scholarly journals Reuse of Wikimedia Commons Cultural Heritage Images on the Wider Web

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 28-51
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Joan Kelly
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Digital Content ◽  
Research Needs ◽  
Weak Correlation ◽  
Creative Commons ◽  
Digital Cultural Heritage ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Specific Assessment ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Content Marketing

Abstract Objective – Cultural heritage institutions with digital images on Wikimedia Commons want to know if and how those images are being reused. This study attempts to gauge the impact of digital cultural heritage images from Wikimedia Commons by using Reverse Image Lookup (RIL) to determine the quantity and content of different types of reuse, barriers to using RIL to assess reuse, and whether reused digital cultural heritage images from Wikimedia Commons include licensing information. Methods – 171 digital cultural heritage Wikimedia Commons images from 51 cultural heritage institutions were searched using the Google images “Search by image” tool to find instances of reuse. Content analysis of the digital cultural heritage images and the context in which they were reused was conducted to apply broad content categories. Reuse within Wikimedia Foundation projects was also recorded. Results – A total of 1,533 reuse instances found via Google images and Wikimedia Commons’ file usage reports were analyzed. Over half of reuse occurred within Wikimedia projects or wiki aggregator and mirror sites. Notable People, people, historic events, and buildings and locations were the most widely reused topics of digital cultural heritage both within Wikimedia projects and beyond, while social, media gallery, news, and education websites were the most likely places to find reuse outside of wiki projects. However, the content of reused images varied slightly depending on the website type on which they were found. Very few instances of reuse included licensing information, and those that did often were incorrect. Reuse of cultural heritage images from Wikimedia Commons was either done without added context or content, as in the case of media galleries, or was done in ways that did not distort or mischaracterize the images being reused. Conclusion – Cultural heritage institutions can use this research to focus digitization and digital content marketing efforts in order to optimize reuse by the types of websites and users that best meet their institution’s mission. Institutions that fear reuse without attribution have reason for concern as the practice of reusing both Creative Commons and public domain media without rights statements is widespread. More research needs to be conducted to determine if notability of institution or collection affects likelihood of reuse, as preliminary results show a weak correlation between number of images searched and number of images reused per institution. RIL technology is a reliable method of finding image reuse but is a labour-intensive process that may best be conducted for selected images and specific assessment campaigns. Finally, the reused content and context categories developed here may contribute to a standardized set of codes for assessing digital cultural heritage reuse.

scholarly journals Improving the impact of digital cultural heritage : system, content and users’ challenges

2020 ◽  
pp. 3-16
Author(s):  
Pierluigi Feliciati
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Digital Cultural Heritage ◽  
The Impact

Dans le domaine de la culture, l’impact du patrimoine numérique sur la société est stratégique et constitue la qualité intrinsèque des ressources elles-mêmes. La tendance actuelle incite les institutions GLAM (acronyme anglais pour « Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums », en français « Galeries, Bibliothèques, Archives et Musées ») à dépasser la conception du patrimoine comme « Beau » valable en soi, accessible seulement à quelques spécialistes, et au contraire à favoriser des collisions proactives avec les besoins des communautés, leurs perceptions, leurs choix. Ainsi, étant donné que les éléments cruciaux pour un projet de patrimoine digital semblent être les contenus auxquels il donne accès, les fonctionnalités disponibles, et les usagers, il devient essentiel de tenir compte des besoins et attentes de ces derniers, qu’ils soient explicites ou non, pour assurer un service convenable.Cette contribution présente brièvement les principaux problèmes et les possibilités offertes par une structuration des études d’utilisateurs de produits culturels numériques, en se concentrant sur le système, les contenus et les utilisateurs, qui constituent les trois pôles de cette structure interactive.

