Digital Culture Sustainability

Dear Colleagues,

In recent years, the research community has demonstrated considerable interest in digital culture (DC) and its online presentation, accessibility, exploitation, preservation, and reuse through new tools and services to model, analyse, and visualize vast amounts of DC data. The focus is on the search for innovations, especially in areas/subareas relevant to data management and processing—innovative and creative tools for approaching cultural assets, applications, and services for better access and exploiting of the rich and diverse digital cultural heritage in a sustainable way, intelligent curation, creative use/re-use and remix, reinterpretation, study, understanding, analysis, personalization, adaptation, semantics, protection, restoration, preservation, etc. The research community deals with important issues of handling data directly, affecting the economy (as presented by creative and re-creative industry), the public sector (cultural institutions—museums, libraries, galleries, etc.), education, and society as a whole.

This Special Issue aims to contribute to a deeper understanding of digital culture. It highlights case studies, practices, innovative results, research projects, and applications in the field of digitization, documentation, archiving, representation, and preventive conservation of global and national tangible and intangible cultural heritage. In particular, the main goal of this Issue is to gather interdisciplinary and inter-professional research on digital culture in order to make DC content accessible.

Topics of interests include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Leading-edge digital applications: galleries, libraries, culture sites, museums and historical tours, exhibitions, and encyclopaedias, as well as interactive systems in cultural and creative industries.
• Usability, effectiveness, increased and generalized visitor experience in digital culture platforms.
• Multimedia, multilingual, data management, and archiving.
• Visualization techniques (desktop, virtual and augmented reality, 2D/3D, etc.).
• Protection, restoration, and preservation of tangible and intangible cultural objects.
• Virtual reconstructions and interactive multimedia solutions for museums, culture monuments and objects, theatres, etc.
• Acceleration and facilitation of the sharing and exchange of digital culture data, e-Infrastructure networks and applications in the field of digital culture, and open access to digitized cultural heritage.
• Semantic processing of digital cultural knowledge, and techniques for extracting digital data and knowledge.
• Educational DC applications—e-learning/e-training in DC, applied games/gamification, computer animation/simulations for DC, and virtual heritage.
• Innovative solutions for cultural landscapes, considering the promotion of (and protection from) cultural tourism and quality of life.

Research papers submitted to the Special Issue must not have been published previously or be under consideration for publication, though they may represent significant extensions of prior work. All submissions will undergo a peer-review process (with at least two reviewers).

Dr. Peter Stanchev
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

• digital culture
• multimedia systems
• database systems
• information retrieval and data mining
• game design
• web technology
• image and video processing