This paper describes on-going research investigating movement and behaviour patterns of visitors in archaeological sites as a way of informing interpretive planning. A critical point of this study was the development of a hybrid methodology for collecting and assessing ...

Περιέχει το πλήρες κείμενο. The circulation of books was the motor of classical civilization. However, books were both expensive and rare, and so libraries - private and public, royal and civic - played key roles in articulating intellectual life. This collection, writt...

A large data set of input RAW photos for 3D reconstruction of historical paper model of Prague is presented in this paper. The data acquisition process and its organisation are described in detail together with color and camera calibration algorithms used. Moreover, a ...

This paper investigates the potential use of the high resolution FormoSAT-2 sensor for supporting archaeological research. Although satellite remote sensing data have been widely used in the context of archaeological research, the high-resolution FormoSAT-2 dataset has...

World Monuments Fund and UNESCO are collaborating in a project for the conservation and management of the living heritage site of Lalibela, in the Lasta mountains in Ethiopia. The site is still in use today and it is characterized by a series of deep trenches where ch...

Περιέχει το πλήρες κείμενο This paper discusses the foundation of the Library of Alexandria, probably to be dated under Ptolemy I, and argues for its location within the temple complex of the Mouseion. Modelled in part on Aristotle's library in Athens, the Library is pl...

Περιέχει το πλήρες κείμενο The quality of the metadata affects the interoperability of the collections and the quality of all search results, and is important to the success of Europeana. It is not obvious how to define quality metrics, on different kinds of metadata an...

This study considers the expressiveness (that is the expressive power or expressivity) of different types of Knowledge Organization Systems (KOS) and discusses its potential to be machine-processable in the context of the Semantic Web. For this purpose, the theoretical ...

Περιέχει τη περίληψη Presents the text of a speech delivered by G.S. Georghallides at the Second International Congress of Cypriot Studies, held in Nicosia in April 1982. Management of public records under the British colonial administration in Cyprus; Holdings of the C...

There are in the National Library of Portugal (BNP) about fifty paintings from former convents, mainly portraits executed between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries, which are hung in rooms and along corridors, far from the eyes of the public and simultaneously prot...