Culturaitalia, the Italian National Content Aggregator in Europeana

Giorgio, Sara Di

doi:10.1016/j.procs.2014.10.008

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“…Directly quoting the official website, its mission is to "empower the cultural heritage sector in its digital transformation" and "develop expertise, tools, and policies to embrace digital change and encourage partnerships that foster innovation" [14]. Europeana's vision is to provide cultural heritage for professional, educational, or leisure purposes, promoting its development on the web through the integration and enrichment of metadata for the digital content made available [15,16]. Through the hamburger menu located at the top left of the homepage screen, users can access the "collections", which are macro-categories containing individual objects in different forms.…”

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Gamifying Cultural Heritage: The Digitization Journey of Genoa University Museum System (SMA-UniGe)

La Tessa,

Schiaparelli,

Coccoli

et al. 2024

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The extensive collection of paper documents and books stored in the archives of universities worldwide is a hidden cultural heritage that is frequently inaccessible. To overcome this problem, the University of Genoa, Italy, seeks to collect, store, and digitize a wide variety of items, encompassing books, manuscripts, archival materials, and documents related to museum artifacts, which together form a cultural heritage of great importance and historical significance. To make such a cultural heritage accessible to both humans and machines, images and videos must be provided with alternate descriptions, metadata, and speech-to-text transcriptions while ancient texts, for which OCR techniques are often not effective, must be accompanied by word-for-word transcripts. This work presents the design of a transcription system for the “University Museum System” at the University of Genoa, Italy (SMA-UniGe), including user interface elements and users’ engagement techniques. The goal is to create an accessible digital heritage that can be enjoyed by all, facilitated by a community of digital volunteers who are eager to dedicate their time, have a great experience, socialize, and interact on the proposed transcription system. The system exploits gamification theory to transform the typically monotonous task of transcription into a captivating experience. This activity is in line with the so-called University third mission, i.e., the activity of public engagement that aims at generating knowledge outside the academic environment to the benefit of the social, cultural, and economic development.

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Section: Europeana Transcribathonmentioning

confidence: 99%

Gamifying Cultural Heritage: The Digitization Journey of Genoa University Museum System (SMA-UniGe)

La Tessa,

Schiaparelli,

Coccoli

et al. 2024

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Technology and Public Access to Cultural Heritage: The Italian Experience on ICT for Public Historical Archives

Guccio

Martorana

Mazza

et al. 2016

Cultural Heritage in a Changing World

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The introduction and diffusion of digital technologies have had a tremendous impact on the production, preservation and utilisation of cultural heritage. In Italy, the Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism (MiBACT) has undertaken several programs involving the use of digital technology to promote a larger access to cultural heritage, through the collection of metadata on cultural products preserved in the country and the provision of digital cultural products. Digitisation techniques and web infrastructures affect most activities carried out by such institutions: the production of cultural goods, the use and valorisation of cultural heritage, as well as the costs of preservation. This study analyses the digital projects carried out by the MiBACT for the preservation and utilisation of cultural heritage that is managed by public historic archives so as to evaluate their impact on the access to cultural products.

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Profiling of knowledge organisation systems for the annotation of Linked Data cultural resources

Díaz-Corona

Lacasta

Latre

et al. 2019

Information Systems

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Culturaitalia, the Italian National Content Aggregator in Europeana

Cited by 4 publications

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Gamifying Cultural Heritage: The Digitization Journey of Genoa University Museum System (SMA-UniGe)

Gamifying Cultural Heritage: The Digitization Journey of Genoa University Museum System (SMA-UniGe)

Technology and Public Access to Cultural Heritage: The Italian Experience on ICT for Public Historical Archives

Profiling of knowledge organisation systems for the annotation of Linked Data cultural resources

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