NetConnect: Project Objectives
The objectives of the NETconnect consortium are as
follows:
Many visitors can not access the information available
on archaeological sites due to the lack of interoperability
or proper media. NETConnect will
work to overcome such a gap by providing:
• Internet and desktop-based virtual environments,
mobile and GIS applications representing
three archaeological sites across Europe. Harmonization
and spreading of know-how and
successful benchmarking cases on the use of
ICT in Cultural Heritage in order to address the
impelling need to control the physical impact of
mass tourism on cultural assets.
• Low-cost and wide access to cultural content
by the broad public, including young, elderly and
disabled people, aiming at mutual understanding
between cultures.
• Advertisement and promotion of tourism in the
archaeological sites and the cultural scenarios
areas.
Based on three archaeological sites and their surrounding
landscape, the project will develop a sustainable
methodology for connecting the sites as a
basis of a European network. In fact, the results of
the project will be initially applied to three major EU
archaeological sites: the Magna Graecia of Calabria,
in the south of Italy, Glauberg in Germany and Biskupin
in Poland. These three sites will thus become the
main core of a network of interconnected cultural
scenarios.