Links concerning tourism, cultural heritage and e-services
ACTIVATE: New Access and Services for Cultural Content
http://www.activate.ie
ACTIVATE tested the use of new technology to open new modes of access to cultural content. Existing content resources have been digitised, and a thematic network was built.
ARCHEOGUIDE: Augmented Reality-based Cultural Heritage On-site Guide
http://archeoguide.intranet.gr
ARCHEOGUIDE builds a system providing new ways of information access at cultural heritage sites in a compelling, user-friendly way through the use of advanced IT including augmented reality, 3D-visualization, mobile computing, and multi-modal interaction.
ARCO: Augmented Representation of Cultural Objects
http://www.arco-web.org
ARCO is a research project aimed at developing technology for museums to create 3D Virtual Exhibitions on the Web. Virtual exhibitions are created by digitising museum artefacts, which are then transformed into Virtual Representations, which can be X3D or VRML models or scenes.
CHLT: Cultural Heritage Language Technologies
http://www.chlt.org
CHLT is an international collaboration which will address important questions, and offer practical solutions, regarding the creation of International Digital Library Technology (IDLT).
CIPHER: Enabling Communities of Interest to Promote Heritage of European Regions
http://cipherweb.open.ac.uk/news/index.pl
The CIPHER project aims to develop Cultural Heritage Forums, associated to regions, which empower communities to create, own and sustain online cultural content for themselves, through the provision of workable methodologies and tools for long-term development and sustainability.
COLLATE: Collaboratory for Annotation, Indexing and Retrieval of Digitized Historical Archive Material
http://www.collate.de
COLLATE aims to implement a WWW-based collaborative work environment for archives, researchers and end-users concerned with digitised cultural material. The repository focuses on historic film documentation, including censorship files, photos and film fragments. Users will take an active part in evaluating sources and adding valuable information.
COVAX: Contemporary Culture Virtual Archive in XML
http://www.covax.org
COVAX plans to combine document descriptions and digitised surrogates from libraries, archives and museum, to build a global system for search and retrieval. It will allow the widely distributed primary documents to be accessed regardless of their location.
DigiCULT: Technology challenges for Europe's cultural and scientific heritage
http://www.digicult.info/pages/info.php
DigiCULT is a project aimed to establish a regular technology watch for cultural and scientific heritage through assessment of existing and emerging technologies, in order to optimise the development, access to, and preservation of Europe's rich cultural and scientific heritage.
ENTER Conference 2008 - eTourism:The View from the Future
http://www.ifitt.org/xxl/_site/ifitt/_area/enter2008
ENTER 2008 is unique forum for academics, industry and government to present and debate state-of-the-art research and industry case studies on the application of information and communication technologies to tourism and travel.
EPOCH: the European research network of excellence in open Cultural Heritage
http://www.epoch-net.org
EPOCH is a network of about a hundred European cultural institutions joining their efforts to improve the quality and effectiveness of the use of Information and Communication Technology for innovative communication of Cultural Heritage.
iTACITUS : Intelligent Tourism and Cultural Information through Ubiquitous Services
http://itacitus.org
iTacitus is a European research project funded under the Sixth Framework Programme for information society technologies. iTacitus aims to explore ways in which information technology can be employed to encourage cultural tourism.
MINERVA
http://www.minervaeurope.org
MINERVA is a network of Member States' Ministries to discuss, correlate and harmonise activities carried out in digitisation of cultural and scientific content for creating an agreed European common platform, recommendations and guidelines about digitisation, metadata, long-term accessibility and preservation.
REGNET: Cultural Heritage in Regional Networks
http://www.regnet.org
REGNET aims to set up a functional network of service centres in Europe which provides IT-services dedicated to Cultural Heritage organisations and will be an enabler of eBusiness activities for CH organizations.
