Heritage 4- a four dimensional cultural heritage management system

Organization/company: KÖNIG/SNIZEK, Denmark

Presenter: Bernhard Snizek and Thorbjørn König

Type of project: On-line webservice / software

Website: http://heritage4.koenigsnizek.org

Heritage 4, an extension to Plone, a state of the art content management system was developed, combining well proven technologies to a novel way of experiencing and participating in development of historical content. Four types of search interfaces, the so called navigators are currently implemented into the system: mind navigation, a graphical, interactive and dynamic node-edge interface, a map-based navigator utilising the Google API, a timeline and a text search. These navigators present single content as well as collections or search results geographically, temporally and relationally. Seamless switching between navigators provides maximum flexibility during the data mining process. In addition, end users can tag and discuss objects and present and exchange their experiences with place and history.