Cultural heritage and Virtual reality projects

Projects related to virtual reality and visualization

Career office, Internship information, innovation & entrepreneurship system

Framework:GSRT funding
Duration:2011-2015
Description:The goal of the project was to develop an information system to support the career office, the internship programme and the innovation & entrepreneurship unit of the University of the Peloponnese
Web site: Internship programme: http://praktiki.uop.gr/is
Career office: http://career.uop.gr/is
Innovation & entrepreneurship unit: http://mke.uop.gr/is
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Digitization of the Athens University Anthropology Museum

Framework: Information Society, GSRT
Duration: 2006-2008
Description: This project aimed to digitize, organize in a database and disseminate through the internet the exhibits of the Athens University Anthropology Museum
Web site: http://anthropology-museum.uoa.gr/
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Digitization of the Athens University Criminology Museum

Framework: Information Society, GSRT
Duration: 2006-2008
Description: This project aimed to digitize, organize in a database and disseminate through the internet the exhibits of the Athens University Criminology Museum
Web site: http://criminology-museum.uoa.gr/
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Digitization of the University of Athens History Museum project

Framework:Information Society
Duration:2004-2006
Description:This project aims to digitize material from the University of Athens History Museum and to create of an integrated environment for managing and presenting the digitized information
Web site:http://history-museum.uoa.gr
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E-tourism

Framework: NSRF funding
Duration: 2012-2015
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The project is mainly focused to the technology review, design and pilot implementation of innovative mobile services for the tourism sector. Research will focus in the area of Mobile and Web services for e-Tourism that combine:

  • Augmented Reality applications
  • Maps and GIS for content structuring and presentation
  • Location-Based Services with context awareness, social networking and other innovative features
Web site: http://www.e-tourism-project.uop.gr/
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Experimedia Blue

Framework: FP7
Duration: 2012-2013
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Experimedia BLUE is a part of the European project Experimedia (link is external), dedicated to the exploration of new forms of social and networked media experiences. BLUE aims at exploring means to enrich the experience of museum visitors both during their visits and in their connected life.

With a mobile application and a Facebook game, BLUE offers museum visitors automatic and personalised guidance adapted to their interests and cognitive style. Visitors gain a unique social experience as they can record and comment their visits, share them with their friends on the social network, and build their own virtual museum.

Web site: http://experimediablue.list.lu/
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Unified web site for the history of the University of Athens

Framework: Information Society, GSRT
Duration: 2008-2009
Description: This project aimed to organize exhibits from the Athens University History Museum and the Athens University Historical archive through an ontology, allowing the user to traverse semantic paths between exhibits to explore the history of the University.
Web site: http://chronologio.uoa.gr/
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Virtual museums project

Framework:General Secretariat for Research and Technology
Duration:1999-2001
Description:The purpose of the 'Virtual Museums' project was to create a virtual environment where visitors of the participating museums will be able view their exhibits either through Internet or locally. This environment will fulfill research, cultural and educational purposes. Users may therefore be researchers, as well as students or in general, people that are interested in the exhibits of each of the participating museums. All of the user categories will have easy access to the museums without the need of their being physically present. Additionally, the project aims to create the software tools necessary for the museums' supervisors to add and/or remove exhibits from the virtual environment according to their needs.
Web site:http://museum.di.uoa.gr
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