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Novel Internet-based Cultural Heritage Applications |
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RADIOGRAPHY OF THE PAST – THREE DIMENSIONAL, VIRTUAL RECONSTRUCTION OF A ROMAN TOWN IN LUSITANIA |
Michael Klein, Christina Corsi, Frank Vermeulen |
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A DYNAMIC ONLINE INTERFACE REPRESENTING A POLYVALENT CULTURAL IDENTITY: THE CASE OF CRETE |
P. Partheniosa,*, N. Patsavosb |
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| aDept. of Architecture, Technical University of Crete, 127 El. Venizelou Str., 73 100 Chania, Crete, Greece parthenios@arch.tuc.gr bDept. of Architecture, University of Nicosia, ARC, 31 M. Georgalla Str., Egomi Industrial Zone, Nicosia, Cyprus nhpatsavos@aaschool.ac.uk
Conceptual models offer the ability to capture several concepts, and more importantly their often complicated relationships, in one single view. When applying this method in order to represent a geographical region’s past, this would mean an emphasis on the dynamic structure of the cultural phenomena represented and not on a formalistic evolutionary catalogue of data and de-contextualized information. Especially when dealing with complex and deep hierarchies or intangible notions, a conceptual model can offer an additional level of perceptual understanding. We use the Conceptual Modeling Language (ConML) in our proposed application for the presentation of the main monuments of Crete as a tool for organizing, manipulating, and communicating the large amounts of data such a project entails. Conceptualization and Abstraction of information through different levels of detail allows the application to be light and easy to use. Moreover, the ability to switch between different historical periods offers a comparative study of the monuments evolution in time. Thus, we aim at a dynamic representation from the user of Crete’s, an island characterized by the Mediterranean’s rich and polyvalent historical development, culture. |
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A FRAMEWORK FOR CLASSIFYING INTERACTIONS IN CULTURAL HERITAGE INFORMATION SYSTEMS |
Juliane Stiller |
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| Berlin School of Library and Information Science, Humboldt-Universitätzu Berlin, Dorotheen Str. 26, 10117 Berlin, Germany juliane.stiller@ibi.hu-berlin.de
With the mass digitization of cultural heritage and the increase of people accessing the digitized memory objects, it becomes crucial to develop meaningful interaction patterns in cultural heritage information systems. This explorative study is based on an investigation of 50 websites from the cultural heritage domain. It derives a framework for classifying user interactions with digital cultural heritage. The framework has two dimensions; the first one is a classification of the interactions and the second one describes their degree of complexity. The strength of this framework is the ability to compare complexity, scope and purpose of interactions across different websites while offering a meaningful vocabulary for discussing different interaction features. |
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3DPUBLISH: A WEB-BASED SOLUTION FOR BUILDING DYNAMIC 3D VIRTUAL MUSEUMS |
S. Sillaurren, P. Aguirrezabal* |
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| Media Unit, Tecnalia Research&Innovation Centre, 48160 Parque Tecnologico de Bizkaia C\ Geldo (Derio), Spain (sara.sillaurren, pablo.aguirrezabal)@tecnalia.com
Today museums around the world offer their content through two basic methods: a simple view of their artworks through a content viewer, or through a custom designed 2D or 3D virtual exhibition in which the pieces and the scene are static. This paper describes a 3DPublish tool which represents an alternative to these two static solutions thereby giving the possibility to dynamically manage a 3D virtual scenario (real or imaginary) and the artwork that composes it. This gives the user a most realistic experience through different exhibitions, using various added value methods like storytelling or virtual tours. 3DPublish will facilitate the museum curator’s daily tasks and will improve the final results for 3D virtual museum exhibitions. This application was created as part of the Tourspheres project, which challenge is to explore new measurement systems to reach a more valuable tourist behavior comprehension. But after the experience (presented in this paper as a case study) of creating a custom development for an exhibition for the Kubo Galleryin San Sebastian (SPAIN), the work focused on Abstracting all processes to package the 3DPublish tool with the aim that it becomes a commercial solution. |
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Standards, Metadata, Ontologies and Ethics in Cultural Heritage |
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Easing the Creation of Mappings betweeen Metadata Formats |
Kurt Majcen*, Werner Bailer, Martin Höffernig, Werner Preininger, Silvia Russegger |
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| DIGITAL – Institute for Information and Communication Technologies, JOANNEUM RESEARCH Forschungsgesellschaft mbH, Steyrergasse 17, 8010 Graz, Austria (kurt.majcen, werner.bailer, martin.hoeffernig, werner.preininger, silvia.russegger)@joanneum.at
