Salzburg Research's eCulture Group conducts in-depth studies on
cultural domains and themes, develops innovative concepts based on
market and user studies, and informs the development of advanced
technological systems and tools.
The Group builds on expertise and know-how developed in studies and
technological research projects with European and national research
centres, companies and large and small institutions form the cultural
and creative industries sectors. The Current focus of our work are:
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Cultural Discourse |
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The future digital cultural (heritage) space will also provide the means and mechanisms to stimulate and support social discourse around cultural content. In technological terms this goes much beyond approaches such as automatic extractions and summarisations of information where over recent years much progress has been achieved.
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Developing new concepts and co-operations |
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Realising the vision of eCulture knowledge spaces
is an endeavour which calls for an intensive co-operation in cultural,
organisational, technical, financial as well as political terms. For example,
as crucial technological developments and breakthroughs mostly happen outside
the cultural (heritage) sector, it is ever more important to identify and point
out existing and newly emerging technological systems and applications that
promise high potential or most likely will have a considerable impact on the
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Intelligent Heritage |
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“Intelligent” heritage we associate with
the technological and semantic interoperability of heritage resources,
particularly in relation to the vision of a Semantic Web. We believe the RTD
agenda should concentrate on smart applications for infrastructures able to
handle increasingly complex digital environments, objects and information
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Contextual Cultural Information |
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Based on the Ambient Intelligence concept
we understand “contextual” as anywhere, anytime seamless access to, and support
in the use of, cultural information in dynamic contexts. Applications should allow for meaningful,
context-aware interaction with information resources, involving context
management in terms of location as well as tasks and social and physical
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Natural & Enjoyable Interaction |
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Users should be able to interact with virtual
and hybrid cultural environments in natural way and enjoyable ways, according
to their preferences and the uses they want to make of rich cultural
information. A pre-condition for this is to embed intelligence into a broad
range of software devices and environments enabling new kinds of intelligent
interfaces and user-centric applications and services |
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