Digital Cultural Content Research Articles

Towards Models and Tools to Increase and Customize Visitors' Experiences in a Digital Cultural Content Management System

The current project is aimed at seeking new knowledge and achieving scientific results in the field of visitor experiences, visualization techniques, eLearning, storytelling, and serious games / gamification. The aim will be achieved through the use of scientific and research approaches and methodology in the field of ICT and informatics. Project results are models and tools for contextual use of digital cultural resources for learning purposes with support and customization of user experiences in digital systems and repositories.

Ubiquitous Access to Digital Cultural Heritage

The digitization initiatives in the past decades have led to a tremendous increase in digitized objects in the cultural heritage domain. Although digitally available, these objects are often not easily accessible for interested users because of the distributed allocation of the content in different repositories and the variety in data structure and standards. When users search for cultural content, they first need to identify the specific repository and then need to know how to search within this platform (e.g., usage of specific vocabulary). The goal of the EEXCESS project is to design and implement an infrastructure that enables ubiquitous access to digital cultural heritage content. Cultural content should be made available in the channels that users habitually visit and be tailored to their current context without the need to manually search multiple portals or content repositories. To realize this goal, open-source software components and services have been developed that can either be used as an integrated infrastructure or as modular components suitable to be integrated in other products and services. The EEXCESS modules and components comprise (i) Web-based context detection, (ii) information retrieval-based, federated content aggregation, (iii) metadata definition and mapping, and (iv) a component responsible for privacy preservation. Various applications have been realized based on these components that bring cultural content to the user in content consumption and content creation scenarios. For example, content consumption is realized by a browser extension generating automatic search queries from the current page context and the focus paragraph and presenting related results aggregated from different data providers. A Google Docs add-on allows retrieval of relevant content aggregated from multiple data providers while collaboratively writing a document. These relevant resources then can be included in the current document either as citation, an image, or a link (with preview) without having to leave disrupt the current writing task for an explicit search in various content providers’ portals.

The effect of digital cultural tourism content characteristics on impulse visit and revisit intention

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of digital cultural tourism content characteristics on impulse visit and revisit intention. For this, data were collected from 220 tourists who had bought online digital contents about culture and tourism and visited the related destinations in Seoul from March 8 to March 25, 2016. The results of the survey reveal that digital cultural tourism content characteristics (visual appeal, musicality, creation, entertainment) are positively associated with the impulse visit and revisit intention of tourists. Second, those same content characteristics are positively associated with the revisit intention of tourists. Third, the impulse to visit positively affects the revisit intention of tourists. Last, applications and related limitations are discussed. The results suggest that culture tourism companies should consider the importance of digital cultural tourism content characteristics.

Hybrid three-dimensional representation based on panoramic images and three-dimensional models for a virtual museum: Data collection, model, and visualization

As an important part of the public service and educational infrastructures for national culture and heritage culture, a virtual museum presents the user experience of a real museum, with visitors, educators, and tourists interacting with the prepared digital culture contents by a mouse, touch panel, and other augmented reality devices. The goal of virtual museum is to help students and visitors to move around the virtual museum space freely and generate experience and satisfaction from the fruition of cultural heritage anytime, anywhere, and from any device. This study presents a hybrid three-dimensional virtual museum based on panoramic images and three-dimensional models. A technical framework of hybrid three-dimensional virtual museum is proposed on the basis of a typical three-tier architecture, which includes the data layer, technique supporting layer, and application layer. A hybrid three-dimensional data organization approach with geo-referenced sequence panoramic images and three-dimensional models is designed to build the data layer of hybrid three-dimensional virtual museum. A three-dimensional scene of geo-referenced sequence panoramic images and three-dimensional models is created in real time using Unity three-dimensional and web service under the mobile Internet environment for hybrid three-dimensional virtual museum. The different applications of hybrid three-dimensional virtual museum based on the data layer and technique infrastructure are designed to achieve handheld virtual museum guidance and navigation, three-dimensional browsing, and heritage culture information query for visitors with smartphones to access anytime and anywhere. As an example, a hybrid three-dimensional virtual museum application for Jinsha Archaeological Site Museum is developed with the proposed approach. The geo-referenced sequence panoramic images of museum galleries, together with three-dimensional models of cultural relics, can integrate seamlessly to a three-dimensional reality-based museum space where users can move around the space actively and freely with all kinds of personal computer and smartphone clients.

