When will Cultural Heritage Content Creation Get to the Digital Age?

Abstract

Cultural heritage (CH) is an attractive domain for experimenting with novel technologies for various reasons. In general, the research focuses is on experimenting the potential of the novel technology, while having a high-quality content is necessary for experimentation in a realistic setting, but it is not the focus of the research. While generally ignored, it seems that automatic content creation is one of the main challenges for wide adoption of CH application in practice. Some effort was invested in automating the process without providing a real solution. It seems that recent semantic web techniques and large content digitization and standardization efforts pave the way for trying again to suggest ways for automatic creation of personalized and context aware coherent presentations from freely available content on the fly.