Search results for "Cultural heritage"

Some Mass Spectrometry Contributions in the Study of Cultural Heritage

1997

In the last decades the application of various scientific methods and technologies to study materials and handicrafts of historical, artistic or archaeological interest have dramatically increased. These studies contribute to successfully solve various problems of identification, dating, utilization of artistically or historically important objects.

Levels of Preservation for Cultural Heritage within an Open-air Museum

2018

In Sibiu, Romania, the Astra National Museum Complex includes an open-air museum with around 300 ethnographic monuments and a collection of almost 30,000 objects on display and in storage.Four cate...

Multimodal and Agent-Based Human–Computer Interaction in Cultural Heritage Applications: an Overview

2010

One of the most recent and interesting applications of human–computer interaction technologies is the provision of advanced information services within public places, such as cultural heritage sites or schools and university campuses. In such contexts, concurrent technologies used in smart mobile devices can be used to satisfy the mobility need of users allowing them to access relevant resources in a context-dependent manner. Of course, most of the constraints to be taken into account when designing a pervasive information providing system are given by the actual domain where they are deployed.

A Robotic Humanoid for Information Exploration on Cultural Heritage Domain

2020

The work presented here illustrates an humanoid robot capable of interacting with an human user within the Cultural Heritage domain. Two different and complementary AI approaches, namely sub-symbolic and symbolic, have been implemented and combined together to design the framework of a robot having both rational and intuitive capabilities. Furthermore, the robot is capable of providing information expressively and of adapting its behavior according to the emotional content of the artworks descriptions. This could make the robot more effective in providing information and entertaining the users.

Study and Evaluation of Pre-trained CNN Networks for Cultural Heritage Image Classification

2021

The classification of digital images is an essential task during the restoration and preservation of cultural heritage (CH). In computer vision, cultural heritage classification relies on the classification of asset images regarding a certain task such as type, artist, genre, style identification, etc. CH classification is challenging as various CH asset images have similar colors, textures, and shapes. In this chapter, the aim is to study and evaluate the use of pre-trained deep convolutional neural networks such as VGG16, VGG-19, ResNet50, and Inception-V3 for cultural heritage images classification using transfer learning techniques. The main idea is to start with CNN models previously t…

O pojęciu i znaczeniu dziedzictwa niematerialnego oraz o zjawiskach świata współczesnego, które mu zagrażają

2014

Latvian Emigrants in the United States: Different Waves, Different Identities?

2019

AbstractThis chapter studies the relationships and interaction among the Latvian emigrants from different migration waves in the United States. It specifically examines reasons for the inability of the existing and politically and culturally active Latvian diaspora community in the United States to integrate newcomers from Latvia. The diaspora community is formed mostly of migrants who left Latvia after World War II. The research is based on a mix of two sources of information and methods – qualitative analysis of in-depth interviews with the ‘new’ Latvian emigrants in the United States in 2014, who began arriving there in 1991 and quantitative data analysis of The Emigrant Communities of L…

El patrimonio y paisaje del agua de l’Horta Sud como recursos para una propuesta didáctica

2021

La Huerta de Valencia, paisaje cultural milenario, con valores ambientales, históricos, económicos, culturales y simbólicos, se presenta como un magnífico escenario sobre el que desplegar una propuesta didáctica. Una propuesta que apueste por el aprovechamiento del patrimonio cultural y paisajístico como recurso educativo. Existe toda una línea de investigación en torno al potencial educativo del patrimonio cultural y del paisaje. Tras su revisión, y tras cartografiar, inventariar y analizar los bienes patrimoniales del área de estudio, se plantea como objetivo el diseño de una propuesta didáctica articulada en torno a un itinerario por la Huerta, como estrategia de aprendizaje integral par…

Analysis of pigments from Spanish works of art using a portable EDXRF spectrometer

2002

Nowadays there is an intensive program for the conservation, restoration and analysis of the impressive and extensive Spanish cultural heritage. In the last few years, the Unidad de Arqueometria of the ICMUV has carry out a great quantity of in situ EDXRF analysis of pigments on materials of historic and cultural interest (altarpieces, frescoes, canvas, sculptures, etc.) from museums and churches of the whole of the Spanish geography. Here we present a few examples of the analysis of works of art using x-ray fluorescence spectrometry with a portable system based on x-ray tubes and a non-cryogenic Si-PIN detector. EDXRF qualitative and non-destructive analyses of stone, pigments and preparat…

Green Wrocław: Urban Narratives of Three Post-War Generations of Wrocław’s Inhabitants

2020

This study is an invitation to reflect on issues that fall within the area of collective memory, an area that awaits further in-depth analysis. More specifically, this article is a proposal of a broader study on cultural landscape and places of memory than that which is dominant in the sociological literature. In particular, I examine the relationship between the inhabitants of the Polish “Western Lands” and the material German heritage of the cities in which they happen to live. I mainly focus on the relation between socially constructed memory and greenery—a “negligible” part of the space of human life. As I demonstrate in the article, the “green” narrations about Wrocław created after Wo…