Opening Access to collections: the making and using of open digitised cultural content

Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to situate the activity of digitisation to increase access to cultural and heritage content alongside the objectives of the Open Access Movement (OAM). It demonstrates that increasingly open licensing of digital cultural heritage content is creating opportunities for researchers in the arts and humanities for both access to and analysis of cultural heritage materials.Design/methodology/approach– The paper is primarily a literature and scoping review of the current digitisation licensing climate, using and embedding examples from ongoing research projects and recent writings on Open Access (OA) and digitisation to highlight both opportunities and barriers to the creation and use of digital heritage content from galleries, libraries, archives and museums (GLAM).Findings– The digital information environment in which digitised content is created and delivered has changed phenomenally, allowing the sharing and reuse of digital data and encouraging new advances in research across the sector, although issues of licensing persist. There remain further opportunities for understanding how to: study use and users of openly available cultural and heritage content; disseminate and encourage the uptake of open cultural data; persuade other institutions to contribute their data into the commons in an open and accessible manner; build aggregation and search facilities to link across information sources to allow resource discovery; and how best to use high-performance computing facilities to analyse and process the large amounts of data the author is now seeing being made available throughout the sector.Research limitations/implications– It is hoped that by pulling together this discussion, the benefits to making material openly available have been made clear, encouraging others in the GLAM sector to consider making their collections openly available for reuse and repurposing.Practical implications– This paper will encourage others in the GLAM sector to consider licensing their collections in an open and reusable fashion. By spelling out the range of opportunities for researchers in using open cultural and heritage materials it makes a contribution to the discussion in this area.Social implications– Increasing the quantity of high-quality OA resources in the cultural heritage sector will lead to a richer research environment which will increase the understanding of history, culture and society.Originality/value– This paper has pulled together, for the first time, an overview of the current state of affairs of digitisation in the cultural and heritage sector seen through the context of the OAM. It has highlighted opportunities for researchers in the arts, humanities and social and historical sciences in the embedding of open cultural data into both their research and teaching, whilst scoping the wave of cultural heritage content which is being created from institutional repositories which are now available for research and use. As such, it is a position paper that encourages the open data agenda within the cultural and heritage sector, showing the potentials that exists for the study of culture and society when data are made open.

4D Reconstruction of Tangible Cultural Heritage Objects from Web-Retrieved Images

The number of digital images that are available online today has reached unprecedented levels. Recent statistics showed that by the end of 2013 there were over 250 billion photographs stored in just one of the major social media sites, with a daily average upload of 300 million photos. These photos, apart from documenting personal lives, often relate to experiences in well-known places of cultural interest, throughout several periods of time. Thus from the viewpoint of Cultural Heritage professionals, they constitute valuable and freely available digital cultural content. Advances in the fields of Photogrammetry and Computer Vision have led to significant breakthroughs such as the Structure from Motion algorithm which creates 3D models of objects using their 2D photographs. The existence of powerful and affordable computational machinery enables the reconstruction not only of single structures such as artefacts, but also of entire cities. This paper presents an overview of our methodology for producing cost-effective 4D – i.e. in space and time – models of Cultural Heritage structures such as monuments and artefacts from 2D data (pictures, video) and semantic information, freely available ‘in the wild’, i.e. in Internet repositories and social media. State-of-the-art methods from Computer Vision, Photogrammetry, 3D Reconstruction and Semantic representation are incorporated in an innovative workflow with the main goal to enable historians, architects, archaeologists, urban planners and other cultural heritage professionals to reconstruct cost-effective views of historical structures out of the billions of free images floating around the web and subsequently interact with those reconstructions.

A Data Infrastructure for Digital Cultural Heritage: Characteristics, Requirements and Priority Services

The European amount of digitized material is growing very rapidly, as national, regional and European programmes support the digitization processes by museums, libraries, archives, archaeological sites, and audiovisual repositories. The generation of digital cultural heritage is accelerated also by the impulse of Europeana that is fostering the European cultural institutions to produce even more digital content. Moreover digital cultural heritage content are complex and interlinked through many relations. European countries are working for the future, in order to create a data infrastructure devoted to cultural heritage research. Currently, Europe have twin projects (DC-NET and INDICATE) ongoing and a new international coordination action is under preparation to design a validated roadmap for the preservation of digital cultural content. These initiatives are contributing to smooth the way to the Open Science Infrastructure for Digital Cultural Heritage, which is foreseen in 2020.

