Online computer museums have large educational, cultural and aesthetic significance. They promote preservation of our historical and cultural heritage. Edward Proydakov‟s Virtual Computer Museum launched in 1997 (http://www.computer-museum.ru) is the most representative and professional one in Russia. The unique feature of this project is active participation of outstanding scientists, engineer...

The National Research Council of Canada (NRC) has collaborated with numerous Canadian and international heritage institutions on the development of a complete suite of 3D imaging technologies for archival quality imaging, analysis and display of 3D models of museum objects and heritage sites including ancient crypt and grottos. The technology includes high-resolution laser scanner systems for r...

This research explores the interaction between internal heritage personnel and the public over social media. Focusing on the phenomenon of crowdsourcing and what it means to those individuals involved with it, this paper aims to understand: to what extent, and in what circumstances, can crowdsourcing help heritage professionals protect, preserve and promote National heritage? To answer this que...

The paper focuses on current practice regarding the application of mobile AR technologies for enabling learning in the context of cultural heritage. It also presents ARmuseum, an application developed for the Museum of Industrial Olive Oil Production in Lesvos (MBEL). Finally, it discusses a number of issues related to the evaluation of mobile AR applications for cultural institutions. Keywords...

Heritage language education is distinct from the field of second language acquisition due to having the concept of identity always at its core (Leeman, Rabin, & Roman-Mendoza, 2012). This paper draws on this concept and presents an action research study focusing on the teaching and learning of Greek as a heritage language in the context of Supplementary Education in the UK. The main aim of the ...

Protection and preservation of our cultural and literary historical and documentary heritage are particularly relevant today. The paper presents methods for creating digital resources of historical artifacts related to the Balkan war. Special attention is paid to the process of 3D scanning of objects. The methodology will be used in building an electronic archive and Virtual Museum.

In this paper we present the CHIP demonstrator aimed at helping users to explore the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam collection both online and inside the museum. Cultural heritage data from various external sources is integrated to provide an enriched semantic knowledge structure. The resulting RDF/OWL graph is the basis for CHIP main functionality for recommendations, search and personalized interaction.

This paper seeks to examine aspects of tangentiality connecting heritage tourism goals, on the one hand, and museum architecture, other. It does so through specific angle communication, understood as a complex process that fluctuates, very large extent, at level external conventional institutional practice. The assumption is determining factors are in fact tangential nature that, contrariwise, ...

Heritage objects can represent personal and collective values and affect self-perceptions and ideas about others. For these reasons their management is highly important, especially regarding who exercises ownership through access and control of interpretation. Conservation is a particularly significant process because it necessitates the determination of object values and often involves direct ...

This paper presents solutions for both museum exhibitions and mobile guides using multimodal mixed reality interfaces based on open standards that can be highly customisable and intuitive to attract and engage a broad spectrum of users. For indoor exhibitions, some of the most characteristic technologies will be presented to demonstrate how multi-modal presentations and interactions of three-di...