Smart Cities and Cultural Heritage – A Review of Developments and Future Opportunities

This paper reviews a cross-section of international developments in smart cities and their implications for the cultural heritage sector. A main focus of the paper is an assessment of selected case studies in the cultural heritage sector exploring the use of smart platforms and visualisation technologies. The results highlight a particular set of current challenges, as well as providing scope for identifying future opportunities in developing smart cultural heritage services.

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Ann Borda

Jonathan P. Bowen

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Publication date: July 2017

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Conference date: 11 – 13 July 2017

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[1] J. Alexander 2014 Gallery One, the first year: sustainability, evaluation process, and a new smart phone app MW2014: Museums and the Web. URL: http://mw2014.museumsandtheweb.com/paper/aallerv-one-the-first-year-sustainability-evaluation-process-and-a-new-smart-phone-app/ 30 March 2017

[2] F. Amato et al 2013 The talking museum project Procedía Computer Science, 4th International Conference on Emerging Ubiquitous Systems and Pervasive Networks (EUSPN-2013) 21 0 114 121

[3] M. Angelaccio et al 2012 Smart and mobile access to cultural heritage resources: a case study on ancient Italian Renaissance villas IEEE 21st International WETICE 310 314

[4] M. Angelidou 2015 Smart cities: A conjuncture of four forces Cities 47 95 106

[5] Australian Government 2016 Smart Cities Plan. Commonwealth of Australia. Canberra: Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. URL: https://cities.dpmc.gov.au/smart-cities-plan 5 April 2017

[6] S. BautistaA. Balsamo 2011 Understanding the distributed museum: mapping the spaces of museology in contemporary culture J. TrantD. Bearman Museums and the Web 2011: Proceedings. Toronto Archives & Museum Informatics

[7] K. Bego 2016 Pokémon Go and the marketing agencies of the augmented world Nesta blog 12 July URL: http://www.nesta.org.uk/blog/pokemon-go-and-marketing-agencies-augmented-world 30 March 2017

[8] A. BordaJ. P. Bowen 2011 Virtual collaboration and community. In Information Resources Management Association Virtual Communities: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools and Applications. IGI Global chapter 8.9 2600 2611

[9] G. CasellaM. Coelho 2013 Augmented heritage: situating augmented reality mobile apps in cultural heritage communication Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Information Systems and Design of Communication (ISDOC ‘13) ACM New York, NY, USA 138 140 ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="DOI:10.1145/2503859.2503883">DOI:10.1145/2503859.2503883

[10] A. ChianeseF. PiccialliI. Valente 2015 Smart environments and cultural heritage: a novel approach to create intelligent cultural spaces Journal of Location Based Services 9 3 209 234 ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="DOI:10.1080/17489725.2015.1099752">DOI:10.1080/17489725.2015.1099752

[11] A. ChianeseF. Piccialli 2014 SmaCH: A framework for smart cultural heritage spaces Tenth International Conference on Signal-Image Technology & Internet-Based Systems 477 484

[12] Cisco 2014 Smart City Readiness: Understand the Issues to Accelerate the Journey. White Paper. Smart Cities Council. URL: http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/m/enin/innovation/smartcities/assets/white-paper-c11-732985.pdf 5 April 2017

[13] DATABENC 2014 Distretto ad Alta Tecnología per i Beni Culturali. Italy URL: http://www.databenc.it/en/ 30 March 2017

[14] EC 2015 Smart Cities and Communities: The European Innovation Partnership on Smart Cities and Communities European Community 4 June http://ec.europa.eu/eip/smartcities/indexen.htm 24 April 2017

[15] Europeana 2015 Transforming the world with culture. White Paper, Europeana Foundation September URL: http://pro.europeana.eu/files/EuropeanaProfessional/Publications/Europeana%20Presidencies%20White%20Paper.pdf 30 March 2017

[16] S. Filippini-FantoniJ. P. Bowen 2007 Bookmarking in museums: Extending the museum experience beyond the visit? D. BearmanJ. Trant Museums and the Web 2007: Proceedings. Toronto Archives & Museum Informatics

