A multimedia personalized fruition of figurative artistic heritage by a GIS-based methodology

The creation of a personalized classification of figurative heritage is examined. The subjectivity and the variability in time are the essential elements for a personalized classification of works of art. The aim is thus to make the application available to as many users as possible by creating a low-cost, PC application for managing a personal archive of works of art. We propose a methodology to construct a multimedia system that allows users to classify an image according to personal criteria. The methodology we propose makes it possible to build a multimedia GIS-based tool that allows users to create a personalized application. Suggestions about potential applications of the proposed methodology, in particular for teachers and art-lovers, are discussed and some examples are also presented