The Indiana MAS project, funded by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research “Futuro in Ricerca 2010” program, aims at providing a framework for the digital protection and conservation of rock art natural and cultural heritage sites, by storing, organizing and presenting information about them in such a way to encourage scientific research and to raise the interest and sensibil...

as an interdisciplinary profession, conservation of historic places has a vast connection with other branches of knowledge such as engineering, art and social science. the education of this profession, for the same reason, is a complicated and multidimensional issue. the rich and numerous cultural and historical heritage of iran indicate the significance of establishing appropriate standards an...

The recent survey technologies, play a leading role in the process of knowledge of the cultural heritage. In fact they are finalized to the acquisition of geometric data necessary to describe usefully geometric features and peculiarities of historical monuments necessary for their conservation and safeguard. Besides digitalisation of the acquired data, allows the same data availability by diffe...

The paper for the CHiC pilot lab describes the motivation, tasks, Europeana collections and topics, evaluation measures as well as the submitted and analyzed information retrieval runs. In its first year, CHiC offered three tasks: ad-hoc, which measured retrieval effectiveness according to relevance of the ranked retrieval results (standard 1000 document TREC output), variability, which require...

Virtual reality technology has been applied to the protection of cultural heritage for about 20 years. However, methods or systems of cultural heritage reported in previous studies are still unable to represent large-scale cultural heritage sites such as the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, the Struve Geodetic Arc and the boundaries of the Roman Empire. We aimed at constructing a large-scale cultu...

The cultural heritage artifacts Conservation Documentation format is not universally agreed upon nor has it always been considered an important aspect of the conservation profession. Conservation records present major drawbacks, which are the fragmentary and incomplete description of the contained information and related processes. On the other hand, as strict regulations prohibit invasive test...

Providing primary care to rural patients requires creativity, resourcefulness, and sensitivity. The NP's education in and exposure to cultural sensitivity can support delivery of care that is both patient-centered and ethnically-focused. Clinicians' knowledge about the cultural heritage of their constituency must include recognition of norms, beliefs, and practices. Knowledge of culture and its...

With the mass digitization of cultural heritage and the increase of people accessing the digitized memory objects, it becomes crucial to develop meaningful interaction patterns in cultural heritage information systems. This explorative study is based on an investigation of 50 websites from the cultural heritage domain. It derives a framework for classifying user interactions with digital cultur...

This paper addresses the question of the value attached by residents of tourist places to the wealth of cultural heritage in their city. Particular attention is given to the impact of various types of information (ranging from traditional to advanced ICT sources) on the residents’ valuation of cultural heritage. Based on an extensive survey among inhabitants of Amsterdam, a two-stage analytical...