Museums' Strategies for Opening up to Open Access. German Museums' Utilization Logics for Digital Content

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 193-209
Author(s):  
Julia Wiedemann ◽  
Eva Patzschke ◽  
Susanne Schmitt
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Organizational Identity ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Digital Content ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Scientific Infrastructure ◽  
Opening Up

Museums are expected to safeguard society’s cultural heritage while also making it publicly available to all. Recently, the digital transformation increased political and societal claims on museums to make their digital content openly available. This paper explores museums’ reactions to this claim and looks at how museums currently utilize their digital content. By analysing qualitative interviews with German museum officials we have found museums to follow four different types of strategies which are ‘Societal engagement’, ‘Safeguarding of heritage related knowledge’, ‘Scientific infrastructure’ and ‘marketing ends’. These were embedded in museums’ organizational identity and the prioritising of some of their tasks.

scholarly journals Digital Content Marketing – A Literature Review on Concepts, International Experiences and Implications for Vietnam

2021 ◽  
Vol 124 ◽  
pp. 09005
Author(s):  
Nguyen Hong Quy ◽  
Feifei Sun
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Target Audience ◽  
Communication Process ◽  
Marketing Communications ◽  
Digital Content ◽  
Behavior Changes ◽  
Brand Building ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Content Marketing

Communication activities are increasingly more diverse, complex and play a more important role in brand building. Perceived consistency of brand messages (across campaigns), a new variable that reflects an important aspect of the integration performance of marketing communications, has been included in the investigation of the impact of marketing communications. It has been shown that perceived consistency strongly correlates with brand's perception, attitude and behavior changes of the target audience. However, the mechanism of influence of this factor in the communication process is still a question for further research.

scholarly journals The Applicability of Artificial Intelligence in Contractual Relationships

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-82
Author(s):  
Ágnes Juhász
Keyword(s):  
Short Review ◽  
Digital Content ◽  
Smart Contract ◽  
Digital Services ◽  
Contractual Relationships ◽  
Different Types ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Near Future ◽  
The Eu

The appearance and the impacts of AI and digitalisation in the different types of legal work and in different legal areas and in relation to certain legal institutions, are examined and analysed nowadays by many researches, in many ways. In this study, we examine the impact digitalisation and AI have on the law of obligations, particularly on the law of contract and which challenges shall the national legislators face in the near future. In the first part of the study, we deal with the formation of contracts by electronic means. After the short review of the related Hungarian regulation in force, recent results of the EU legislation will be introduced, which was generated by both the expansion of digital content and digital services. In the second part of the study, attention will be paid to a relatively new phenomenon, the so-called smart contract. In the course of our examination, we attempt to designate the framework of the notion of smart contract and to draft all those questions relating to smart contracts, which shall be answered over time by the legislation and by the contract law regulation.

Trends in digital cultural heritage in Japan, 1980-2012

2013 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 11-16
Author(s):  
Norio Togiya
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Web ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Great East Japan Earthquake ◽  
Digital Content ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Tablet Devices ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
Research Institutes ◽  
Digital Cultural Heritage ◽  
The World

In Japan, many different organisations have played a part in creating the digital content that we now see being shared on the internet. Starting in the 1980s, developments in digital cultural heritage took place mainly in five kinds of institution: museums, libraries, archives, university and research institutes, plus the world of business. Museums and libraries played a leading role in the 1980s, and they were joined in the 1990s by universities and commercial enterprises, which developed digital content in a variety of ways. In the 2000s archival institutions became involved, and museums, libraries and archives began to form networks to enable seamless retrieval of digital cultural heritage. In the 2010s, the focus moved to the sharing of data and specifically the need to establish a common approach for the exchange of metadata for the ‘Semantic Web’. Creating content for tablet devices also became important, as did the question of standardising technology. The Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011 brought a keen awareness of the need to create digital records to preserve and share memories of disasters.

