Short Papers - Saturday 03 November 2012
| 08:00-09:00 | Digital Data Acquisition Technologies and On-site and remotely sensed data collection in CH | Demetra Room | ||
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| 18 | Computer Vision tools for 3D modelling in Archaeology | M. Lo Brutto*, P. Meli | Show/Hide | |
| Dept. of Civil, Environmental, Aerospace and Materials Engineering University of Palermo, Viale delle Scienze, 90128 Palermo, Italy (mauro.lobrutto, paola.meli)@unipa.it In archaeological Cultural Heritage study the 3D modelling has become a very useful process to obtain indispensable data for documentation and visualization. Nowadays the continuous request to achieve photorealistic 3D models has been leading to test different techniques and methodologies able to speeding up both data acquisition and data processing phase. There are many examples of surveys conducted with the use of range-based and image-based techniques, but, in the last few years, the scientific research has been increasingly moving towards the automatic procedures using Computer Vision approach to reduce time during data processing. Computer Vision approach offers a great opportunity for archaeological survey since it can be very easily used by existing Computer Vision interfaces such as3D web services and open source or low cost software. The aim of this work is to evaluate the performance offered by Computer Vision interfaces for 3D survey of archaeological ruins using some 3D web-service tools and a low cost software like PhotoScan package. Some tests have been performed to analyze the geometric accuracy of 3D models obtained by 3D web-service tools and PhotoScan package through the comparison with a 3D model achieved by laser scanning survey. |
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| 19 | UAV SYSTEMS FOR PHOTOGRAMMETRIC DATA ACQUISITION OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES | M. Lo Brutto a, *, A. Borruso b, A. D’Argenio b | Show/Hide | |
| aDept. of Civil, Environmental, Aerospace and Materials Engineering, University of Palermo, Italy mauro.lobrutto@unipa.it bConsorzio Ticonzero, Palermo, Italy (aborruso, adargenio)@ticonzero.net The use of UAV systems for surveying archaeological sites is becoming progressively more common due to the considerable potential in terms of rapidity of survey, costs and accuracy. The paper presents the first results of the photogrammetric survey of the archaeological site of Himera in Sicily (Italy) using by UAV systems. A complete documentation of the site through the production of a DSM and an ortho image were carried out. The research further evaluated twodifferent image processing workflows: a typical photogrammetric approach and a computer vision approach. An ortho imageof the archaeological site with a very high resolution was obtained. |
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| 22 | THE “TERME DEL CORALLO” IN LIVORNO, ITALY, A CONTRIBUTION TO TRY GOING BEHIND THE ABANDON | G. Verdiani, V. Fantini | Show/Hide | |
| Facoltà di Architettura di Firenze, via della Mattonaia, 14 Firenze, 50100 Italy giorgio.verdiani@unifi.it , valentinafantini@virgilio.it In Livorno, along the Mediterranean sea, in Italy, there is a terrific case of abandon, a historical monument made of fine art element is left to the complete decay. The name of the place is “Terme del Corallo” and at its beginning it was a bath area exploiting the salt waters. After its first abandon, no serious efforts were done in years to come behind this situation, the poor and slow moves towards the restoration were stopped and slowed down by inefficiencies and infinite political times. The monument is now on the edge of its collapse, showing a full failure of cultural preservation. According to this visible shame, a compact, almost viral, approach was started one year ago, entering the area in official (and less official) moments, a photogrammetric, photographical and direct survey was taken to document the condition of this monument. The further research was aimed to integrate and enhance the existing (poor) survey drawings and developing a restoration hypothesis to recover to a solid, realistic and effective life the whole monument. This paper will present the work made and the procedures, processing and results came out from this direct approach to this badly abandoned monument. The aim is to put in evidence this wrong situation, and to promote a sensitization about the correct choice to be taken for this monument before this rare artistic place from the XX Century will get completely lost. |
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| 49 | An Integrated Methodology for the Digitization, Survey and Visualization of Santa Maria Patirion’s Church | C. Ruggieroa, A. Galloa,*, A. Liob, A. Zappanib, G. Fortunatob, M. Muzzupappaa | Show/Hide | |
| aDepartrment of Mechanical Engineering, University of Calabria, 87036 Rende (CS), Italy carm.ruggiero@gmail.com, alessandro.gallo@unical.it, muzzupappa@unical.it bDepartment of Civil Engineering, University of Calabria, 87036 Rende (CS), Italy alio@unical.it, antzapp@live.it, giuseppe.fortunato@unical.it In this paper we present a methodology for the digitization, the survey and the visualization of a 3D model built from a large scale object that combines the use of different hardware, software and geometric data. The results are a detailed virtual model used for the documentation of the preservation status of the artefact and a simplified 3D model for the navigation with an immersive stereoscopic visualization system. |
