Cultural Heritage and Popular Cultures:The Revolution Won't Be TelevisedAnd Its Global Reception

Electronic Publications of Cultural Heritage: Global Challenges and Local Practices

The paper reviews information and communication technologies as new tools in cultural representation and knowledge management, addresses issues of persuasion and engagement with the new media, explores ways on how to construct three-dimensional interfaces that are easy to use and navigate. These main issues are addressed in discussing the design of cultural interface ’Virtual exhibition of Lith...

Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Tourism Development

Cultural Heritage

Il Progetto Nu.M.E. (Nuovo Museo Elettronico della Storia della Città di Bologna), è iniziato nel 1997 dall’idea di poter creare un ambiente virtuale che permettesse di realizzare una ricostruzione tridimensionale dell’habitat urbano e delle sue trasformazioni storiche dai giorni nostri al 1200. È nata così la città in 4 dimensioni (tre dimensioni spaziali più una temporale) che permette ai vis...

A Conceptual-KDD Approach and its Application to Cultural Heritage

Several governmental and non-governmental organizations (NGOs), motivated by the UNESCO have undertaken the task of documenting the intangible cultural heritage of their communities. However, this has proven to be a difficult task. In this work we present a conceptual knowledge discovery in databases (CKDD) approach to aid a particular organization in this task (which has already started). Beca...

Pacific Discourses About Cultural Heritage and Its Protection: An Introduction

The articles collected in this special issue aim at addressing the debate about the protection and use of cultural heritage in the Pacific within the context of globalization. Contributions aim specifically at analyzing the tension that exists between, on the one hand, political, legal and economic discourses of Pacific peoples who wish to retain control and who seek protection of the use of th...