Archives are an extremely valuable part of cultural heritage since they represent the trace of the activities of a juridical person or organization in the course of their business. Through various information technology (IT), tremendous amount of digital archives (DA) are created. These archives are the basis for providing evidence and knowledge in everlasting memory of human society. The manag...

Spatial sound information/cues may enhance the sense of immersiveness in virtual story telling. However, their role within complex, loosely-structured narratives is little understood. This paper describes a virtual heritage project that aims to convey a factual story using interactive virtual environments. Sound was added to the existing project in an effort to enhance the virtual experience. T...

The paper will discuss the problematic approach of ancient landscape reconstruction, stressing the importance of data and information sharing through the web. Thanks to new possibilities offered by Open Source approach and, in specific, by some tools, such as Virtual Terrain and OpenSceneGraaph, it’s now possible to construct a web-based shared system, allowing users and experts to interact dyn...

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EN) The paper documents the creation in 2004 of real-world stereographic panoramas at the UNESCO world heritage listed site Angkor, in Cambodia. The project builds upon the history of the panorama as a medium of virtual travel that has existed from the eighteenth century. The significance of the current project is the way in which real-world (as opposed to computer generated) stereographic pano...

Virtual Heritage Caches are a new instrument for disseminating information about heritage sites in a non formal way. Educational concepts for world heritage sites and cultural heritage already exist in museums (exhibition) and on site (signage, smartphone apps). Often they are closed systems with little intersection and interaction between them. Heritage Caches aim to combine their target audie...

This paper describes a novel approach to satisfy the needs of museum’s website visitors with a unique experience that cannot be reproduced in the museum itself. We aim at providing a continuous and lasting experience, without the emphasis of a single, final result a process we call digital strolling. The view supports this process by displaying results as a path on which the user strolls. To en...

The articles collected in this special issue aim at addressing the debate about the protection and use of cultural heritage in the Pacific within the context of globalization. Contributions aim specifically at analyzing the tension that exists between, on the one hand, political, legal and economic discourses of Pacific peoples who wish to retain control and who seek protection of the use of th...

A number of notorious events have provoked the outburst Islamophobia whch became normalized and persistent in Western world starting from 9/11 unfortunate event to recurrent emergences terrorist groups. The development Islamophobic ideas has nurtured mainly two major ideas. first is legitimization attacking Islamic thought Muslim believers that are both held responsible for spread violent extre...

The article deals with the role of classical falsafa heritage in modern Islamic philosophical discourse. Based on interpretations texts philosophers, authors come to conclusion about relevance past for development directions and methodologies humanitarian knowledge. Conducting a comparative analysis doctrines Middle Ages substantiate commonality approaches conceptualization subjectivity, obliga...