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 depth; semantic web technologies, like ontologies that are the most prominent technology for cultural-related information and knowledge representation, have been applied in order to annotate and organise it. So far, the presentation of cultural content focused on web applications, like web portals. In the 21st century web remains the primary platform for content access, but the desktop as a means for access has diminished influence. Lately, there has been a shift towards on site content access using feature rich portable devices, like enhanced mobile phones, netbooks, pdas, etc. The advent of the ubiquitous and mobile computing technologies has led to the development of various mobile apABSTRACT