Title :
On the creation of a Digital Cultural Heritage Map
Author :
Mousouris, Spiridon ; Styliaras, Georgios
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Cultural Heritage Manage. & New Technol., Univ. of Western Greece, Agrinio, Greece
Abstract :
This paper presents the development of Digital Cultural Heritage Map (DCHM) application that is based on open source technologies and combines the power of web-mapping and multimedia. The project aspires to collect all the spatial cultural information about an area in one and only dynamic and easy to maintain and modify, website. The basic component of the website is the web-map. The user can perform textual or spatial queries, or a combination of those two and subsequently access spatial data that render on the map or relevant multimedia that render on the webpage. The application is being implemented for the Aitoloakarnania Greek county and will be also deployed for mobile devices.
Keywords :
Web sites; geographic information systems; history; mobile computing; multimedia computing; public domain software; query processing; Web map; Web mapping; Website; digital cultural heritage map; mobile device; multimedia; open source technology; spatial cultural information; spatial data access; spatial query; textual query; Cultural differences; Databases; Global communication; Multimedia communication; Presses; Security; Usability; Web-mapping; culture heritage; digital archive; html 5;
Conference_Titel :
Information, Intelligence, Systems and Applications (IISA), 2013 Fourth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Piraeus
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-0770-0
DOI :
10.1109/IISA.2013.6623717