Being able to exchange metadata is the key to ensuring access to collections, establishing interoperability among collections, and between different types of cultural heritage institutions, such as across libraries, museums and audio-visual archives. Motivated by two use cases, one for audio-visual archives and one for museums and general archives, we present an approach for automating mapping between different metadata formats. The mapping approach uses an intermediate ontology and formalises the relations to each of the metadata formats supported. An intuitive web-based configuration user interface is provided in order to build and customise mappings. Based on the two use cases, we discuss two ways of applying the mapping approach: as a web service, which can be included in processes of an audio-visual archive’s preservation system and integrating of the generated mapping instructions into collection management applications for museums and archives. The proposed approach reduces the effort for defining metadata conversions. It thus allows overcoming interoperability issues between cultural heritage institutions and facilitates content provision to portals like Europeana and Archives Portal Europe. |
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DIVERSITY AND TAXONOMY IN CULTURAL HERITAGE |
N.E.Myridis |
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| Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, GR-54124, Thessaloniki, Greece nmyridis@theo.auth.gr
The discipline of Cultural Heritage meets nowadays an excellent ongoing development. Moreover, the field of Cultural Heritage Preservation meets analogous development too. Thus the necessity of well-organized taxonomy and classification seems to be an outstanding significant topic. The scope of this paper regards such taxonomy; more precisely, it proposes this kind of taxonomy. The final products of this paper are the Diagram of Cultural Heritage & its Preservation and the Universal Cultural Heritage & Preservation Classification (UCH&PC). The herein proposed Cultural Taxonomy is expected to offer additive features of significant value (as for instance order, efficacy, clarification, simplicity, supervision etc.) distributed all over the individual fields of Cultural Heritage. The products of this paper are the innovative outcomes of a multifaceted research endeavor. |
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How to Build a Dam and Save Cultural Heritage |
E.L. Cunliffea,*, M.. de Gruchya, E. Stammittib |
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| aDepartment of Archaeology, Durham University, Dawson Building, South Road, Durham, UK, DH1 3LE (e.l.cunliffe, michelle.de-gruchy)@dur.ac.uk bSchool of History, Classics and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh, Doorway 4, Teviot Place, Edinburgh EH8 9AG Scotland, UK archaeology.otter@gmail.com
The impact of each dam on cultural heritage is enormous, affecting hundreds or even thousands of sites. Dams are required, however, to offset water shortages and provide electricity for a rising global population. This short paper describes the initial outcomes of a new project, the aim of which is the production of a practical set of guidelines for cultural heritage management before and after dam construction, aimed at developers, foreign contractors, and policy-makers. |
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INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE IN THE PACIFIC ISLANDS: WHY EUROPE SHOULD LISTEN IN |
K.A. Serrano |
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| University of Central Lancashire, School of Law, Preston, PR1 2HE, England and, University of the South Pacific, PMB 9072, Port Vila, Vanuatu Serrano_k@vanuatu.usp.ac.fj
Pacific Island countries (PICs) are developing countries representing one of the culturally richest and most diverse regions worldwide. A decade ago, the realization evolved at international level that intangible cultural heritage (ICH) represents a development tool with an inherent commercial value. Regional initiatives are currently trying to balance objectives of development and protection of ICH with the need for commercial exploitation and effects of commodification. Yet, the same cannot be said about the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) between PICs and the EU. The article advocates that current EU efforts in supporting regional and national processes meant to establish a preliminary level of legal protection for Pacific ICH are insufficient and inappropriate to the ‘living’ character of ICH. It promotes a more context-oriented design of intellectual property rights (IPR) provisions in EU policy instruments aimed at sustainable development of the Pacific region. |
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EUDAT:Towards a European Collaborative Data Infrastructure |
Damien Lecarpentiera,*, Mark van de Sandenb, Peter Wittenburgc |
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| aCSC — IT Center for Science Ltd, FI-02101 Espoo, Finland - Damien.Lecarpentier@csc.fi bSARA, Science Park 140, 1098 XG Amsterdam, The Netherlands - sanden@sara.nl cMax Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, PO Box 310, 6500 AH Nijmegen, The Netherlands - Peter.Wittenburg@mpi.nl
The EUDAT project is a pan-European data initiative that started in October 2011. The project brings together a unique consortium of 25 partners–including research communities, national data and high performance computing (HPC) centres, technology providers, and funding agencies–from 13 countries. EUDAT aims to build a sustainable cross-disciplinary and cross-national data infrastructure that provides a set of shared services for accessing and preserving research data. The design and deployment of these services is being coordinated by multi-disciplinary task forces comprising representatives from research communities and data centres. This short paper presents the achievements of the project during its first year and describes the services that have been chosen to meet the requirements of the initial research communities involved in the project. |