Digital Cultural Heritage and the Crowd

AbstractLibraries, archives, and museums have a long history of collaboration with members of the public. There is already considerable interest in extending this relationship, inviting members of the public, often referred to as “the crowd,” to tag and classify, transcribe, organize, and otherwise add value to digital cultural heritage collection content. In this essay, current discussions of crowdsourcing are connected with the mission and values of cultural heritage organizations and a framework is offered for thinking about distinct components of different kinds of projects that have been lumped together.

Use of Digital Cultural and Scientific Content in Education - A Research Project under the "Memory of Slovakia" Centre Of Excellence

The paper deals with a sub-project of the Memory of Slovakia research and development project focused on cultural heritage related to Slovakia and preserved in Slovak memory and heritage institutions, and its preservation and use by numerous types of users, especially in new contexts of digital media based education in primary and secondary schools of the Slovak Republic.

Copyright and IPR management for cultural heritage digital content in peer-to-peer networks

As a general and effective protection measure for copyright violations, which occur with the use of digital technologies including peer-to-peer (P2P) networks, copyright owners from the cultural sector often use Digital Rights Management (DRM) systems and digital watermarking techniques so as to encrypt copyright information to the cultural content. In other cases, copyright owners restrict or even block access to the digital cultural content through the Internet and the P2P infrastructure. This chapter claims that DRM and P2P can be quite complementary. Specifically, a P2P infrastructure is presented which allows broad digital cultural content exchange while on the same time supports copyright protection and management through watermarking technologies for digital images.

문화콘텐츠개발을 위한 한국 전통신발의 2D데이터베이스 구축(1)

Research materials of Korean traditional shoes have so far been mainly literary explanations or plane pictures expressed on the basis of the explanations and photographs of incomplete forms of relics excavated and it makes us have difficulty in observing them visually and producing products with them by design application. This project is to establish database of literal data of Korean traditional shoes and visual data using 3D in order to make the foundation of developing culture industry contents using Korean traditional shoes. According to the initial research plan. first. it analyzed and arranged the Korean traditional shoes into period. sex and function as the research goals of the first year. categorized the form. composition. materials. patterns. and colors of traditional shoes and then database of the materials was performed with text. Second. visual image materials including forms. composition. materials. patterns. and colors of traditional shoes were established as database with scanner. digital camera and computer 2D. Results of such a database will be able to be used as important materials which can be the foundation of culture industry contents development of traditional shoes and be the materials for developing digital culture contents of traditional shoes and teaching Korean traditional culture.

Exploring ways to enhance permanent and collaborative learning by reusing online digital content

Starting from two experiences focused on exploring ways to direct permanent and collaborative learning using digital content, we outline ways of learning that are fed by the Internet's culture of participation. The first experience is based on the content produced for various Summer Courses at the University of the Basque Country in San Sebastián, Spain, and is directed at enriching participants’ learning process. The second experience is set within the context of reusing the digital cultural content available on the Internet and aims to offer narrative channels that direct the construction of shared meaning from various sources. In both cases, we put our primary focus on searching for the dynamics and spaces that encourage participants to approach content from an active, questioning and transformative perspective.

경북 문화콘텐츠산업의 현황과 육성 방향

경북 문화콘텐츠산업은 소비지향적 구조, 영세성, 부족한 인프라, 불균형, 전략 부재 등의 문제점을 안고 있다. 하지만, 경북 문화콘텐츠산업은 풍부한 문화자원, 문화콘텐츠산업의 전망, 미래의 효과적인 육성전략으로 인해서 그 가능성이 크다고 할 수 있다. 그리고 육성방안으로는 문화원형의 디지털화, 유교 문화의 에듀테인먼트, 전통문화디지털센터의 구축, 장소마케팅, 다큐영상원 건립, 문화 리터러시, 작은 영상 지향, 글로벌 도시와 문화거점 도시의 육성, 킬러 콘텐츠 개발, 관광자원 개발, 차별화 전략 등이 있다. 문화콘텐츠산업은 고부가가치, 관련 산업에 대한 영향력, 디지털문화콘텐츠의 효용성, 시장 규모의 확대, 빠른 성장속도 등의 측면에서 경북도 문화콘텐츠산업을 적극적으로 육성해야 할 필요성이 있다. Culture contents industry in Gyeongbuk province has consumption system, being small-scale, an lacking infrastructure, imbalance, a shortage of strategy, and so on. But, culture contents industry in Gyeongbuk province has great possibilities in abundant culture resources, a prospect of the culture contents industry and future effective promotion strategy. And the promotion plans are the digitalization of the cultural original form, the edutainment of the Confucianism culture, construction of a traditional cultural digital center, location marketing, establishment of Documentary Film Council, culture literacy, an orientation of small film, promotion of the global city and the culture base city, development of killer contents, exploitation of tourism resource, discriminating strategy, and so on. Actually Gyeongbuk province should need to promote the culture contents industry because of high added value, an effect on related industries, utility of the digital culture contents, extension of a market scale, a rapid growth speed, and so on.