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| 72 | DOCUMENTING A UNESCO WH-SITE IN CYPRUS WITH COMPLEMENTARY TECHNIQUES | Andreas Georgopoulos | Show/Hide | |
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| 71 | Visitor Movement and Tracking Techniques. A visitor-Sourced Methodology FOR the Interpretation of Archaeological Sites | A. Chrysanthi | Show/Hide | |
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| 2 | Modular System of Sensors for Monitoring of Museums’ Internal Environment | J. Valach*a, K. Juliša, P. Štefcováb | Show/Hide | |
| a Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics AS CR, v.v.i., Prosecká 76, 190 00 Prague 9, Czech Republic, valach@itam.cas.cz b National Museum, Václavskénáměstí 68, 115 79 Prague 1, Czech Republic, petra_stefcova@nm.cz The paper outlines basic concepts of the system for indoor climate monitoring being currently developed in a four-year project. The project concentrates on building system of sensors, the related infrastructure for communication between these sensors and the server for centralized data storage and processing. The components of the planned system are highly modular for adjustment to specific requirements of given collection. The project’s aim is to provide basis for remote monitoring of indoor climate and environment of exhibitions and depositories of museums, galleries, archives, etc. situated in historical buildings like castles, chateaus, town halls, where the protection of the building limits measures for indoor climate optimization. Finally the expected outcomes envisage the development of specialized sensors mainly for pest control and development of portable version of data sensing units for supervision of environmental parameters of collection during transport. |
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| 09:00-10:30 | 2D and 3D Data Capture Methodologies and Data Processing in CH | Demetra Room | ||
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| 15 | PRELIMINARY IDEAS FOR A PROJECT ON CULTURAL HERITAGE:"HEVA"-DIGITAL RESOURCES OPTIMIZATION FOR THE ENHANCEMENT OF CULTURAL HERITAGE | Fernández Martín, J.J.a, GarcíaFernández, J. a, Delgado del Hoyo, F.J. b, Finat Codes, J.b | Show/Hide | |
| aLaboratory of Architectural Photogrammetry, T. College of Architecture, University of Valladolid juanjo@ega.uva.es, jorge.garcia.fernandez@uva.es bMoBiVaP, Modeling, Biomechanics, Advanced Visualization Heritage Group. University of Valladolid frandelhoyo@gmail.com, jfinat@agt.uva.es The Cultural Heritage documentation by itself is meaningless if it does not allow to create wealth and provide values to society. In the last years, the number of digital contents related to cultural heritage resources is growing in a way that it very difficult to search reliable information. Thanks to Internet they can be easily published and distributed but there are three main problems: 1) the quality of the resources is not well evaluated or tagged; 2) the resources are fragmented across several non-linked repositories; 3) most of the resources are not adapted to different kinds of devices and users. These problems are more remarkable in point clouds and three dimensional models digitalized at high resolution, to achieve a higher level of detail because they are too heavy for visualization, transmission and representation. The present statement of intentions aims to develop a project –HEVA: HEritageVAlue– for creating an effective methodology to simplify and improve the exploitation and transmission of cultural heritage documentation in the three most relevant fields: culture, education and economy. The main goal of the project is to reformulate the objective of cultural heritage documentation from a sustainable perspective, linking the efforts to the achievements and optimizing the processes. At the same time, the project will create synergies between multiple agents involved in documentation, allowing an intelligent diffusion of cultural heritage such that heritage can reach interested people, people who really want to be reached. |
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| 16 | A PHOTOGRAMMETRIC ANALYSIS OF CUNEIFORM TABLETS FOR THE PURPOSE OF DIGITAL RECONSTRUCTION | A. Lewis, E. Ch'ng | Show/Hide | |
| IBM Visual and Spatial Technology Centre, Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT (axl148, e.chng)@bham.ac.uk Despite the advances made in the recording and cataloguing of cuneiform tablets, there is still much work to be done in the field of cuneiform reconstruction. The processes employed to rebuild cuneiform fragments still rely on glue and putty, with manual matching of fragments from catalogues or individual collections. The reconstruction process is hindered by inadequate information about the size and shape of fragments, and the inaccessibility of the original fragments makes finding information difficult in some collections. Most catalogue data associated with cuneiform tablets concerns the content of the text, and not the physical appearance of complete or fragmented tablets. This paper shows how photogrammetric analysis of cuneiform tablets can be used to retrieve physical information directly from source materials without the risk of human error. An initial scan of 8000 images from the CDLI database has already revealed interesting new information about the tablets held in cuneiform archives, and offered new avenues for research within the cuneiform reconstruction process. |
