- Descripción
- Throughout Europe there are many cultures that are locally defined within communities. These cultures are often expressed through formal bodies such as libraries, museums,
small cultural institutions, artistic groups, etc. Before the emergence of Information and Communication Technologies (Ids), the cultural collections of these communities were exposed to the public only on a local level and on a "visiting-only-basis", meaning that one had to be physically present in the exposure area (e.g. in the museum premises), in order to be able to browse the collection. Furthermore, there were many personal collections (e.g. personal archives, handwritten documents, etc) that remained unpublished and unknown to the public, mostly because there was no simple and effective way of promoting and exposing one's private collection.
With the advent of the ICTs, new ways were offered to local communities to capture and render their cultural heritage more efficiently and to share this heritage with other communities, locally, nationally and even internationally through the World Wide Web. Furthermore, the relationship of the public with the exposing entities (museums, libraries,
etc.) was strengthened and became more interactive, collaborative, since the citizens were offered the ability to contribute their histories, experiences and knowledge to the cultural heritage of their local community.
However, evidence shows that current implementations of information systems in local cultural heritage institutions, which exploit the capabilities of the World Wide Web, in order to share and expose their collections, often lack in structure, consistence and interoperability. Most cases include simple web site implementations offering a small set
of services to the Users such as simple 'link-lists' to external resources, or, in the best of cases, search-and-retrieve functionality from a small relational database.
The main issue that COINΕ is called to deal with is the development of an efficient networked environment that will enable individuals and small communities to take full advantage of most, or all, of the capabilities that are offered by the current ICTs. Enabling people to tell and contribute their stories, knowledge and experiences to their local community through an interactive interface and then offering them the capability to share this knowledge with other individuals through the exploitation of inter-community links, is regarded as one of the core service that the COINΕ environment will be designed to offer.
The system that will be developed, during the project, will give users the opportunity to use and to combine their own material with the material that is disposed, through cultural bodies or other web resources. Also, the users will be able to create their own cultural stories emerging the unknown, until today, elements of the cultural heritage.
- Autor
- Μπάλιου, Ανθή
- Κολοβός, Φίλιππος
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- Conference Paper
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