Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage

The excavation of intangible cultural heritage (ICH) contextual information carried by cultural heritage (CH) presents new possibilities with the continuous advancement of digital technology. However, when visiting CH sites, due to physical limitations or ...

This study advances the understanding of architectural heritage by introducing a novel analytical approach for classifying geometric decorations. Through the integration of image clustering and statistical analysis, the research establishes a robust ...

Enhancing public art installations with augmented reality (AR) merges the physical and digital worlds and creates a strong sense of place attachment in urban settings. AR is an established tool for digital placemaking, which is a participatory form of ...

This paper explores the representation of geospatial knowledge within narratives through a Semantic Web approach. We introduce the NOnt+Space (NOnt+S) model, an extension of the CIDOC CRM-based Narrative Ontology, which allows the representation of ...

Understanding cultural heritage by visiting cultural sites is vital to individuals and communities across the world. It is, therefore, important to create authentic learning situations where students can experience and meaningfully learn about cultural ...

Notwithstanding the increasing efforts to conserve and archive historical artefacts, comprehensive documentation employing various technologies remains crucial. Comprehensive documentation will facilitate relaying information about these locations to ...

Historical gardens, as important components of urban green spaces, have ecological, social, and significant historical heritage value. Urban residents develop close connections with nature, culture, and historical elements through landscape perception ...

This paper describes the development of the GamIN Platform, conceived to support the creation of mixed-reality location-based gamified solutions, that support the use of interactive narratives in urban space. The narratives are supported by multimedia ...

The collection, detection, and statistical analysis of massive damage information from large cultural heritage sites is an important issue that affects the progress, depth, and quality of cultural heritage protection efforts. The Ming Great Wall of China, ...

This article presents a literature review on the domain of dance research that exploits ontology artifacts to manage their domain knowledge. Any dance form around the world is rich in knowledge because of its historical and geographical diversity, ...

As digital archaeology has grown as a field of practice, so has the number of digital resources developed for specialists and non-specialists alike. However, the creation of such outputs has not always been accompanied and informed by design theory and ...

This paper explores the use of a mobile Augmented Reality (AR) exploration game to enhance immersive storytelling and enrich cultural experiences. Specifically, we present the prototype design and evaluation of HeritageSite AR, an AR exploration game for ...

The automatic analysis of images in the historical sciences often requires the identification of objects. Object identification is a well researched problem for modern photographs, however, for historical material annotations are often necessary. We ...

Generative artificial intelligence changes the paradigm of natural language processing research, sets off a new trend of research in computational humanities and computational social sciences, and provides unique perspectives on digital intelligence-...

Cultural Heritage Management (CHM) is the main vehicle for helping museums and Cultural Heritage (CH) institutions to face challenges, be resilient to climate change, energy and cost of living crisis, natural hazards and pandemic risks, and ultimately to ...

With the Poses of People in Art data set, we introduce the first openly licensed data set for estimating human poses in art and validating human pose estimators. It consists of 2,454 images from 22 art-historical depiction styles, including those that ...

We present a study and comparison of computer vision methods for the task of finding repetitive motifs in ancient Peruvian pottery. Under this context, the main difficulties for solving the task are that the motifs are in most cases highly repetitive, ...

In rural, depopulated areas, agritourism, as a development model, could serve the goal of non- exclusively seasonal tourism while creating additional economic opportunities for the locals who are mainly engaged in agriculture. Kasos is an isolated island ...

We introduce an innovative multiresolution framework for encoding and interactively visualizing large relightable images using a neural reflectance model derived from a state-of-the-art technique. The framework is seamlessly integrated into a scalable ...

Classical Chinese poetry, as an essential aspect of cultural heritage, exhibits rich theme diversity often overlooked in natural language processing research. To address this gap, we aim to explore the classification of thematic categories within this ...

Puntland is a critically relevant and yet virtually unexplored region for the past of Eastern Africa. Here we present a newly documented cave with multi-layered rock art found surveying Nugaal region, Somalia, in the framework of an international project ...

In this paper we describe and evaluate a VR application, designed with a novel approach that allows personalized interaction and a more immersive virtual experience. This VR system uses both a user-based methodology in which the user expresses his/her ...

Large parts of museum collections, particularly in the Netherlands, are a legacy of the colonial past, guiding people’s societal perceptions of cultures and histories. There have been increasing efforts to ensure that museums acknowledge and reveal to ...

Recently, cultural institutions have seen a rise in citizen curation projects, where people actively engage in curating and interpreting cultural artifacts. Citizen curation involves using collective knowledge and shared interests to create rich ...

Preserving and safeguarding the Cultural Heritage (CH) of our world from unforeseen hazards should be viewed as a collective responsibility for humanity. Consequently, there is a growing imperative for targeted measures aimed at conserving, restoring, and ...

The rapid development of generative artificial intelligence has brought significant opportunities for the advancement of digital humanities research. Intelligent processing of ancient texts, as an essential part of digital humanities, is also undergoing a ...

This paper presents a new interactive installation, the BiographScope, meant to immerse visitors in an archival collection of early silent films from the turn of the twentieth century. It further investigates certain important aspects through a pilot ...

The EU H2020 project SPICE (Social cohesion, Participation, and Inclusion through Cultural Engagement) focuses on developing, designing, and implementing new methods and digital tools for citizen curation. This paper delineates several software tools ...

Digitising The Deep Past (DDP) is an interdisciplinary project based at Griffith University, Australia, that innovates in three areas: Indigenous cultural heritage, Indigenous education, and Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI). The ...

The teaching and learning of architectural heritage can play a vital role in engaging students in envisioning the past and nurturing their cultural identity. However, this endeavour often faces challenges stemming from limited access to heritage sites and ...

The use of Internet of Things (IoT) technology to improve access to cultural heritage sites and enhance visitor engagement has become increasingly popular. Nevertheless, there is a lack of studies evaluating the actual benefits of such technology on ...