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Museums as disseminators of niche knowledge: Universality in accessibility for all
2019
Accessibility has faced several challenges within audiovisual translation Studies and gained great opportunities for its establishment as a methodologically and theoretically well-founded discipline. Initially conceived as a set of services and practices that provides access to audiovisual media content for persons with sensory impairment, today accessibility can be viewed as a concept involving more and more universality thanks to its contribution to the dissemination of audiovisual products on the topic of marginalisation. Against this theoretical backdrop, accessibility is scrutinised from the perspective of aesthetics of migration and minorities within the field of the visual arts in mu…
Microbial deposits in the aftermath of the end-Permian mass extinction: A diverging case from the Mineral Mountains (Utah, USA)
2015
40 pages; International audience; The Lower Triassic Mineral Mountains area (Utah, USA) preserves diversified Smithian and Spathian reefs and bioaccumulations that contain fenestral-microbialites and various benthic and pelagic organisms. Ecological and environmental changes during the Early Triassic are commonly assumed to be associated with numerous perturbations (productivity changes, acidifica-tion, redox changes, hypercapnia, eustatism and temperature changes) post-dating the Permian–Triassic mass extinction. New data acquired in the Mineral Mountains sediments provide evidence to decipher the relationships between depositional environments and the growth and distribution of microbial …
Activity against Microorganisms Affecting Cellulosic Objects of the Volatile Constituents of Leonotis nepetaefolia from Nicaragua
2014
The chemical composition of the essential oil from aerial parts of L. nepetaefolia (L.) R. Br. collected in Nicaragua was evaluated by GC and GC-MS. The main components were ( Z)-phytol (22.8%), caryophyllene oxide (18.9%) and hexahydrofarnesylacetone (9.0%). The antibacterial activity against several Gram + and Gram - bacteria, including Bacillus cereus and B. subtilis, both infesting historical cellulosic material, was also determined. B. cereus, B. subtilis and Staphylococcus epidermis were the most affected by the action of the oil.
Documentación 3D de abrigos rupestres a partir de láser escáner y de procesos fotogramétricos automatizados
2013
[EN] Metric and graphic documentation of archaeological cultural heritage requires effective solutions for archiving, visualization, analysis, management, and monitoring of different monuments and sites. This paper presents the geomatic workflow undertaken on a singular rock art site, Coves de la Saltadora. The cave is part of the Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula declared World Heritage Site by UNESCO in1998. The different steps are reviewed, starting from the data acquisition until the final delivery of part of the metric outputs such as 3D models, photorealistic models, orthophoto mosaics in two levels, general and detail.
Il Museo Diocesano
2019
Viene presentato il percorso del Museo Diocesano di Monreale, sito nel Palazzo Arcivescovile e in stretto dialogo con il duomo. Dal salone San Placido, che accoglie molte opere provenienti dalle chiese in disuso o in abbandono della Arcidiocesi di Monreale, dominato tra l’altro dal grande arazzo raffigurante Il sogno di Guglielmo, alle sale dei piani successivi: la sala Normanna, quella rinascimentale, la sala dedicata al collezionista Salvatore Renda Pitti, che donò la sua importante raccolta alla Diocesi di Monreale, il grande salone dedicato alla committenza dei vescovi, tra i quali emerge la figura di Ludovico II Torres. La visita si completa nella cappella Roano che raccoglie tutte le …
Da Riccardo Quartararo a Cristoforo Faffeo. Un capolavoro del Museo Diocesano di Palermo restaurato e riscoperto
2016
Il volume, concepito secondo una metodologia multidisciplinare, propone all'attenzione degli studiosi nuovi dati per la conoscenza di una tavola dipinta dell'ultimo quarto del XV secolo proveniente al Museo Diocesano di Palermo dalla Cattedrale; finora attribuita a Riccardo Quartararo e identificata come Santa Cecilia solo per la presenza dell'angelo musico, l'opera viene qui correttamente riconosciuta, dopo il restauro, come Santa Barbara per l'imponente torre retrostante e attribuita al pittore napoletano Cristoforo Faffeo sulla base non solo di analogie stilistico-formali, ma di evidenze tecnico-esecutive e scientifiche nel confronto con altre opere riferite allo stesso e al Quartararo; …
The Museum of the Climate of Beniarrés (Alicante). Proposal of a didactic resource for teaching Climatology
2017
Las visitas escolares a centros de interpretación se han convertido en los últimos años en uno de los mejores recursos didácticos para llevar a la práctica lo aprendido en el aula. El trabajo que aquí se presenta tiene como objetivo potenciar y ofrecer el Museo del Clima de Beniarrés (Alicante) como un recurso didáctico para la asignatura de Geografía (o afines) en la que se aborden aspectos relacionados con la Climatología y su relación con el medio y la sociedad con la explicación de ejemplos y experiencias, tanto por parte del alumnado como del profesorado. Este museo se convierte en uno de los primeros centros con finalidad didáctica de esta tipología en España. Como conclusión, cabe in…
Designing a mobile app for museums according to the drivers of visitor satisfaction
2013
The aim of this study is to identify the key factors as antecedents of visitor satisfaction for the design of a mobile app for museums. To our aim we use the Kano model that allows to categorize service attributes according to how they are perceived by customers and to estimate their impact on customer satisfaction. We collected qualitative data trough 300 questionnaires administered to tourists visiting the Sicilian cities of Palermo and Trapani over a period of 3 months (October- December 2012). The results of our analysis can be relevant for museum and public managers to plan strategic and operative activities, for researcher in the field of touristic marketing, for application developer…
The temple of visual culture and people with visual impairments: museum accessibility as mental colonization
Accessibility raises political and cultural questions about inclusion and inclusive practices. Museums worldwide now offer multisensory access programs for people with visual impairments, which could appear as an actual implementation of the purpose of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities of full inclusion and respect of disabled pleople as part of human diversity. However, by focusing on touch, they often passively exclude people with visual impairments because of their foundation in ocularcentric assumptions about knowledge, misconceptions about visual impairments, and aesthetic and epistemological potential of other 'senses'. Differently, approaches deeply aware of s…
Crowdsourcing Cultural Heritage: From 3D Modeling to the Engagement of Young Generations
2016
Monitoring, digitizing and archiving museum artworks represent an important socio-cultural accomplishment and an overcoming in digital preservation today. Cultural heritage is constantly under threat of terrorist attacks and natural disaster. The high costs related to documentation task have prevented a constantly and massive survey activity. The low cost 3D image based acquisition and elaboration techniques of an object, allow to carry out a 3D photorealistic model in a short time. Therefore, a lot of museum adopted these techniques for the artworks archiving. Crowdsourcing activities can significantly speed up survey and elaboration procedures. If, on the one hand, these initiatives can h…