Collaboration: Paradigm of the Digital Cultural Content Environment

ABSTRACT Government grant-funding agencies have spawned an explosion of images from historical collections on the Internet. They have encouraged collaborative projects in which institutions share resources for capital-intensive digitization projects. These Web “exhibits” are neither publications nor exhibits in the traditional sense, most often without identified authors, curators, designers, or sources. Reviews in journal literature are one mechanism for accountability, but not all humanities journals offer exhibit reviews. In those that do, the space allocated in history and archival studies journals reveals the relative importance they place on peer review of these exhibits, compared with that for book reviews. The type of analysis in these reviews is nearly always strictly textual and does not address the interplay of text, image, and design in Web exhibits. The lack of historical context for visual sources in digital media is of concern for those in the archival, art history, and other cultural studies disciplines and professions. Sheer numbers of digitized items may be a worthy goal for textual materials; visual sources require interpretation and context to render the complexities of their meaning. Collaboration on digitization projects must go beyond financial resource sharing to include involvement of experts in content areas for visual resources.

A Cultivation Policy of Leader Company in Digital Culture Contents Industry of Jeju Region

A Cultivation Policy of Leader Company in Digital Culture Contents Industry of Jeju Region

Using Ancillary Text to Index Web-based Multimedia Objects

PeriCulture is the name of a research project at the Universite de Montreal which is part of a larger project based at the Universite de Sherbrooke. The parent project aimed to form a research network for managing Canadian digital cultural content. The general research objective of PeriCulture was to study indexing methods for web-based non-textual cultural content, specifically still images. The research results reported here build on work in image indexing and automatic (text) indexing by studying properties of text associated with images in a networked environment to try to gain some understanding of how the ancillary text associated with images on web pages can be exploited to index the corresponding images. We studied this question in the context of selected web sites, i.e. that contained multimedia objects, that had text associated with these objects (broader than file names and captions), that were bilingual (English and French), and that housed Canadian digital cultural content. We identified keywords that were useful in indexing and studied their proximity to the object described. Potential indexing terms were identified in various HTML tags and full text (each considered a different source of ancillary text). Our study found that a large number of useful indexing terms are available in the ancillary text of many web sites with cultural content, and that ancillary text of different sources have variable usefulness in retrieval. Our results suggest that these terms can be manipulated in a number of ways in automated retrieval systems to improve search results.

Business model issues in the development of digital cultural content

This paper examines business model aspects of digitizing cultural content. It is based in large part on a Study conducted by the author and his colleagues for the Department of Canadian Heritage. Based on data collected from several cultural institutions regarding their efforts to digitize content, the study found that implications for the cost side have been significant, leading to explorations of facilities and content sharing programs, formalized budgeting, the need for better copyright expertise and improved mid to long term planning. On the revenue (funding) side, a clear need for more rigorous assessments of user demand emerged. In addition, the possibility of revisiting organizational mandates was identified, as well as various revenue-generating opportunities including sponsorship, user-fees and private/public sector partnerships.

Digital Heritage and Cultural Content in Europe

(2002). Digital Heritage and Cultural Content in Europe. Museum International: Vol. 54, No. 4, pp. 41-51.

인터넷상의 디지털 문화컨텐츠 분류방안에 관한 연구

본 연구는 디지털 환경하에서 디지털 문화 컨텐츠를 재정의하고 문화컨텐츠 산업의 범위를 구분하였다. 또한, 현재 5개 인터넷 검색엔진을 선정해서 문화컨텐츠 분류현황을 분류체계조건, 주제의 논리성을 기준으로 분석한 후 새로운 분류방안을 마련함으로써 정보 및 문화컨텐츠의 효율적인 검색 및 관리를 위한 기초자료를 제공하고자 하였다. This paper starts by exploring the definition and scope of digital culture contents under digital environments. It then analyzes the classification system of search engines about digital culture contents in terms of subject catagories and the number of web documents. Finally, this study suggests the recommendations for effective retreival and management of digital culture contents.

Re-inventing the Wheel? Standards, Interoperability and Digital Cultural Content

Re-inventing the Wheel? Standards, Interoperability and Digital Cultural Content