Culturama
European Cultural Heritage Digital Toolkit
"Minimise the risk of inappropriate digitisation practices when cultural institutions digitise and preserve heritage collections without specialised in-house expertise"
Culturama is a shared repository of validated methods, tools, and practices for cultural heritage digitalisation. It provides European cultural institutions with curated XR workflows, technical standards, and responsible digitisation frameworks, enabling professional-grade digital heritage without requiring in-house deep-tech expertise.
Institutional digitisation pathways
Museum collection digitisation
Workflows, technical specifications, and quality standards for 3D scanning, photogrammetry, and metadata creation for permanent and temporary collections.
Cultural Heritage
Heritage site documentation
Standards-based documentation of archaeological sites, monuments, and built heritage using XR capture methods with long-term preservation guarantees.
Cultural Heritage
Accessible digital experiences
Curated methods for creating inclusive XR cultural experiences meeting accessibility standards and neurodiversity-first design principles.
Cultural Heritage
Toolkit components
Validated digitisation workflows
Step-by-step procedures for common digitisation scenarios with quality control checkpoints and technical specifications.
Interoperability standards
Semantic metadata schemas, linked data ontologies, and API specifications enabling cross-institutional data sharing.
Technology selection guidance
Decision frameworks for choosing appropriate capture methods, storage systems, and presentation technologies based on institutional context.
Ethical and legal frameworks
Guidance on intellectual property, cultural sensitivity, repatriation considerations, and community consent for digitisation projects.
Institutional impact
Institutions using Culturama frameworks experience fewer technical failures and compliance issues
Compared to institutions building digitisation expertise from scratch
Metadata schemas and data models designed for European cultural data infrastructure
Cultural heritage standards
Europeana Data Model (EDM)
Metadata interoperability with European cultural heritage aggregators
CIDOC-CRM ontology
Conceptual reference model for cultural heritage information
IIIF (International Image Interoperability Framework)
Standardised API for delivering high-resolution cultural heritage imagery
UNESCO cultural heritage conventions
Alignment with international heritage preservation and protection frameworks
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Validation Evidence
Research pilots and validation programmes that informed Culturama development through evidence-based assessment of technology value propositions, user requirements, and commercial viability.
Direct Platform Evolution
These validation pilots directly informed Culturama commercial development decisions, feature prioritisation, and market positioning strategy.
VAARHeT Pilot 1: AR Welcome Avatar for Mobile Museum Information Delivery
Validating voice-activated mobile AR welcome avatars for routine visitor information queries at archaeological museums, achieving NPS 16 whilst demonstrating limited value versus conventional digital alternatives and revealing critical AI accuracy requirements for cultural heritage contexts.
VAARHeT Pilot 2: VR Archaeological Site Augmentation for Educational Exploration
Validating voice-triggered VR building construction visualisation for archaeological education at reconstructed Latgalian settlements, achieving NPS 61 and 4.0+ educational value ratings whilst demonstrating strongest validation evidence for experiential spatial heritage learning applications.
VAARHeT Pilot 3: AR Translation Agent for Multilingual Heritage Tours
Validating real-time translation for live museum tours using mobile AR and smart glasses, achieving NPS -14 whilst revealing critical minority language support requirements and AR glasses hardware limitations for cultural heritage applications.
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