Enhancing accessibility in cultural heritage environments: considerations for social computing

Smart Environments for Cultural Heritage

This paper outlines a vision of Smart Environments for Cultural Heritage. The concept draws on research in an area variously known as Ubiquitous Computing, Pervasive Computing or Ambient Intelligence, which is recognized as one of the current grand challenges for computer science. Smart environments depend on communication and cooperation between numerous devices, sensor networks, servers in th...

A Specific Ontology and Related Web Services for Assessing Accessibility Issues in Cultural Heritage Environments

The “Design for All” (DfA, 2010) strategy proposes a general framework for accessibility to Cultural Heritage able to integrate 3D Documentation, Information and Management (3DIM) Systems in monitored environments. Interoperability between information systems requires a common reference framework developed as a semantic layer based on an ontology. This ontology integrates concepts and relations...

Context-Aware Cultural Heritage Environments

Nowadays, cultural heritage environments, like museums, archaeological sites, cultural heritage cities, city authorities, etc, select to disseminate and present the artefacts and relevant content that they have gathered and preserved for years not only via traditional exhibitions but also through the web and multimedia applications. The aggregated content is extensive both in topics and in dept...

for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities

Considerations on Mechanism Designs as Suitable for Cultural Heritage Evaluation

Copyright © 2013 Marco Ceccarelli. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. In accordance of the Creative Commons Attribution License all Copyrights © 2013 are reserved for SCIRP and the owner of the intellectual property M...