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Palermo Arabo-Normanna e le cattedrali di Cefalù e Monreale (due volumi)
2018
Dossier e Piano di Gestione per l'iscrizione, nella W.H.L. UNESCO di: Palermo arabo-normanna e le cattedrali di Cefalù e Monreale, W.H.L. La Palermo arabo-normanna mantiene viva la memoria di una città aperta, multietnica, riflesso e manifestazione di un sincretismo culturale che, nei secoli, l’ha resa unica e meritevole di essere custodita, valorizzata e riconosciuta come un autentico “gioiello”, patrimonio dell’umanità. Tra i monumenti arabo-normanni presenti nel sito UNESCO, ne sono stati selezionati nove che preservano in modo pressoché integrale le componenti architettoniche e decorative. Si tratta infatti delle opere più rappresentative e artisticamente rilevanti nelle quali è possibi…
The Resilience of the Valley of Temples Among Natural Calamities and Social Disaster
2017
Preservation of the cultural heritage, intended as common patrimony, is a cultural achievement that in territories like Sicily, which has often suffered the lack of legality, is the result of a difficult process of implementation. Cultural heritage is not ruined exclusively by natural calamities: damages caused by social and cultural disasters may at times be even more devastating. The archeological park of Agrigento, born in 1947 after a natural disaster (a landslide in 1944), hides a history of a half century of battles between the illegal land use and legislative measures to protect a cultural heritage recognized worldwide (registered in the WHL in 1997). After fifty years of attacks aga…
FOR SOMETHING THAT WAS OURS… NOW IT BELONGS TO ALL OF HUMANITY”: WORLD HERITAGE AS THE EXPRESSION OF CONFLICTS
2020
Resumen: En este artículo nos interesa reflexionar sobre la naturaleza conflictiva del patrimonio, que suele ser silenciada por su potente imaginario como capital cultural, económico y social y como signo de distinción. A través de un análisis detallado del proceso mediante el cual el tango y las fallas pasaron a formar parte de la Lista Representativa del Patrimonio de la Humanidad, nos adentramos en las dimensiones hegemónicas y de los procesos patrimoniales, así como en la esencia beligerante de las resistencias locales que se enfrentan a las lógicas del patrimonio neoliberal. Estos casos nos permiten vislumbrar las relaciones conflictivas que a menudo se establecen entre distintas lógic…
Digital Heritage Enrichment through Artificial Intelligence and SemanticWeb Technologies
2019
Art and culture represent substantial ways to transfer the history of humans across civilizations and epochs. Preserving artwork and cultural objects is thus important and the focus of multiple institutions and governments around the world. Digital preservation in cultural heritage represents a cost-effective and reliable long-term preservation and several challenges related to its effectiveness and its reliability have arisen such as metadata enrichment, digital curation, link discoveries, etc. Through this paper, we discuss these challenges and present innovative ways that leverage recent endeavors in artificial intelligence and semantic web technologies to enrich cultural data. Our contr…
Bridging Heritage and Tourist UX: A Socially-Driven Perspective
2016
The paper illustrates the potential of smart-phones as a medium of exchange of memories and experiences. Our application aims at providing diverse types of cultural user experience: to enable tourists to explore new places from a social-driven perceptive; to support new forms of connection and interaction between users and information (data exchange, contents sharing, feedback); to compose interactive narrative conveying the richness of information of interest to the user; to allow users to experience the narrative and underlying physical environment as a mixed-reality experience while allowing for deeper, context-specific exploration at any time through AR system.
Exploiting multimodality for intelligent mobile access to pervasive services in cultural heritage sites
2010
In this chapter the role of multimodality in intelligent, mobile guides for cultural heritage environments is discussed. Multimodal access to information contents enables the creation of systems with a higher degree of accessibility and usability. A multimodal interaction may involve several human interaction modes, such as sight, touch and voice to navigate contents, or gestures to activate controls. We first start our discussion by presenting a timeline of cultural heritage system evolution, spanning from 2001 to 2008, which highlights design issues such as intelligence and context-awareness in providing information. Then, multimodal access to contents is discussed, along with problems an…
ACCESSIBILITY TO UNDERWATER CULTURAL HERITAGE: INTERACTIVE WEB NAVIGATION OF THE ROMAN SUBMERSED VESSEL OF CALA MINNOLA
2021
The possibilities offered by photogrammetric reconstruction based on computer vision algorithms allowed in recent years to develop new interesting solutions for the use and dissemination of knowledge on Cultural Heritage (CH). In the same way, the recent technological development in the field of Virtual Reality (VR) has offered new possibilities for the creation of interactive virtual environments which can be freely accessed via the browser using any type of device. These technologies acquire an additional relevance if applied to archaeological sites or monuments that are difficult to access, or even totally inaccessible, except by specialized personnel. In this case the virtual fruition o…
STUDY OF CAPILLARY ABSORPTION KINETICS BY X-RAY CT IMAGING TECHNIQUES: A SURVEY ON SEDIMENTARY ROCKS OF SICILY
2008
Sedimentary rocks are natural porous materials with a great percent of microscopic interconnected pores: they contain fluids, permitting their movement on macroscopic scale. Generally, these rocks present porosity higher then metamorphic rocks. Under certain points of view, this feature represents an advantage; on the other hand, this can constitute an obstacle for cultural heritage applications, because the porosity grade can lead to a deterioration of the lapideous monument for water capillary absorption. In this paper, CT (Computerized Tomography) image techniques are applied to capillary absorption kinetics in sedimentary rocks utilized for the Greek temples as well as baroc monuments, …