Title: On the implementation of a digital map for cultural heritage

Authors: Spiridon Mousouris; Georgios Styliaras

Addresses: Department of Cultural Heritage Management and New Technologies, University of Patras, Seferi 2, 30100, Agrinio, Greece ' Department of Cultural Heritage Management and New Technologies, University of Patras, Seferi 2, 30100, Agrinio, Greece

Abstract: Digital Cultural Heritage Map is a crowd-sourced web application that combines web-mapping, digital archives and multimedia. A back-end CMS allows manipulation of the user-generated content, making the system dynamic and easy to maintain. The goal of the application is to gather cultural data of a specific geographic area and relate them with multimedia, metadata and spatial data. This study presents the philosophy and the guidelines that influenced the interface design and the innovations of the application. We also describe the implementation strategy that can inspire the development of other applications that are device-independent and available to users on the move.

Keywords: web mapping; HTML5; cultural heritage; responsive design; user interface; digital maps; crowdsourcing; digital archives; multimedia content; metadata; spatial data; interface design; web applications; apps.

DOI: 10.1504/IJCISTUDIES.2016.075982

International Journal of Computational Intelligence Studies, 2016 Vol.5 No.1, pp.30 - 49

Received: 03 Dec 2014
Accepted: 05 Oct 2015
Published online: 20 Apr 2016 *

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