Research Group Cartography at the Department of Geography of the Universitiy of Bonn
http://www.geographie.uni-bonn.de/karto/
We thank Prof. Dr. Alexander Zipf for the kind collaboration about the development of the Leipzig prototype.
http://www.activate.ie
ACTIVATE tested the use of new technology to open new modes of access to cultural content. Existing content resources have been digitised, and a thematic network was built.
ARCHEOGUIDE: Augmented Reality-based Cultural Heritage On-site Guide
http://archeoguide.intranet.gr
ARCHEOGUIDE builds a system providing new ways of information access at cultural heritage sites in a compelling, user-friendly way through the use of advanced IT including augmented reality, 3D-visualization, mobile computing, and multi-modal interaction.
ARCO: Augmented Representation of Cultural Objects
http://www.arco-web.org
ARCO is a research project aimed at developing technology for museums to create 3D Virtual Exhibitions on the Web. Virtual exhibitions are created by digitising museum artefacts, which are then transformed into Virtual Representations, which can be X3D or VRML models or scenes.
CHLT: Cultural Heritage Language Technologies
http://www.chlt.org
CHLT is an international collaboration which will address important questions, and offer practical solutions, regarding the creation of International Digital Library Technology (IDLT).
CIPHER: Enabling Communities of Interest to Promote Heritage of European Regions
http://cipherweb.open.ac.uk/news/index.pl
The CIPHER project aims to develop Cultural Heritage Forums, associated to regions, which empower communities to create, own and sustain online cultural content for themselves, through the provision of workable methodologies and tools for long-term development and sustainability.
COLLATE: Collaboratory for Annotation, Indexing and Retrieval of Digitized Historical Archive Material
http://www.collate.de
COLLATE aims to implement a WWW-based collaborative work environment for archives, researchers and end-users concerned with digitised cultural material. The repository focuses on historic film documentation, including censorship files, photos and film fragments. Users will take an active part in evaluating sources and adding valuable information.
COVAX: Contemporary Culture Virtual Archive in XML
http://www.covax.org
COVAX plans to combine document descriptions and digitised surrogates from libraries, archives and museum, to build a global system for search and retrieval. It will allow the widely distributed primary documents to be accessed regardless of their location.
DigiCULT: Technology challenges for Europe's cultural and scientific heritage
http://www.digicult.info/pages/info.php
DigiCULT is a project aimed to establish a regular technology watch for cultural and scientific heritage through assessment of existing and emerging technologies, in order to optimise the development, access to, and preservation of Europe's rich cultural and scientific heritage.
ENTER Conference 2008 - eTourism:The View from the Future
http://www.ifitt.org/xxl/_site/ifitt/_area/enter2008
ENTER 2008 is unique forum for academics, industry and government to present and debate state-of-the-art research and industry case studies on the application of information and communication technologies to tourism and travel.
EPOCH: the European research network of excellence in open Cultural Heritage
http://www.epoch-net.org
EPOCH is a network of about a hundred European cultural institutions joining their efforts to improve the quality and effectiveness of the use of Information and Communication Technology for innovative communication of Cultural Heritage.
iTACITUS : Intelligent Tourism and Cultural Information through Ubiquitous Services
http://itacitus.org
iTacitus is a European research project funded under the Sixth Framework Programme for information society technologies. iTacitus aims to explore ways in which information technology can be employed to encourage cultural tourism.
MINERVA
http://www.minervaeurope.org
MINERVA is a network of Member States' Ministries to discuss, correlate and harmonise activities carried out in digitisation of cultural and scientific content for creating an agreed European common platform, recommendations and guidelines about digitisation, metadata, long-term accessibility and preservation.
REGNET: Cultural Heritage in Regional Networks
http://www.regnet.org
REGNET aims to set up a functional network of service centres in Europe which provides IT-services dedicated to Cultural Heritage organisations and will be an enabler of eBusiness activities for CH organizations.
Research Group Cartography at the Department of Geography of the Universitiy of Bonn
http://www.geographie.uni-bonn.de/karto/
We thank Prof. Dr. Alexander Zipf for the kind collaboration about the development of the Leipzig prototype.