introduction cultural or heritage tourism is a tool of economic development that leads to economic growth by attracting visitors from outside the host community through historic and heritage attractions of destinations. this is a human heritage as cultural traditions of each society and is considered as cultural tourist attractions. hence, yazd is an ancient city with archaic culture and also r...

The digitalization of cultural materials is doubtless a key-enabler for increasing accessibility of cultural heritage documents, e.g., historical texts. In the last decade Semantic Digital Libraries (see, e.g., [1]) have attracted the attention of research communities coming from different research areas, such as Cultural Heritage, History, and Knowledge Engineering. In order to find more innov...

SMARTMUSEUM (Cultural Heritage Knowledge Exchange Platform) is a Research and Development project sponsored under the Europeans Commission’s 7th Framework. The overall objective of the project is to develop a platform for innovative services enhancing on-site personalized access to digital cultural heritage through adaptive and privacy preserving user profiling. Using on-site knowledge database...

In this paper we explore the use of location aware mobile devices for searching and browsing a large number of general and cultural heritage information repositories. Based on GPS positioning we can determine a user’s location and context, composed of physical nearby locations, historic events that have taken place there, artworks that were created at or inspired by those locations and artists ...

Cultural heritage institutions are fantastic resources of multimedia content. Rich metadata structures, able to capture the diversity of the media, the subject matter and the context around each information asset, are required to make this content accessible. This paper describes how the CIDOC CRM Core format can be used to structure cultural heritage metadata for multimedia by making the appro...

Complete digital recording of Cultural Heritage is a multidimensional process. It depends highly on the nature of the subject of recording as well as the purpose of its recording. The whole process involves the three-dimensional digitization, digital data processing and storage, archival and management, representation and reproduction. In this paper we briefly review methods for three-dimension...

For the cultural development an effective communication energy. Palermo's image abroad can be promoted by taking advantage of its exceptional cultural heritage. Giacomo Serpotta, Palermo's great sculptor, could be promoted on an international level. COMMUNICATING INFORMATION IN PALERMO Today the Mediterranean Basin is the one area in Europe which really calls for this type of approach. Palermo,...

In this paper, we show how Semantic Web techniques can help to solve semantic interoperability issues in the cultural heritage domain. In particular, these techniques can enable integrated access to heterogeneous collections by representing their controlled description vocabularies (e.g. thesauri) in a standardized format – Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS). We also present existing a...

This paper presents a discussion on different techniques that can be used for the analysis of multispectral images (i.e., images taken in more than three spectral bands) that are acquired in the context of Cultural Heritage or Archaeological studies. False Color imaging, Blind Source Separation methods and techniques based on the use of Artificial Neural Networks are discussed. Examples are pre...