Cultural Heritage Storytelling, Engagement and Management in the Era of Big Data and the Semantic Web

Abstract

Cultural heritage (CH) refers to a highly multidisciplinary research and application field, intending to collect, archive, and disseminate the traditions, monuments/artworks, and overall civilization legacies that have been preserved throughout the years of humankind [...]

Digital Technologies and the Role of Data in Cultural Heritage: The Past, the Present, and the Future

“…Many recent works try to tackle problems related to culture, cultural heritage, and cultural informatics from the perspective of big data [107][108][109][110][111][112][113]. The real question is why issues that keep existing in cultural informatics for years, are now being investigated from this perspective.…”

Theory and Applications of Web 3.0 in the Media Sector

“…At the same time, the plurality of data and news streams created urgent needs for better content documentation, validation, and management [1,4,[9][10][11][12][13][14][15]. Hence, the advancement of the Semantic Web (SW) or Web 3.0 has been envisioned as a sophisticated solution to the above problems and challenges aspiring intelligent multimedia processing, analysis, and creation techniques [4,9,10,16].…”

“…Fully structured and clarified relations to others (users, events, stories, models, etc.) will expedite data visualization and display purposes, also facilitating interoperability and integration between systems, environments, and applications, interconnecting concepts rather than just documents [4][5][6][7][8][9][10][16][17][18][19]. Thus, journalists and plenary individuals (content contributors and news consumers) will be able to efficiently discover, integrate, and reuse pieces of information from various sources.…”

“…Contemporary Semantic Web and Big Data technologies are continuously elaborated to advance multimodal data analysis concerning information classification, semantic conceptualization and contextualization, content validation, and management automations, which can be primarily deployed in the sensitive news and media domains [1][2][3][4]16,[19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29]. These modular automation and augmentation layers can fuel interaction mechanisms between corporations, machines, and individuals to accelerate crowdsourcing procedures for constructing and maintaining suitable media repositories [16,18,27,29]. Thereafter, digital literacy initiatives and audience engagement strategies can enhance the impact of SW services in the media world and the broader society.…”

Media Convergence and Museum Education in the EMODEM Project

“…This scenario is the framework of the EMODEM project based on the research started in 2019 on the sample case relating to the monumental complex of Badia a Passignano (Siena, Italy) and then in the Heritage Visual Storytelling Laboratory (HerViSt) transferred to the museum environment for designing an app based on the convergence of face detection, eye tracking and AR to make the museum experience more visitor-centered, interactive and personalized. This article integrates the EMODEM research already underway [Puma, Nicastro 2021], confirming its general objectives and updates the scientific roadmap according to the progress recently achieved in phases 3 and 4 of the project, presenting the technological innovation that has intervened in the meantime in the project and the advancement of research, which roots on three main strategic axes: -founding the cultural project on the crosscutting concept of human-centered and personalized use of digital technologies, ICT and AI, pursued through the expansion of the one-way relationship between artwork and visitor in a technologically mediated and personalized relationship between artwork, visitor and museum environment also conceived as a response to the new needs of post-covid museum management and fruition [ICOM 2020;Cicerchia et al 2021;Charalampos 2022]; -deploying the multidisciplinary scientific set of the project, centered on the relationship between Digital Cultural Heritage and AI, in its scientific links of data documentation of existing reality (Survey), visual representation of digital contents and mixed reality experiences (Drawing) for the dissemination of knowledge [Bekele et al, 2018;Digital Day 2019;Giordano et al 2021;SCIRES 2021]; -set up the workflow in a clearly and explicitly regulated way with regard to visitor privacy and data governance [UNESCO 2021].…”