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Innovative Technologies for Virtual Museums: An Overview

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The Future of Heritage Science and Technologies: ICT and Digital Heritage (Florence Heri-Tech 2022)

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Abstract

The ongoing cultural heritage transition process, in which elaborate digitization plans for cultural artifacts are developed to overcome concerns about the objects’ long-term preservation and storage, is now addressing issues for improving and expanding access to digital objects. As a result, new techniques and cutting-edge tools are needed for galleries, libraries, archives, and museums players to deploy and distribute the richness of knowledge housed inside cultural property.

Accordingly, the present work provides an overview of the most significant studies addressing the use of innovative technologies for virtual museums and develops some thoughts on how the state of the art is improving as technology progresses. Following a discussion of the most current and significant research on this topic, the article drafts a number of proposals on how the state of the art might be overcome in the near future.

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    Rocco Furferi

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    Rocco Furferi

  2. University of Florence, Florence, Italy

    Lapo Governi

  3. University of Florence, Florence, Italy

    Yary Volpe

  4. Stichting Restauratie Atelier Limburg, Maastricht, The Netherlands

    Kate Seymour

  5. European Research Council (ERC), National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Rome, Italy

    Anna Pelagotti

  6. University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy

    Francesco Gherardini

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Furferi, R. (2022). Innovative Technologies for Virtual Museums: An Overview. In: Furferi, R., Governi, L., Volpe, Y., Seymour, K., Pelagotti, A., Gherardini, F. (eds) The Future of Heritage Science and Technologies: ICT and Digital Heritage. Florence Heri-Tech 2022. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1645. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20302-2_32

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