Cultural Heritage and ICT: State of the Art and Perspectives

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This paper tries to outline the evolution of the role of ICT with respect to Cultural Heritage showing how, starting from the first digitization projects, ICT has gradually become the major driving force for both preserving and exploiting Cultural Heritage. Specifically, the key role of advances in automatic recognition within texts and multimedia information are considered. Essential Website References Cultural Heritage Search Engine Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative (FADGI) IEEE1599 International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage (JOCCH), ACM, New York Journal of Cultural Heritage, Elsevier, Amsterdam, NL Library of Congress, Washington, USA MPEG official site UNESCO - Intangible Cultural Heritage UNIMARC World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) - Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Videos Click on the thumbnails below to open videos on YouTube. An Advanced Technology for Music Contents Digital Archives for Music Cultural Heritage Digitizing Audio, Scores, and Iconographic Materials

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