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| 48 | A Complete Morphological Study of the Right Hand of Bronzo “A” di Riace | M. Muzzupappa, A. Gallo*, R. M. Mattanò, C. Ruggiero, F. Bruno | Show/Hide | |
| Departrment of Mechanical Engineering, University of Calabria, 87036 Rende (CS), Italy muzzupappa@unical.it, alessandro.gallo@unical.it, r.mattano@unical.it, carm.ruggiero@gmail.com, f.bruno@unical.it The Riace Bronzes represent one of the most important masterpieces of Magna Graecia archaeology, and of the whole world artistic heritage. The Bronzes, other than for their exquisite workmanship, are also interesting for the mysteries which surround their history. The countless hypotheses about their identity, origin and authors are supported by many studies of historical and iconographic nature. This paper describes a complete morphological study of the Riace Bronzes in order to provide to the archaeologists some objective data about the shape of the most interesting and controversial part of the Bronzes: the right hand of Bronzo “A”. This study aims to provide a series of geometrical data which could help to identify the object that the A Bronze was gripping. This questions is, in fact, one of the fundamental steps for the individuation of the Bronze A’s identity. |
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| 09:00-10:30 | 2D and 3D GIS and Cultural Heritage Management & Monitoring | Demetra Room | ||
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| 4 | Neolithic settlement in Bylany: taking a new look at old digs | P. Květina*, M. Končelová, Brzobohatá, R. Šumberová, J. Řídký, I. Pavlů | Show/Hide | |
| Institute of Archaeology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Letenská 4, 118 01 Prague, Czech Republic – (kvetina, koncelova, brzobohata, sumberova, ridky, pavlu)@arup.cas.cz The aim of the project is to apply 3D scanning technology to create a virtual museum providing a picture of the Neolithic culture, based on the example of the settlement in Bylany (Czech Republic), dating from the 5th – 6th millennium B.C. The main parameter of the applied research is to set up a methodology for recording and presenting archaeological finds digitally. The basic technology is optical 3D scanning of artefacts that exactly reflect the 3D surface geometry and will bring new presentation possibilities. Acquired digital records can also serve as well as for research and educational purposes on all academic levels. The project’s most important output consists in a virtual museum on the web of the Neolithic settlement area. Moreover, the open library of 3D scans will integrate a thematic GIS map of the Bylany site and its virtual model showing different forms of the immovable heritage (i.e., houses, circle enclosures and villages). |
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| 7 | How does digital programs help to understand urban evolution: the study case of a Portuguese Mediterranean Village | M. Pacheco, T. Heitor | Show/Hide | |
| IST, Instituto Superior Técnico – Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Av. Rovisco Pais 1049-001 Lisbon, Portugal (mbatistapacheco@hotmail.com, teresa@civil.ist.utl.pt) The cultural heritage of fisherman's town of Fuseta, on the southern Portugal, is an interesting example of Mediterranean vernacular architecture. Totally built in just one-step at the turn of the 19th to 20th century, the historic centre presents a homogeneous urban fabric characterized by a typology of house covered by vaults’ terraces and pyramidal roofs strategically located. Nowadays, the urban network extrapolates the original historic centre to the involving areas, with a demarcated rural structure. This paper aims to reflect about the contribution of space syntax descriptive model, an alpha numeric’s calculation software (Depthmap Software), based on visual and spatial networks’ analysis, to the study of the urban evolution. The almost inexistence of bibliography related to the urban history of this territory, enforces the use of alternative methods to increase the architectural morphology’s theories and other theoretical approaches focused on the reading of urban territories. The Depthmap modelling of the town’s digital cartographic allowed the production of a maps that expresses parameters and urban concepts universally defined. The main question consists in how deep this new urban modelling information is and how useful are these maps or they just show evidences. In conclusion, the appliance of the Depth map Software on the study of the Fuseta’s urbanism permitted to do a reliable parallel between the unknown urban characteristics of the 20th century beginning with the well-known structure of today, at same level of measurements, detailing, information and parameterization. |
