Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage

Over the last two decades, libraries and archives of natural history museums and botanical gardens in the US have spent major efforts to digitize their holdings. However, transporting these digitized resources from individual repositories to a wider ...

Recent advancements in optical metrology have enabled continuous documentation of dense 3-dimensional (3D) point clouds of construction projects, including cultural heritage preservation projects. These point clouds must then be further processed to ...

The emergence of new online media has promoted the communication of public cultural information, and systematic evaluation of its communication effectiveness has become an increasingly important research topic. This article aims to enrich and improve the ...

Multi-area visitor counting plays a critical role in museum management, which can help administrative staff better study visitor flows and hotspots, so that they can ensure the quality and safety of visits. Internet of Things (IoT) techniques facilitate ...

Among the great variety of our Cultural Heritage, photographic and cinematographic materials are fundamental and direct witnesses of the past. As often happens when dealing with materials of cultural interest, even photographic and cinematographic films ...

Two practical methods for implementing spectral imaging within the framework of museum studio photography were investigated. Imaging was carried out using a consumer RGB digital camera paired with either (1) colored glass filters and a broadband source or ...

Point clouds resulting from digital scanning are increasingly being used in the heritage field to create knowledge-based models, such as building information models (BIM). Nevertheless, the use of digital image processing techniques in point cloud ...

Three-voiced funeral songs from Svaneti in North-West Georgia (also referred to as Zär) are believed to represent one of Georgia’s oldest preserved forms of collective music-making. Throughout a Zär performance, the singers often jointly and intentionally ...

The U.S. Patent Office maintains an archive of cultural artifacts of both ornamental and functional designs. Design patents protect “any new, original, and ornamental design for an article of manufacture” [23] such as busts, statues, and the shape or ...

Mobile technology offers new opportunities to enhance the visitor experience in museums. Mobile serious games can support experiential learning with authentic exhibits in an authentic museum environment based on the contextual learning model with the ...

Human pose estimation (HPE) is a central part of understanding the visual narration and body movements of characters depicted in artwork collections, such as Greek vase paintings. Unfortunately, existing HPE methods do not generalise well across domains ...

This article explores the use of digital storytelling in the classroom to frame inquiry-based learning with digital museum collections. It presents the final in a series of three interventions that were part of doctoral research that tested the ...

Disorganised and self-organised crowdsourcing activities that harness collective behaviours to achieve a specific level of performance and task completeness are not well understood. Such phenomena become indistinct when highly varied environments are ...

The wide adoption of digital technologies in the cultural heritage sector has promoted the emergence of new, distributed ways of working, communicating, and investigating cultural products and services. In particular, collaborative online platforms and ...

Epistolary data about historical letters are typically distributed in different archives depending on where the letters were sent to and received, and the data are represented using local heterogeneous data models and different natural languages. To study ...

For Chinaware fragments, it is difficult to assemble them directly without considering the wonderful patterns painted on them. Given the simplicity of the Chinaware designs, each object contains similar textures and patterns. Compared to the oddly diverse ...