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MAIN TRACK 5: Culture and Tourism in the Knowledge Society

Digital Culture and Cultural Heritage: Archives, Museums and Art – New Technologies, New Channels, New Culture

• Culture portals
• Advanced systems for digital culture in museums, archives and art institutions
• Digitalisation of cultural property
• Worldwide initiatives for the protection of cultural heritage
• Linking digital culture and learning
• Annotation of cultural content
• Web 2.0 and development of social networks on the top of cultural heritage portals
• Applications of mobile technologies for digital culture and cultural heritage
• Ubiquitous and pervasive computing for digital culture and cultural heritage
• Integration of digital culture and education
• A diverse and multilingual cultural heritage
• Changing meanings of culture:
• Cultural diversity and multilingualism
• Methodologies and approaches to digitisation
• Cost and access to digital culture heritage resources
• Science portals
• Schools portals
• Virtual reality and digital culture
• Emerging forms of digitisation
• Sustainable cultural heritage
• Long term planning for protecting digital resources
• Access to archives in Europe
• Books and electronic publishing
• Cultural policy and cultural diversity
• Culture and neighbourhoods
• Culture, creativity and the young
• Case studies: cinema, dance, arts, tales and legends, tourism
• New information technologies
• Training of cultural administrators

Digital Libraries: From Alexandria to YouTube and Wikipedia –
Embedding Social Dynamics

• Semantic Web approaches to digital libraries
• Web 2.0 and social web approaches to digital libraries
• Collaborative/community annotations of content in digital libraries
• Collaborative filtering
• Integration of digital libraries with knowledge management and technology enhanced learning systems
• Ontologies for cataloguing and retrieving digital resources
• Semantic Web-enabled resource retrieval in electronic libraries
• Managing catalogues through ontologies
• Approaches to annotation of resources and its cost
• Regulatory ontologies: implications for library management
• Scientific knowledge organisation and ontologies
• New roles and competencies of librarians in semantic, metadata-intensive institutions
• Concepts of digital libraries and digital documents
• System architectures, integration and interoperability
• Information organisation, search and usage
• Digital preservation
• Frameworks, technical architectures and reference models
• Evaluation of repository models
• Digital repositories and open access
• Workflows and dataflows
• Common and shared repository services
• Ingest and metadata capture
• Automated metadata creation
• Policy and organisational issues
• Trust, audit and certification, authenticity, validation
• Rights management

National Tourism Organisations and Exploitation of Information
Technologies - Tourism Portals in the Web 2.0 and Semantic Web Era

Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Tourism portals
• Push/pull technologies for tourism portals
• Web 2.0 and tourism portals
• Semantic web and tourism portals
• Adaptive and personalised technologies
• Metadata and content standards
• Free and open source software
• Ubiquitous and pervasive technologies
• Intelligent agents
• Content/knowledge management systems
• Emerging technologies
• Grid technologies
• Domain applications: tourism portals for national government tourism organisations, hotels, marketplaces, etc
• Tools/emerging technologies and new generation applications
• Challenges for the future; specification of government policies for the promotion of tourism portals
• Roadmaps for the future
• Collaborative tools for tourism
• Design variables and conditions for knowledge sharing and creation systems in tourism
• Blogging for tourism
• Collaborative filtering of tourism content
• Analysing social interaction for finding knowledge among web users
• Semantic desktops
• Social network analysis to support implicit learning and sharing within tourism environments
• Analysis of large online tourism communities
• Folksonomies, tagging and other collaboration-based categorisation systems in tourism portals
• Wikis, semantic wikis and other collaborative knowledge creation systems
• Online social networking at all levels of tourism
• Applications of online semantic networks to tourism