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SCIDIP-ES / SCIENCE DATA INFRASTRUCTURE FOR PRESERVATION - EARTH SCIENCE |
Mirko Albani |
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Benchmarking for furthering guidelines and best practices on methodologies, and standards for CH protection, restoration, preservation and documentation |
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EVALUATION OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL FEATURES OF VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURE. A CASE STUDY IN CYPRUS |
M. Philokyprou*, A. Michael |
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| University of Cyprus, Department of Architecture, Nicosia, Cyprus P.O Box 20537 Nicosia 1678, mphiloky@ucy.ac.cy, aimilios@ucy.ac.cy
Traditional settlements are by definition sustainable in relation to their environmental context and available resources. This paper investigates the environmental behaviour of vernacular architecture and the identification of the different factors that contribute to a pleasant environment and thermal comfort within traditional buildings and their surroundings. This investigation is part of an extended ongoing research programme which is the first research programme regarding the vernacular architecture of Cyprus that includes in situ measurements of temperature, humidity and ventilation using data loggers and weather stations. The results indicate the bioclimatic design elements of Cyprus’ vernacular architecture and more specifically the passive strategies for heating (solar gains, thermal mass, thermal inertia), cooling (sun-shading, ventilation) and optimization of environmental microclimatic conditions (planting, evaporation). The analysis shows a relatively stable indoor temperature regardless of the fluctuation of outdoor temperature due to the considerable thermal mass of the structure. The data also indicates that the internal temperature reaches a maximum value later in the day compared with the external environment. This is related to the thermal inertia of the building’s envelope that delays the heat transfer from the external environment to the internal space. Through this research the great significance of the internal courtyard was underlined, which serves as a microclimate regulator, keeping the temperature at higher levels than the external environment during the winter period. Taking into consideration the sustainability of vernacular architecture, the essential skills for environmentally-friendly approaches to the built environment can be developed, which will benefit society as a whole. |
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A COMPARISON BETWEEN SYNTHETIC SPACE ANALYSIS AND INTANGIBLE HERITAGE INVESTIGATION IN URBAN CONSERVATION |
N.T. Alkymakchy , E. Ismaeel, Alsoofe |
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| Faculty Members, Department of Architecture, College of Engineering, University of Mosul-Iraq nahithtaha@yahoo.com, emadhanee@yahoo.com, hatamalsoofe@yahoo.com
Currently, the rising awareness to intangible heritage conservation of historic regions, has become a progressively concerned topic in the international level. In the protection process of the current historic cities authorities, until now, the tangible culture heritage, built environment and historic buildings in old districts are the concentrated matter, while the safeguarding intangible cultural heritage has seldom been performed intentionally. This paper aims to accentuate the significant role of the intangible heritage in the urban renewal policies of old historic districts. It is undertakes the conservation and urban renewal activities of Mosul Old City (MOC) as a case study, and it is explains that there are broad distinctions in various aspects between space structural analysis and intangible elements investigation, which designates that the intangible elements do not correlate to material or synthetic items within the urban fabric in the same high grade that is associated to the inhabitants memory of the historic area. It emphasizes on how it is essential to be aware to the preservation of intangible heritage besides the tangible heritage in the urban renewal policies. |
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REDISCOVERY OF THE COURTYARD, AS A MAJOR INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE |
Yiorgos Hadjichristou |
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| Dept. of Architecture, University of Nicosia, 31 Michail Yiorgalla, 2409 Nicosia CYPRUS hadjichristou@unic.ac.cy
The radical and huge scale changes in the island of Cyprus, especially of the last century resulted to a significant disruption with the social and cultural heritage. The paper will focus on the Courtyards as indispensable part of the intangible cultural heritage which carries invaluable ‘wisdoms’ stemming out form the rich history of the island, the climatic and topographical conditions, but decapitated due to the modernization brought by the British colonization and the well rooted enforcement of the urban regulations of the young government. More specifically it will concentrate on ways and mechanisms of not only how to revive this intangible architectural quality, but rather to evolve it in order to generate new spatial typologies responding to the social and cultural changes in relation to their new organizational and functional requirements. |
