Enhancing Online Accessibility of Digitized Artifacts from Small Museum Collections in Cyprus: An Empirical Evaluation of the CyprusArk Solution
Small museums play a pivotal role in the Cyprus cultural landscape by carefully safeguarding and curating historical artifacts, thereby showcasing the country's rich heritage. However, in order to enhance accessibility to a wider audience, it is crucial ...
Learning to Detect Attended Objects in Cultural Sites with Gaze Signals and Weak Object Supervision
Cultural sites such as museums and monuments are popular tourist destinations worldwide. Visitors come to these places to learn about the cultures, histories, and arts of a particular region or country. However, for many cultural sites, traditional ...
Machine and Deep Learning Implementations for Heritage Building Information Modelling: A Critical Review of Theoretical and Applied Research
Research domain and Problem: HBIM modelling from point cloud data has become a crucial research topic in the last decade since it is potentially considered as the central data model paving the way for the digital heritage practice beyond digitization. ...
The Spatial Relationship between Cities and Mountains in Jiangnan Region in the Qing Dynasty Based on Historical Texts
The Jiangnan region of China boasts a superior natural environment, and the combination of cities and mountains that form its historical landscape give it unique attributes. Local chronicles serve as an abundant source of information for visualizing this ...
Artwork Recommendations based on User Preferences: Integrating Clustering Analysis with Visual Features
Recently, recommendation systems have become one of the important elements for sales and marketing, and their application is almost essential in the shopping and cultural industries. Despite the increase in online exhibitions and the growing audience ...
Enhancing Accessibility and Navigation of Heritage Collections Through Interactive Spatiotemporal Maps
Visualizing data allows us to interactively explore and analyze datasets, which can be dynamic, noisy, and heterogeneous. In the field of cultural heritage, more and more museums and cultural institutions are exploiting modern visualization systems to ...
Digital reconstruction of partially lost altarpieces. The case of the Rosary's altarpiece of Sant Pere Màrtir de Manresa
An important challenge of Digital Cultural Heritage is to contribute to the recovery of artworks with their original shape and appearance. Many altarpieces, which are very relevant Christian art elements, have been damaged and/or partly or fully lost. ...
An Ontology-Based Framework for Supporting Decision-Making in Conservation and Restoration Interventions for Cultural Heritage
Decision-making (DM) is the backbone of the Conservation and Restoration (CnR) of Cultural Heritage (CH). The demands of the DM process for information organization and management have raised issues that the CnR community attempts to solve by creating DM-...
Social Media Analytics of User Evaluation for Innovative Digital Cultural and Creative Products: Experiences regarding Dunhuang Cultural Heritage
Social media platforms play an increasingly important role in cultural communication as society develops, attracting promotions and discussions about digital cultural and creative products (CACPs). This research investigates the cultural collaboration ...
3VR: Vice Versa Virtual Reality Algorithm to Track and Map User Experience
The understanding of how users interact with the virtual cultural heritage could provide digital curators valuable insights into user behaviors and also improve the overall user experience through the ability to observe and record interactions of virtual ...
Explainable Authorship Identification in Cultural Heritage Applications
While a substantial amount of work has recently been devoted to improving the accuracy of computational Authorship Identification (AId) systems for textual data, little to no attention has been paid to endowing AId systems with the ability to explain the ...