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The CULTURA Project: Supporting Next Generation Interaction with Digital Cultural Heritage Collections

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Progress in Cultural Heritage Preservation (EuroMed 2012)

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In recent years there has been a marked uptake in the digitisation of cultural heritage collections. Though this has enabled more sources to be made available to experts and the wider public, curators still struggle to instigate and enhance engagement with cultural archives. This is largely due to the monolithic nature of many digital archives; the challenge of understanding large collections, especially if the language is inconsistent; and because users vary in expertise and have different tasks and goals that they are trying to accomplish. This paper describes CULTURA, an FP7 funded project that is addressing these specific issues. The various technologies and approaches being used by CULTURA are discussed, along with the lessons learnt thus far.

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  1. Knowledge and Data Engineering Group, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

    Cormac Hampson, Eoin Bailey, Seamus Lawless, Owen Conlan & Vincent Wade

  2. Department of Information Engineering, University of Padua, Italy

    Maristella Agosti

  3. Department of Cultural Heritage, University of Padua, Italy

    Nicola Orio

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  1. Electrical and Computer Engineering and Informatics, Digital Heritage Laboratory, Cyprus University of Technology (CUT), ArchbishopKyprianou 31, 3036, Limassol, Cyprus

    Marinos Ioannides

  2. Institut für Photogrammetrie, Universität Stuttgart, Geschwister-Scholl-Straße 24D, 70174, Stuttgart, Germany

    Dieter Fritsch

  3. Fraunhofer Institute, Scientific Representative for Fraunhofer IAP, IBP, ICT, IGB, ISC, IST & MOEZ, Research Alliance Cultural Heritage and Sustainability Network, Rue du Commerce 31, 1000, Brussels, Belgium

    Johanna Leissner

  4. MDR Partners (Consulting) Ltd., 2B Fitzgerald Road, SW14 8HA, London, UK

    Rob Davies

  5. 3D Optical Metrology Unit FBK, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK), Via Sommarive 18, 38123, Trento, Italy

    Fabio Remondino

  6. Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico delle Biblioteche Italiane, Viale del Castro Pretorio 105, 185, Rome, Italy

    Rossella Caffo

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Hampson, C. et al. (2012). The CULTURA Project: Supporting Next Generation Interaction with Digital Cultural Heritage Collections. In: Ioannides, M., Fritsch, D., Leissner, J., Davies, R., Remondino, F., Caffo, R. (eds) Progress in Cultural Heritage Preservation. EuroMed 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7616. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34234-9_70

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