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The OASIS project (2012-2015) will facilitate this search by grouping online services
in a unified portal, using cloud architecture and following a user-centric approach. It
will also help public administrations to make better use of customer and businesses
information and better adapt public e-services to the needs of people and businesses.
The project is thus seeking to make services more accessible, user-friendly, efficient
and less expensive for the taxpayer.
http://www.oasis-eu.org
European cultural heritage at hand
and preservation of digital memory
The pervasiveness of digital technologies in the everyday life is changing the way
citizens, especially young digital natives, expect to access cultural content. The
cultural institutions, such as museums and galleries are looking at more attractive
solutions to offer their visitors more interactive and engaging experiences. This could
be done, for example, by capitalising on the resources available in recently developed
digital libraries.
The CHESS project (Cultural Heritage Experiences through Socio-personal interactions
and Storytelling) is developing an innovative conceptual and technological framework
to enable cultural content providers and visitors
to build personalised and narrative experiences
linked to the cultural heritage and adapted
to the visitor’s profiles. Essentially, CHESS
proposes to create narrative-driven cultural
“adventures” through hybrid structures, which
adapt continuously to their visitors, extend over
space and time, and involve multiple users with
different interfaces.
To do so, it integrates interdisciplinary research in personalization, digital storytelling,
interaction methodologies, narrative-oriented mobile and mixed reality technologies,
with a sound theoretical basis in museology, cognitive, and learning sciences.
The CHESS system has been displayed at two world-renowned museums, the New
Acropolis Museum, and the Cité de l’Espace in France.
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