Geoparks: Celebrating Earth heritage, sustaining local communities

Sustaining Earth ’ s biodiversity

A Cultural Heritage Forum Celebrating Technological Innovation at Station X

We aim to encourage and support public participation in heritage through the development of Cultural Heritage Forums, a kind of cultural web portal that enables active participation of communities of interest in a way that complements rather than replaces visits to physical cultural institutions. The cultural heritage forum described here (Station X) is concerned with promoting an understanding...

ActiveCampus - Sustaining Educational Communities through Mobile Technology

The traditional university campus is designed to foster a thriving community of learners, but modernity has introduced many stresses. Mobile computing holds the potential to strengthen a campus’s traditional institutions of community through a process of indirect mediation. This paper introduces ActiveCampus, a suite of personal services for sustaining an educational community. The design and i...

Defining and Sustaining Populations and Communities

The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) cover subjects such as ending poverty, achieving gender equality, ensuring access to water, energy, and food, and protecting ecosystems. Every SDG includes wording that refers directly or indirectly to a population or community or organisms, humans or otherwise. Therefore, the Population and Community Ontology (PCO) plays a crucial role in defining th...

Towards Cultural Heritage Communities Online Design Rationale

Web technology enables cultural heritage institutions to provide access to their collections to anyone interested. However, in order to be able to interpret and analyze collection objects online, a contextual representation is necessary. This research explores whether existing communities can be addressed in order to complement this context, and evaluates an event-centered representation of obj...