Archaeological studies are a trans-disciplinary endeavor, where a number of different scientists collaborate to get a reasonable account of material artefacts, through the various phases of recovery, analysis, and, recently, also exhibition. A large amount of digital data support the whole process, and there is a high value of keeping the coherence of the information and knowledge contributed by each discipline. The paper introduces a modular computational ontology, which is in use in a comprehensive archaeological project, Beyond Archaeology. The ontology provides the information structure to all the phases of the project, from the excavation phase, to the archaeometric analyses, up to the design and the implementation of the exhibition. The computational ontology is compliant with CIDOC-CRM reference model and introduces a number of novel properties and classes to link the description of the archaeological world with the forms traditionally used by the archaeologists to record the excavation and data about findings on the field and in the lab. The forms are implemented through a CMS structured site, for the creation of a data base, that is also filled with multimedia items that are to be employed in interpretation and exhibition, respectively.

Cultural heritage management is a multiple-perspective enterprise where several disciplines and practices contribute to successful dissemination and communication. Digital data in support of cultural heritage management are addressed by the digital curation process, which has been emerging to account for the diversity of disciplinary communities and cultural heritage organizations. Digital curation addresses the diversity of participating skills and practices by working on the relationship between the cultural heritage objects and their digital counterparts. In particular, the innumerable initiatives for providing access to cultural heritage data are ideally coordinated by digital curation and are part of the process since the beginning. However, some thorough reflections on its role and implementation in cultural heritage institutions yet lack. In this paper, we provide a survey of the digital curation process, by unpacking the component curatorial tasks, with the solutions that have been proposed in the literature and in the application projects to account for the multiple perspectives at hand. CCS CONCEPTS • Human-centered computing → Collaborative interaction; Human computer interaction (HCI); • Information systems → Data management systems; Digital libraries and archives; • Social and professional topics → Management of computing and information systems.

In recent years, the transdisciplinarity of archaeological studies has greatly increased because of the mature interactions between archaeologists and scientists from different disciplines (called “archaeometers”). A number of diverse scientific disciplines collaborate to get an objective account of the archaeological records. A large amount of digital data support the whole process, and there is a great value in keeping the coherence of information and knowledge, as contributed by each intervening discipline. During the years, a number of representation models have been developed to account for the recording of the archaeological process in data bases. Lately, some semantic models, compliant with the CRMarchaeo reference model, have been developed to account for linking the institutional forms with the formal knowledge concerning the archaeological excavations and the related findings. On the contrary, the archaeometric processes have not been addressed yet in the Semantic Web community and only an upper reference model, called CRMsci, accounts for the representation of the scientific investigations in general. This paper presents a modular computational ontology for the interlinked representation of all the facts related to the archaeological and archaeometric analyses and interpretations, also connected to the recording catalogues. The computational ontology is compliant with CIDOC-CRM reference models CRMarchaeo and CRMsci and introduces a number of novel classes and properties to merge the two worlds in a joint representation. The ontology is in use in “Beyond Archaeology”, a methodological project for the establishing of a transdisciplinary approach to archaeology and archaeometry, interlinked through a semantic model of processes and objects.

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In this research, it is aspiring to come up with academicians' views on the IWB. Participant designated by purposive sampling, in order that academicians are using the IWB. Research performed by ten faculty members who work Çukurova University in the department of education. Interviews with five participants in the study have been done given a separate code for each participant in the transfer of sight "instructor_x" was used. A case study, which is one of the qualitative methods were chosen. In order to specify the reflection of the academicians, semi-structured interviews with six open-ended questions was carried out. The data were analyzed using content analysis method. The opinions of academicians have been provided with quotations and thoughts. The results of the research, visual elements, texts, simulations, and animations can be used more effectively with the help of IWB. These boards help to attract the attention and provide more active participation of students. As for implications, academicians should experience this technology and learn the successful usage about it. So, it will be a guide for all educators.