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| 57 | GIS AND 3D MODELS AS SUPPORT TO DOCUMENTATION AND PLANNING OF THE BAKU HISTORICAL CENTRE (REPUBLIC OF AZERBAIJAN) | Laura Baratina, Sara Bertozzia, ElvioMorettia, Michele Spinellab | Show/Hide | |
| aDiSBEF - University of Urbino, Campus Scientifico, „E. Mattei“, 60129 Urbino, Italy {laura.baratin,sara.bertozzi,elvio.moretti}@uniurb.it bGESPs.r.l. Italy, spinella@gest.it The walled city of Baku, Icherisheher has been described as one of the best examples of a city that has retained its historical stratigraphy in over a thousand years, where the different influences and its evolution in time may be appreciated. In realising the Master Plan of the historical city, many problems were solved with different information technologies (GIS, DEM, DTM, etc.) for the survey and data mapping management during all the phases of the project. Initially the analysis was addressed to systematic reading of the documents collected during the iconographic study, verifying the process of deterioration that the historic city had suffered during various periods from the Khans to the Tsarist domain and from the Republic of Azerbaijan to the Soviet period through to its independence. The entire central part of the historic city was analysed, including not only on its special architectural and urban monuments, but even minor buildings, which are in part still intact, used as a basis for a digital map created in order to focus on Baku’s historical evolution. A three-dimensional model of the historic centre of Baku was then produced as a basis not only for virtual navigation in real time, but as additional support for planning studies and to better understand the principles of various design choices. The request to produce a model in VRML format addressed the choice of better modelling methods. The combination of these different technologies and their application in the analysis of historical cities led to further considerations on data acquisition systems, standardization of formats, the use of survey instruments and the use of different software, etc., all fundamental elements to the define their correct use. |
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| 66 | GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM FOR THE CULTURAL HERITAGE AND PROTECTED LANDSCAPE OF REGIONE TOSCANA | R. Costantinia,*, L. Angelia, R. Ferraria, L. Innocentia, M. DelBuonob | Show/Hide | |
| aConsorzio LaMMA, via Madonna del Piano 10, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy– (costantini, angeli, ferrari, innocenti)@lamma.rete.toscana.it bMinistero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali - Direzione Regionale per i Beni Culturali e Paesaggistici della Toscana, Lungarno Anna Maria Luisa de’ Medici 4, 50122 Firenze, Italy marinella.delbuono@beniculturali.it LaMMA Consortium, with collaboration of Regione Toscana and Ministero per iBeni e le AttivitàCulturali (MiBAC), has realized the web Geographical Information System for Cultural Heritage and Protected Landscape of Regione Toscana. This system gives today the possibility to access the digital maps and the digital archives of archaeological, architectural and landscape related restrictions over the entire region. In order to continuously update the realized system for maintaining its utility and validity, Regione Toscana together with MiBAC signed a protocol agreement (2004), according to which every new restriction measure issued is sent as a copy also to the regional offices and then to LaMMA Consortium, that attends to update the digital archives and the digital maps. Thanks to this agreement, the system counts today over 18.000 measures, with an average yearly increase of almost 250 measures that determine restrictions for 9.000 areas. |
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| 28 | CULTURAL ROUTES AS A SOURCE FOR NEW KIND OF TOURISM DEVELOPMENT: EVIDENCE FROM THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE’S PROGRAMME | Dr. K. M. Khovanova-Rubicondo | Show/Hide | |
| Council of Europe Programme on Cultural Routes, Council of Europe, 1 Ave de l’Europe, Strasbourg 67000, France kseniya.khovanova@culture-routes.lu Europe offers a wide variety of cultural itineraries that, crossing several regions or countries, provide a living example of the rich and impressive European common heritage. For more than two decades 24 of such itineraries have been jointly collaborating under the Council of Europe’s (CoE) Cultural Routes Programme aimed to preserve the diversity of European culture and heritage, and to promote understanding of Europe’s history. Today, when cultural heritage is more and more often viewed as a new form of good - cultural good, - methods of heritage management are changing to incorporate new elements, which could help local communities to draw more obvious benefits from their cultural legacy while preserving and maintaining its uniqueness. Often these elements come from tourism: a new kind of tourism, which is respectful of the environment, of the natural and cultural heritage and of the local traditions. This article offers an overview of the Study on the CoE Cultural Routes Impact on Tourism SMEs (Khovanova et al., 2011) that demonstrated how the need for implementing sustainable tourism management practices is growing within the CoE cultural routes. One of the breaking findings of the Study was that, even though founded on social and cultural principles, CoE routes today serve as a source of innovation, small business creation, local income generation, and cultural tourism products development. These potentials are now been reinforced by building in sustainable tourism elements in cultural routes management practices, and by bringing the benefits of ICT and digitalization, following the Study recommendations. The findings of the Study could also help cultural heritage managers and policy makers around the globe to better understand tourism potential of cultural heritage sites, while encouraging respectful and sustainable management approaches. |
