Abstract
Staying sustainable in the world of cultural heritage is a major organizational challenge nationally and internationally. Due to the global financial crisis the funds available to sustain the operations of museums and libraries become difficult not only to obtain them but also to utilized them effectively and efficiently. The operational costs of museums increase over the time due to exhibit maintenance and acquisition costs. This cost is inversely proportional to the revenues that can be generated. Virtual reality, avatar technologies, virtual worlds, holograms, gaming and gamification can offer creative interactivity and unique experiences with low or no cost to the global visitor and introduce new revenue streams. This paper practically integrates the realization of digital cultural strategies and operations within the context of digital humanities economics that can turn museums and libraries from cost centres to profit centres for the benefit of the humanity and the society.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
References
ICOMOS: International Cultural Tourism Charter. Principles and Guidelines for Managing Tourism at Places of Cultural and Heritage Significance. ICOMOS International Cultural Tourism Committee (2002)
Kramer, S.: History Begins at Sumer, Thirty-Nine Firsts in Man’s Recorded History. The University of Pennysylvania, Philadelphia (1990)
History of the collection. https://www.britishmuseum.org/about_us/departments/ancient_egypt_and_sudan/history_of_the_collection.aspx
WhatIs.com. What is digitization? https://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/digitization
Concept of Digital Heritage | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/access-to-knowledge/preservation-of-documentary-heritage/digital-heritage/concept-of-digital-heritage/
Iraq Travel Advisory. travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/traveladvisories/iraq-travel-advisory.html
Tamim, R.M., Bernard, R.M., Borokhovski, E., Abrami, P.C., Schmid, R.F.: What forty years of research says about the impact of technology on learning. Rev. Educ. Res. 81(1), 4–28 (2011)
Egypt Digitization 2020 – A New National Digital Transformation Initiative Planned to for Egypt by Resilience. http://resilienceand.co.uk/egypt-digitization-2020-a-new-national-digital-transformation-initiative-planned-to-for-egypt-by-resilience/
Bibliotheca Alexandrina. Center for Documentation of Cultural and Natural Heritage (CultNat). https://www.bibalex.org/en/center/details/thecenterfordocumentationofculturalandnaturalheritagecultnat
Eternal Egypt. http://www.eternalegypt.org/EternalEgyptWebsiteWeb/HomeServlet?ee_website_action_key=action.display.home&language_id=1
Bibliotheca Alexandrina Cultrama. https://www.bibalex.org/en/project/details?documentid=295
Qvist, P., Bulatovic Trygg, N., Luimula, M., Peltola, A., Suominen, T., Heikkinen, V., Tuominen, P., Tuusvuori, O.: Demo: medieval gastro box – utilizing VR technologies in immersive tourism experience. In: Proceedings of the 5th IEEE Conference on Cognitive Infocommunications, pp. 77–78 (2016)
Bulatovic Trygg, N., Luimula, M.: Cultural heritage in a pocket - case study “Turku castle in your hands”. In: Proceedings of the 5th IEEE Conference on Cognitive Infocommunications, pp. 55–58 (2016)
Pyae, A., Luimula, M., Smed, J.: Investigating players’ engagement, immersion, and experiences in playing Pokemon go. In: Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Creativity and Cognition, 27–30 June 2017, pp. 247–251 (2017)
Fifteen years after looting, thousands of artefacts are still missing from Iraq’s national museum. http://theconversation.com/fifteen-years-after-looting-thousands-of-artefacts-are-still-missing-from-iraqs-national-museum-93949
Five Augmented Reality Experiences That Bring Museum Exhibits to Life. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/expanding-exhibits-augmented-reality-180963810/
Explore ancient Egypt in our Virtual Reality tour (2017). https://blog.britishmuseum.org/explore-ancient-egypt-in-our-virtual-reality-tour/
Egypt Launches the ‘World’s Biggest Digital Library’ (2016). http://cairoscene.com/ArtsAndCulture/Egypt-Launches-the-World-s-Biggest-Digital-Librar
El-Bakry, F.: Egypt, KSA, UAE to share knowledge via Arab Digital union (2018). http://www.egypttoday.com/Article/1/61565/Egypt-KSA-UAE-to-share-knowledge-via-Arab-Digital-union
Digital Transformation in the Museum Industry. Axiell ALM (2016). alm.axiell.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Axiell-ALM-Digitise-Museums-Report.pdf
Leorke, D., Wyatt, D., McQuire, S.: More than just a library: public libraries in the ‘smart city’. City Cult. Soc. 15, 37–44 (2018)
Han, D.I., Jung, T., Gibson, A.: Dublin AR: implementing augmented reality (AR) in tourism. In: Xiang, Z., Tussyadiah, I. (eds.) Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism, pp. 511–523 (2013)
The ViMM Manifesto for Digital Cultural Heritage. https://www.vi-mm.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/ViMM-Manifesto-Revised-Final-4-Sept.pdf
Artstor Digital Library. Collections from the World’s Leading Museums and Archives. www.biblioteche.unical.it/banchedati/artstor_r_intro_1604.pdf
The Guardian, Guardian News and Media. British Museum Uses Virtual Reality to Transport Visitors to the Bronze Age. www.theguardian.com/culture/2015/aug/04/british-museum-virtual-reality-weekend-bronze-age
Museums Heritage Advisor. Technology in Museums – Introducing New Ways to See the Cultural World. https://advisor.museumsandheritage.com/features/technology-museums-introducing-new-ways-see-cultural-world/
The New York Times. Artificial Intelligence, Like a Robot, Enhances Museum Experience. www.nytimes.com/2018/10/25/arts/artificial-intelligence-museums.html
European Commission. Digital Cultural Heritage. https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/digital-cultural-heritage
Towns Web Archiving. Guide: Sources of Funding for heritage digitisation projects. https://www.townswebarchiving.com/2018/02/sources-funding-for-heritage-digitisation-projects/
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2020 Springer Nature Switzerland AG
About this paper
Cite this paper
Markopoulos, E., Markopoulos, P., Liumila, M., Almufti, Y., Romano, C. (2020). Digital Cultural Strategies Within the Context of Digital Humanities Economics. In: Ahram, T. (eds) Advances in Human Factors in Wearable Technologies and Game Design. AHFE 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 973. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20476-1_29
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20476-1_29
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Cham
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-20475-4
Online ISBN: 978-3-030-20476-1
eBook Packages: EngineeringEngineering (R0)