the areas that are the centre of an economic exploitation. In fact, they refers to a model of economical development especially at a local level, centered not only on the exploitation of cultural goods, but on a complete productive process of a specific territory.
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Educational Personalized Contents in a Web Environment: The Virtual Museum Net of Magna Graecia
Giuseppe Naccarato (Università della Calabria, Italy), Eleonora Pantano (Università della Calabria, Italy), and Assunta Tavernise (Università della Calabria, Italy)
Copyright: © 2011
|Pages: 15
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60960-044-0.ch022
Abstract
This chapter presents a system called Virtual Museum Net of Magna Graecia, part of a Cultural Heritage project supported by the Regional Operational Programme 2000-2006 to promote archaeological patrimony of Calabria, a region of southern Italy. In particular, the Virtual Museum Net offers personalized learning paths though an intelligent match between a user’s preferences, needs, and requests and Calabrian Cultural Heritage data from museums, archaeological sites and libraries, including maps, images, movies, historical writings, and architectural reconstructions.The system provides educational contents and recommendations on the basis of a thematic search or a map, and the user can select both the contents to visualize and the level of detail. In this way, the educational quality, the users’ entertainment, and the learning process are improved by the virtual experience.