A Data Infrastructure for Digital Cultural Heritage: Characteristics, Requirements and Priority Services

2013 ◽  
Vol 7 (supplement) ◽  
pp. 29-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonella Fresa
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Open Science ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Digital Content ◽  
Archaeological Sites ◽  
Cultural Institutions ◽  
Data Infrastructure ◽  
Digital Cultural Heritage ◽  
The Future ◽  
Coordination Action

The European amount of digitized material is growing very rapidly, as national, regional and European programmes support the digitization processes by museums, libraries, archives, archaeological sites, and audiovisual repositories. The generation of digital cultural heritage is accelerated also by the impulse of Europeana that is fostering the European cultural institutions to produce even more digital content. Moreover digital cultural heritage content are complex and interlinked through many relations. European countries are working for the future, in order to create a data infrastructure devoted to cultural heritage research. Currently, Europe have twin projects (DC-NET and INDICATE) ongoing and a new international coordination action is under preparation to design a validated roadmap for the preservation of digital cultural content. These initiatives are contributing to smooth the way to the Open Science Infrastructure for Digital Cultural Heritage, which is foreseen in 2020.

scholarly journals Accuracy assessment of modeling architectural structures and details using terrestrial laser scanning

2015 ◽  
Vol XL-5/W7 ◽  
pp. 241-243 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Kedzierski ◽  
P. Walczykowski ◽  
A. Orych ◽  
P. Czarnecka
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Point Cloud ◽  
Laser Scanning ◽  
Incidence Angle ◽  
Accuracy Assessment ◽  
Construction Materials ◽  
Point Clouds ◽  
Test Field ◽  
Different Types ◽  
The Impact

One of the most important aspects when performing architectural documentation of cultural heritage structures is the accuracy of both the data and the products which are generated from these data: documentation in the form of 3D models or vector drawings. The paper describes an assessment of the accuracy of modelling data acquired using a terrestrial phase scanner in relation to the density of a point cloud representing the surface of different types of construction materials typical for cultural heritage structures. This analysis includes the impact of the scanning geometry: the incidence angle of the laser beam and the scanning distance. For the purposes of this research, a test field consisting of samples of different types of construction materials (brick, wood, plastic, plaster, a ceramic tile, sheet metal) was built. The study involved conducting measurements at different angles and from a range of distances for chosen scanning densities. Data, acquired in the form of point clouds, were then filtered and modelled. An accuracy assessment of the 3D model was conducted by fitting it with the point cloud. The reflection intensity of each type of material was also analyzed, trying to determine which construction materials have the highest reflectance coefficients, and which have the lowest reflection coefficients, and in turn how this variable changes for different scanning parameters. Additionally measurements were taken of a fragment of a building in order to compare the results obtained in laboratory conditions, with those taken in field conditions.

Quota Women Are Threatening to Men

2017 ◽  
Vol 76 (3) ◽  
pp. 107-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Klea Faniko ◽  
Till Burckhardt ◽  
Oriane Sarrasin ◽  
Fabio Lorenzi-Cioldi ◽  
Siri Øyslebø Sørensen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Organizational Performance ◽  
Gender Stereotypes ◽  
Perceived Threat ◽  
Preferential Treatment ◽  
Public Sector Employees ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Low Levels ◽  
Women In Decision Making ◽  
The Impact

Abstract. Two studies carried out among Albanian public-sector employees examined the impact of different types of affirmative action policies (AAPs) on (counter)stereotypical perceptions of women in decision-making positions. Study 1 (N = 178) revealed that participants – especially women – perceived women in decision-making positions as more masculine (i.e., agentic) than feminine (i.e., communal). Study 2 (N = 239) showed that different types of AA had different effects on the attribution of gender stereotypes to AAP beneficiaries: Women benefiting from a quota policy were perceived as being more communal than agentic, while those benefiting from weak preferential treatment were perceived as being more agentic than communal. Furthermore, we examined how the belief that AAPs threaten men’s access to decision-making positions influenced the attribution of these traits to AAP beneficiaries. The results showed that men who reported high levels of perceived threat, as compared to men who reported low levels of perceived threat, attributed more communal than agentic traits to the beneficiaries of quotas. These findings suggest that AAPs may have created a backlash against its beneficiaries by emphasizing gender-stereotypical or counterstereotypical traits. Thus, the framing of AAPs, for instance, as a matter of enhancing organizational performance, in the process of policy making and implementation, may be a crucial tool to countering potential backlash.

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