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| 14:00-15:00 | Multimedia, Data Management, Archives and Libraries | Demetra Room | ||
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| 65 | ISSUES TO BE ADDRESSED FOR TRANSFORMING A DIGITAL LIBRARY APPLICATION FOR EXPERTS INTO ONE FOR FINAL USERS | M. Agostia,*, L. Benfantea, M. Manfiolettia, N. Oriob, C. Ponchiab | Show/Hide | |
| aDepartment of Information Engineering, University of Padua, Via Gradenigo 6/a, 35131 Padua, Italy (agosti, benfante, manfioletti)@dei.unipd.it bDepartment of Cultural Heritage, University of Padua, Piazza Capitaniato 7, 35139 Padua, Italy nicola.orio@unipd.it, ponchiachiara1@gmail.com This paper reports on the effort we made in adapting and opening a specialist tool, focused on illumination and designed purposely for scholars and researchers, in order to be suitable also for the general public. We describe the ongoing process we are conducting: the adaptation and the improvement of the IPSA digital archive using the results we collected after several sessions of user interviews, following suggestions of both scholars and simple users. We discuss user studies dynamics, that we consider as a loop-interaction, and the consequences that they entail upon the system design. |
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| 70 | THE ARAB IMAGE FOUNDATION: COLLECTING, STUDYING AND PRESERVING PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA | Zeina Arida, Rima Mokaiesh | Show/Hide | |
| Arab Image Foundation, Beirut, Lebanon zeina.arida@fai.org.lb, rima.mokaiesh@fai.org.lb The Arab Image Foundation (AIF) has been collecting, studying and preserving photographs from the Middle East and North Africa since 1997. It runs curatorial and research projects, and activities related to photograph preservation. Fifteen years after its creation, the AIF’s archive holds over 600,000 images, including complete collections entrusted by photographers such as Hashem el Madani (Lebanon) or Kamil and RifaatChadirji (Iraq). Such collections require sustained efforts in terms of archiving, documenting and digitizing. In addition to the care of its own collection, the AIF’s current preservation programs include the Middle East Photograph Preservation Initiative (MEPPI), which seeks to identify and offer training to significant photographic collections in a region where expertise in conservation and preservation is all too often absent. The AIF is also a member of the Modern Heritage Observatory, a coalition which campaigns for the preservation of modern cultural heritage through the creation of a regional network of individuals and institutions committed to its cause. |
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| 59 | Immersive cultural experience through innovative multimedia applications | João Nuno Neto1, Maria João Neto2 | Show/Hide | |
| 1INOV, IST, UTL, Lisbon, Portugal - joao.neto@ist.utl.pt 2Art History Institute, UL, Lisbon, Portugal - mjneto@fl.ul.pt We are currently in the process of making a series of interconnected multimedia applications, in order to value and enliven the monuments of Sintra, Portugal - classified by Unesco as World Heritage site in 1995. This national project, FalaComigo(Talk2Me), aspires to present new contents, not only to scholars but also to an unlimited number of visitors, and thus achieve a social, cultural, educational and civic mission. As an interdisciplinary project, the historians generate the content, while the engineers and technicians design content-driven multimedia applications. In this phase, our case study is the Monserrate Palace, a revivalist building of the 19th century. These applications profoundly rely on a balance between renewed heritage contents, a rigorous scientific approach and stunning designs. We encounter innovative multimodal ways of visitor-application interaction, mainly with the addition of virtual agents that works as guide assistants with educational purposes. |
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| 68 | Islamic Manuscript Collections on the Web: An Evaluation of the User Interfaces | F. Şen | Show/Hide | |
| Dept. of Media, Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture, 00076 Aalto, Finland ferhat.sen@aalto.fi This paper presents a survey conducted to provide an overview of the functions and features of digital library user interfaces within the Islamic manuscript context. Based on Internet and bibliographical keyword search, the survey identifies 49 digital libraries that contain Islamic manuscript collections. The findings illustrate varying patterns for browsing, searching, navigation, and page-viewing systems as well as uncommon yet relevant tools and features offered by the interfaces for digital libraries. |
