This paper discusses a novel metadata element set for describing cultural heritage objects and their digital representations, which is particularly useful for building virtual exhibitions. The element set is based on several international standards and current best practice in museums. Additional elements are used for describing new types of data used in virtual exhibitions and taking into acco...

The increasing adoption of the Semantic Web vision has led to the emergence of a distributed knowledge base in the form of interconnected ontologies. In the context of cultural heritage in particular, digital museums that use Semantic Web standards and technologies, hereafter called Semantic Web museums, have been proposed. Current Semantic Web museums, however, support mostly static exhibition...

Over the last years, museums and galleries are looking for new ways to show exhibitions to visitors. For that purpose, new technologies like augmented reality are used. In this paper an augmented reality system for indoor exhibitions is presented. The system is formed by visualization screens that mix exhibition environment, visitors included, with multimedia and virtual 3D objects which visito...

The paper proposes a business model for the efficiency optimization of the interaction between all actors involved in cultural heritage sector, such as galleries, libraries, archives and museums (GLAM). The validation of the business model is subject of analyses and implementations in a real environment made by different cultural institutions. The implementation of virtual exhibitions on mobile...

The multimedial capacities of the last generation computers meet the needs of the recent, new impulse to catalogue, restore and preserve the archaeological patrimony. In this paper we propose an easy-to-use authoring tool suitable to a) help the user in setting up an exhibition or a museum in such a way to match different criteria and satisfy user-defined or structure constraints; and b) prepar...

Exhibitions Dates to note are: Sunday, 21st November 1999. West of England Creepy Crawly Show, Newton Abbot racecourse, Devon. Sunday, 5th December 1999. Midlands Entomological Fair. At Kettering Leisure Village. Open 1030-1630. Admission: £2.00 adults, £1.00 children and OAPs. The venue is just off junction 8 of the A14 and is usually well signposted. Sunday 16th April 2000. Midlands Entomolog...

Digital media offers great possibilities to present cultural heritage: visitors can interactively explore content and the content can be dynamically presented according to the situation in the exhibition. For instance, little content may be presented in larger letters if the visitor is standing far away from the exhibit, but if the visitor is coming closer, a larger body of content can be prese...