An Electronic Sales Infrastructure for the Exploitation of Digital Cultural Heritage and Copyright Protection of Digital Images

This paper focuses on the design and implementation of an Electronic Sales Infrastructure for Digital Images of the Cultural Heritage. The main components of the infrastructure are an Advanced Digital Image Repository, which offers specialized services and a Dedicated User Interface for the protection and management of the Intellectual Property Rights of digitized material. In addition, another main research area of this contribution is the design and implementation of an Electronic Sales System, supported by advanced technologies, for the proper exploitation of the digital cultural content. The work described in this contribution focuses on digitized material of the Hellenic Cultural Heritage. It has been carried out as part of the PRAXITELIS Project, which was originally presented during the Culture Track of the WWW9 Conference in Amsterdam ([8], [9], [10]). This project is focusing on countering “electronic theft” and protecting the copyright of digital surrogates of photographs of artifacts, monuments and sites.