Title: Cultural heritage open data for developing an educational platform

Authors: Vincenza Ferrara; Sonia Sapia; Andrea Macchia; Francesco Lella

Addresses: Digilab Research and Service Centre, Sapienza University of Rome, Via dei Volsci, 122, Rome, 00185, Italy ' Val Maggia Primary School, Via Val Maggia 21, Rome, 00141 Italy ' YOCOCU International Organisation, YOuth in COnservation of CUltural Heritage L.go dei Quintili, 21,Rome, 00175, Italy ' Sapienza University of Rome, Via dei Volsci, 122, Rome, 00185 Italy

Abstract: New strategy to promote and disseminate cultural heritage is ongoing. Linked Open Data technology suggests rethinking access to digital cultural heritage resources and their dissemination in different contexts. This paper presents the results of project which have developed a learning repository and an annotation tool to increase the content of cultural heritage according to teacher's needs. The educational platform was developed to disseminate multimedia cultural resources inside the classroom through open data access for sharing museum contents. The tools developed provide museum information to teachers who can reuse and re-contextualise them in their multimedia lessons and create educational environments to improve engagement and student learning. In this way the museum object will become a tool for teaching, new learning environments will be created and relationship between museum staff and education context will be improved.

Keywords: cultural heritage; learning repositories; Linked Open Data; LOD; annotation tools; content management systems; CMS; educational platforms; digital resources; resource dissemination; multimedia resources; museum contents; museum information; student engagement.

DOI: 10.1504/IJCISTUDIES.2016.075979

International Journal of Computational Intelligence Studies, 2016 Vol.5 No.1, pp.19 - 29

Received: 11 Dec 2014
Accepted: 16 Oct 2015

Published online: 20 Apr 2016 *

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