[17] A. García-Crespo et al 2016 CESARSC: Framework for creating cultural entertainment systems with augmented reality in smart cities Computer Science and Information Systems 13 2 395 425 ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="DOI:10.2298/CSIS150620006G">DOI:10.2298/CSIS150620006G

[18] Gartner 2017 Gartner says 8.4 Billion Connected "Things" will be in Use in 2017, up 31 percent from 2016. Newsroom, Press Release. Gartner Inc. 7 February URL: http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/3598917 5 April 2017

[19] GrowSmarter 2015 GrowSmarter: transforming cities for a smart, sustainable Europe. GrowSmarter URL: http://www.grow-smarter.eu 30 March 2017

[20] IEEE 2017 IEEE Smart Cities. IEEE URL: http://smartcities.ieee.org 30 March 2017

[21] ISO/IEC 2014 Information technology: Smart Cities Preliminary Report. ISO/IEC JTC 1. URL: https://www.iso.org/iso/smartcitiesreport-jtc1.pdf 30 March 2017

[22] A. J. Jara et al 2015 Internet of Things for cultural heritage of smart cities and smart regions 29th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications Workshops 668 675 ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="DOI:10.1109/WAINA.2015.169">DOI:10.1109/WAINA.2015.169

[23] T. Kondo et al 2007 Mixed reality technology at a Natural History Museum J. TrantD. Bearman Museums and the Web 2007: Proceedings. Toronto Archives & Museum Informatics

[24] E. LagoudiC. Sexton 2010 Old Masters at your fingertips: the journey of creating a museum app for the iPhone and iTouch J. TrantD. Bearman Museums and the Web 2010: Proceedings. Archives & Museum Informatics

[25] K. Li et al 2016 Categorisation of visualisation methods to support the design of Human-Computer Interaction Systems Applied Ergonomics 55 85 107 ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="DOI:10.1016/i.apergo.2016.01.009">DOI:10.1016/i.apergo.2016.01.009

[26] Nokia 2017 Enabling smart, safe and sustainable cities: Strategic white paper. Nokia Corporation. URL: http://resources.alcatel-lucent.com/asset/191721 30 March 2017

[27] E. PalomarX. ChenZ. LiuS. MaharjanJ. P. Bowen 2016 Component-based modelling for scalable smart city systems interoperability: A case study on integrating energy demand response systems Sensors 16 11 1810 2016 ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="DOI:10.3390/s16111810">DOI:10.3390/s16111810

[28] M. Risseeuw et al 2016 Authoring augmented digital experiences in museums P. Buono et al AVI ‘16: Proceedings of the International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces. New York ACM 340 341

[29] L. Roffia et al 2005 Context awareness in mobile cultural heritage applications Smart Environments and their Applications to Cultural Heritage Workshop. 7th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UBICOMP05) Tokyo, Japan 33 36

[30] T. SaundersP. Baeck 2015 Rethinking the Smart Cities from the Ground Up. June 2015 London Nesta

[31] E. SojaE. Kanai 2006 The Urbanization of the World R. BurdettD. Sudjic The Endless City. London Phaidon Books

[32] S. Styliani et al 2009 Virtual museums, a survey and some issues for consideration Journal of Cultural Heritage 10 520 528

[33] V. Vlahakis et al 2001 ARCHEOGUIDE: First results of an Augmented Reality, Mobile Computing System in Cultural Heritage Sites Proceedings of the Conference on Virtual Reality, Archaeology, and Cultural Heritage (VAST‘01) Glyfada, Greece 28-30 November 131 140

[34] Z. YovchevaD. BuhalisC. Gatzidis 2012 Overview of smartphone augmented reality applications for tourism e-Review of Tourism Research (eRTR) 10 2 63 66

[35] Z. Yovcheva et al 2014 Empirical evaluation of smartphone augmented reality browsers in an urban tourism destination context International Journal of Mobile Human Computer Interaction 6 2 April-June 10 31

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