EVA Vienna 2006

August 27 - August 30, 2006

"Digital Cultural Heritage - Essential for Tourism"

Workshop on IT and Cultural Tourism

This workshop intends to explore the technical options of using advanced concepts and systems of digital imaging and video telephony (UMTS/3G) for establishing modes of cultural tele-presence. More specifically, the workshop will discuss the role of both pre-recorded and live video/multimedia information about cultural content and events in the future development of digitally accessible cultural heritage and its marketing in the tourism and leisure industry as part of a strategy to generate additional revenue helping to maintain this cultural heritage and make it “remotely” available to a world-wide community of interested users, consumers, and admirers over wireless telecommunication networks.

To provide a sound basis for workshop discussions, the event will start with a couple of introductory statements from both technology and application sides, so that an overview of the current state of development and available implementation scenarios is established first. These introductory statements about imaging, visualization, and video communication will focus on original content (cultural values to be digitised), methods of digital preservation providing the source of electronic content to be distributed, and available tools of video-telephony to actually convey content to tourists and spectators.

Goals and results of an ongoing Austrian-Slovakian innovation project concerning live video access to remote sites by video cellular phones will be presented as additional input to the development of application scenarios for effectively utilising advanced video-telephony in a cultural context.

The workshop will sketch a couple of possible application scenarios (such as the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage of the Schönbrunn Palace and – especially – Gardens), through work groups moderated by the workshop presenters, emphasising the live access to digital cultural content to be summarised in a final workshop synopsis.

The workshop will conclude with a joint excursion to the site of Schönbrunn Palace as a farewell get2gether of EVA 2006 in Vienna.

Contact information

Dr. Karl Fröschl
EC3 – E-Commerce Competence Center Donau-City-Straße 1, A-1220 Wien
karl.froeschl@ec3.at
www.ec3.at

Dr. Johann Stockinger
OCG – Austrian Computer Society
Wollzeile 1-3, A-1010 Wien
johann.stockinger@ocg.at
www.ocg.at

Preliminary Workshop Programme

Time: Wednesday, August 30, 2006
Venue: H. Zemanek-Lecture Room (OCG), Wollzeile 1-3, A-1010 Wien

09.30 Welcome & Introduction (K.A. Fröschl, EC3)
09.35 Technical Presentations I

The Role of Information and Communication Technologies for Innovation in Tourism Marketing
Dr. Markus Gratzer , Österreich Werbung

3D Surface Modelling of Cultural Heritage from Laser Scanning Data
Dr. Peter Dorninger , CD Lab for Spatial Data from Laser Scanning and Remote Sensing, TU Wien

Virtual City: 3D Reconstruction from 2D Images
Dr. Anton Fuhrmann , VRVis Competence Center for Virtual Reality and Visualisation, Wien

10.50 Coffee Break
11.10 Technical Presentations II

ParsGroup Service Platform - Flexible and Easy to Use Video- and Voice-Services
Clemens Fischer , ParsGroup GmbH, Wien

UbíqVistas – Mobile Video Content for Tourism Applications Using ICT (Project Presentation)
DI Oliver Fodor , eConsulting, Bratislava

12.00 Lunch Break

13.00 Scenario Development

Brainstorming for sketching and designing innovative application scenarios based on imaging, visualization and video telephony, organised in discussion groups

14.00 Presentation of Scenarios

14.30 Joint Excursion to Schönbrunn incl. Workshop Closing

Last modified: 19.07.2006 by EVA 2006