep psychopathological structures and headache variables. the purpose of the present study was to elucidate the relationship between early maladaptive schemas and three dimensions of headache impact, pain in...

The quality and the quantity of contextual information found in the descriptive metadata associated with digital representations of cultural objects are frequently inadequate for assuring that users will understand the nature of both the original object that has been digitally preserved, and the digital representation itself. This paper proposes and defines a framework for ensuring that relevan...