m-Dvara 2.0: Mobile & Web 2.0 Services Integration for Cultural Heritage

Web 2.0 marks a new philosophy where user is the main actor and content producer: users write blogs and comments, they tag, link, and upload photos, pictures, videos, and podcasts. As a step further, Mobile 2.0 adapts Web 2.0 technology to mobile users. We intend to study how Web 2.0 and Mobile 2.0 together can be applied to the cultural heritage sector. A number of cultural institutions and museums are introducing in their projects some Web 2.0 applications, but the main knowledge source remains a small group of a few experts. Our approach is different: we plan to let all the users, the crowd, to be the main contents provider. We aim to the crowdsourcing, the long tail power, as we call fuel of cultural heritage system. In this paper, we describe the m-Dvara 2.0 project, whose aim is a system that lets users to create, share, and use cultural contents including mobile context-aware features. Categories and Subject Descriptors J.4 [Computer Applications]: Social and Behavioral Science...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: WWW
• Authors: Paolo Coppola, Raffaella Lomuscio, Stefano Mizzaro, Elena Nazzi
• Keywords: Internet Technology, Mobile 2.0 Adapts, Web 2.0 Applications, Web 2.0 Marks, WWW 2008