Creating Cultural Environment for Europe in a Historical Framework

Nedim Sarıguzel1 nsariguzel [at] selcuk.edu.tr
  1. History Department, Selcuk University, Turkey, Konya, Faculty Of Letters
Abstract 

In modern world with the accessing knowledge so easily and faster in globalization process museums and cultural heritage sites contain a bunch of digital texts, images, audio-visual content etc. which are not accessible to computers and humans. Besides, individuals as members of their communities might be counted as natural knowledge holders for their societies and discourse constructing a society in its cultural settings. With this context individuals are the storage their own historical heritage. New technologies might overwhelmingly extracted by wisdom of individuals for forming the sheer number of items which are usually spatially and/or temporally disconnected and of different digital quality.
This study will give opportunity to study and preserve European heritage by addressing the issue of data quality and interoperability. This will cause an access to bunch of data which are not tagged with adequate metadata. Another impact of this study will be improvement of perception of the rich diversity of European cultural heritage. As a result this will challenge for creating surplus value of European the society by providing humanities researchers and beneficiaries by giving answers to their questions about European cultural heritage and history.

References 

[1] M. Vecco, “A Definition of Cultural Heritage:From tangible to the intangible” Journal of Cultural Heritage 11, 2010.