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| 12 | OPEN ACCESS TO SCIENTIFIC RESULTS AND DATA. EUROPEAN UNION’S EFFORTS THROUGH OPENAIRE AND OPENAIREPLUS FP7 PROJECTS: CYPRIOT PARTICIPATION | F.Ch. Tsimpoglou, V.V. Koukounidou*, L.A. Prokopiou | Show/Hide | |
| University of Cyprus Library, 75 Kallipoleos Str. P.O. Box 20537 1678 Nicosia, Cyprus (tsimpoglou.filippos, sylviek, prokopiou.louis)@ucy.ac.cy The paper presents the introduction of Open Access movement in the Academic environment,pros and cons of the adoption of OA by Universities and how the European Union is enforcing the use of Open Access. The ways of implementing OA, the policies of publishers and journals regarding the deposits of publications and the RoMEO and Juliet projects are also referred in an effort to give an overview of the conditions in exploiting Open Access, either as authors, publishers or end users. The adoption of Berlin declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanitiesby the Senate of the University of Cyprus is commented in the paper. Furthermore an analysis of the projects OpenAIRE and OpenAIREplus in which the University of Cyprus Library is involved is provided. |
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| 17 | The Museum Environment: A Complex Community of Objects, People and Devices | Gido Hakvoorta, Eugene Ch'nga, Russell Bealeb | Show/Hide | |
| aHeritage and Cultural Learning Hub, University of Birmingham, B15 2TT UK - (gxh183, e.chng)@bham.ac.uk bSchool of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT UK - r.beale@cs.bham.ac.uk The beginning of the 21st century is an exciting time for museums in terms of new, engaging and interactive exhibits. Current technological developments offer museums ideal opportunities to meet the increasing expectations of their visitors, many of whom are the younger generation growing up in the digital age. With a multitude of devices and objects as well as people incorporated into an ever-growing network of interconnected systems, new patterns, forms of interactions and social relations will emerge. In order to engage visitors, museums are adopting new technologies which come with many possibilities, but also have their individual challenges and limitations. Museums should start looking at the unification of many such technologies in order to capture visitor attention, engage visitor interaction and facilitate social activities, since the large quantity of digital input and output capabilities of these technologies are hidden potentials. However, unless specifically designed for, many of these capabilities remain hidden and technologies remain oblivious of each other’s features. Making them aware of each other’s capabilities opens the channels for new synergy and engaging experiences for museum visitors. This paper proposes a framework which uniquely identifies a community of people, artefacts and devices within the museum environment and provides the means to discover, and make use of the technological properties of each element, treating them as an interacting ecosystem of complex adaptive systems and networks in physical spaces. |
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| 24 | Implementation of Digital Museum using CMS and Gallery Tools | Hiroyuki Kawano | Show/Hide | |
| Dept. of Systems Design and Engineering, Nanzan University, Aichi, Japan, 4890863 kawano@nanzan-u.ac.jp Recently, we have good opportunities to integrate various digital collections and archive systems using loosely coupled and meaningfully connected hyperlinks from various viewpoints of cultural, social and technical aspects. In this paper, from technical view points, we present our implementation of digital anthropological museum using CMSs (Contents Management System) and gallery tools. Firstly, we have a brief comparison of digital archive software’s including popular CMSs. Recent years, Museums, Libraries and Archives (MLA) are making efforts to provide various digital collections and born-digital information by using digital archive systems. For example, major national libraries and long-term preserving organisations, such as IIPC (International Internet Preservation Consortium), gather and preserve huge amount of web pages, and curate them using web curator tools. Secondary, we propose a metadata schema for digital collections in “the Anthropological Museum of Nanzan University”, which is based on the guideline of museum objects. Our proposed schema based on XML metadata formats like URI/RDF/MODS. Finally, we show the system architecture of digital anthropological museum and implementation of three different prototype systems based on different CMSs add-on modules and other related software’s. From 2005 to 2012, we have 1776 digital collections with 74 metadata attributes and 40,000 ethnographic photographs without metadata, at present we store 277 digital contents having detail values into our prototype of digital museum system. Using interfaces of prototype systems, we also introduce workflows of museum collections including content rights management. |
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