Cultivate Interactive Issue 9: Features
IST Projects:
- Who Needs Statistics? : A note on the LIBECON Project
David Fuegi gives us an expert picture of the role of the LIBECON
Project in providing library statistics for policy makers and how you can make
use of them yourselves.
- OpenHeritage: Developing cultural tourism in
lesser-known regions Salvatore Lusso writes for us about a project seeking to
create a cultural heritage community in the less well-known regions of Europe
where culture, environment and tourism represent the main resource of the area.
He explains how a revised business model and the use of technology represent a reaslistic
hope of economic development.
- PAST - Bringing archaeological sites to life
Emily Whetter reports on the PAST Project - a new
way of showing visitors to archaeological sites what life was like for their
early inhabitants.
- TREBIS - A biodiversity information system
Paul Schreilechner gives us an article on the TREBIS Project
which is working on new ways of presenting ecological insights by combining
multimedia technologies with geographic information and database systems.
- A mobile AR guide comes through:
Vassilios Vlahakis, John Karigiannis and
Nikolaos Ioannidis report on ARCHEOGUIDE, the
first mobile augmented reality guide for archeological sites and
museums.
- MESMUSES: Marco Meli
writes about an initiative to reuse innovatively the most valuable scientific
and technical heritage available in science museums so that it may serve as
an "active memory" of knowledge to be exploited in different domains.
- The Conceptual Reference Model:
Nicholas Crofts, Martin Doerr and
Tony Gill report on the CIDOC and its work on the
Conceptual Reference Model, an aid to comprehension and dialogue.
Other Areas:
Date of Page: February 2003
