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  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,466 Views
26 Pages

Digitalizing Material Knowledge: A Practical Framework for Ontology-Driven Knowledge Graphs in Process Chains

  • Elena Garcia Trelles,
  • Christoph Schweizer,
  • Akhil Thomas,
  • Philipp von Hartrott and
  • Marina Janka-Ramm

14 December 2024

This paper proposes a robust methodology for integrating process-specific data and domain expert knowledge into linked knowledge graphs. These graphs utilize an ontology that provides a standardized vocabulary for material science and facilitates the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
10,782 Views
21 Pages

Digital Twin Meets Knowledge Graph for Intelligent Manufacturing Processes

  • Georgia Stavropoulou,
  • Konstantinos Tsitseklis,
  • Lydia Mavraidi,
  • Kuo-I Chang and ,
  • Anastasios Zafeiropoulos,
  • Vasileios Karyotis and
  • Symeon Papavassiliou
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

19 April 2024

In the highly competitive field of material manufacturing, stakeholders strive for the increased quality of the end products, reduced cost of operation, and the timely completion of their business processes. Digital twin (DT) technologies are conside...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Industrial Internet of Things in the Industry 4.0: New Researches, Applications and Challenges (Volume II))
  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
6,444 Views
28 Pages

24 December 2024

This study presents a framework for integrating digital twins and knowledge graphs to enhance heritage building conservation, addressing challenges in environmental stress management, material degradation, and structural integrity while preserving hi...

(This article belongs to the Section Building Materials, and Repair & Renovation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
507 Views
39 Pages

30 June 2026

Meeting European carbon neutrality and energy performance targets requires large-scale rehabilitation of historic and traditional buildings, one of the construction sector’s key challenges by 2050. This will significantly increase demand for ne...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Application of Digital Technology in Cultural Heritage)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,790 Views
14 Pages

27 April 2019

An increasing volume of images is available online, but barriers such as digital locks, proprietary interests and narrow scope of information uploaded to image databases maintain structures that have impeded repatriation efforts in the real world. Im...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue On Provenance of Knowledge and Documentation: Select Papers from “CIDOC 2018”)
  • Article
  • Open Access
72 Citations
8,113 Views
21 Pages

4 October 2022

Architectural heritage is a lively carrier of historical development, as well as providing a valuable resource for human society. Recently, however, the longevity of architectural heritage has been influenced and even threatened by natural and human...

(This article belongs to the Section Construction Management, and Computers & Digitization)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,146 Views
22 Pages

Ontology-Based Digital Preservation Framework for Phum Riang Silk Heritage

  • A-Phorn Molee,
  • Thana Charuphanthuset,
  • Wittawat Kunnu and
  • Supaporn Chairungsee

Traditional textile crafts face significant challenges in preserving and transferring knowledge due to the aging of expert artisans and declining community engagement. The Phum Riang silk-weaving tradition in Suratthani Province is a critical example...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
18,173 Views
18 Pages

26 October 2024

Driven by several elements, including the unwillingness to pay for material, the spread of subscription services, and the profitability of illegal activity, digital piracy has grown to be a common problem in the contemporary world. Along with financi...

(This article belongs to the Section Work, Employment and the Labor Market)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,340 Views
51 Pages

A Digitally Enhanced Ethnography for Craft Action and Process Understanding

  • Xenophon Zabulis,
  • Partarakis Nikolaos,
  • Vasiliki Manikaki,
  • Ioanna Demeridou and ,
  • Arnaud Dubois,
  • Inés Moreno,
  • Valentina Bartalesi,
  • Nicolò Pratelli,
  • Carlo Meghini and
  • Gavriela Senteri
  • + 6 authors+ 1 author

12 May 2025

Traditional ethnographic methods have long been employed to study craft practices, yet they often fall short of capturing the full depth of embodied knowledge, material interactions, and procedural workflows inherent in craftsmanship. This paper intr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Challenges and Current Applications of 3D Information Technologies for Cultural Heritage)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,834 Views
11 Pages

Digital Unfading of Chromogenic Film Informed by Its Spectral Densities

  • Sreya Chatterjee,
  • Giorgio Trumpy and
  • Ulrich Ruedel

28 March 2023

A material-based approach for the digital restoration of chromogenic photographic and film materials affected by dye fading is proposed. Through a digital reconstruction of the original optical properties, the proposed restoration methodology approxi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Colour Photography and Film: Analysis, Preservation, and Conservation of Analogue and Digital Materials)
  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
542 Views
53 Pages

11 October 2026

Architectural heritage restoration has expanded rapidly, yet its knowledge base remains fragmented across materials, structural assessment, digital technologies, and conservation management. This study maps the field’s historical evolution and...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Techniques and Data Analysis in Cultural Heritage, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
6,023 Views
15 Pages

18 February 2022

The mesoscopic structure significantly affects the properties of polycrystalline materials. Current artificial-based microstructure-performance analyses are expensive and require rich expert knowledge. Recently, some machine learning models have been...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Machine Learning to the Study of Crystalline Materials)
  • Article
  • Open Access
744 Views
26 Pages

30 April 2026

This study reexamines the concept of techne within computer-aided architectural practices and proposes a Lakatosian research program framework to understand its historical continuity and contemporary transformation. Since its ancient origins, techne...

(This article belongs to the Section Construction Management, and Computers & Digitization)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
9,579 Views
22 Pages

15 September 2025

This study explores the digital organization of cultural heritage knowledge across national GLAM institutions (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums) in the ten ASEAN countries. By employing a qualitative content analysis approach, this researc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
11,736 Views
21 Pages

Effectiveness of Digital Health Tools to Prevent Bullying among Middle School Students

  • Christopher Williams,
  • Kenneth W. Griffin,
  • Caroline M. Botvin,
  • Sandra Sousa and
  • Gilbert J. Botvin

26 January 2023

Bullying is a widespread public health problem with significant behavioral and mental health consequences. The current study tested the effectiveness of combining interactive digital material for students, educators, and parents with class sessions t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
7,170 Views
32 Pages

3 January 2025

Integrating cultural heritage education into digital platforms is crucial for advancing the knowledge-based economy, as it introduces innovative methods for information dissemination and economic growth stimulation. This study investigates the synerg...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Engineering Education and Sustainable Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,706 Views
15 Pages

27 March 2022

Providing ready-for-practice materials in an easily accessible and user-friendly way is one of the challenges of Horizon 2020 Thematic Networks (TNs) to promote agriculture and forestry innovation. Those materials are the result of the co-creation an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
442 Views
14 Pages

Pharmacy-Led Digital Education for Rational Antibiotic Use in Companion Animals: A Randomized Controlled Trial

  • Chanuttha Ploylearmsang,
  • Chayanan Panmawong,
  • Thanwarat Chinnachak and
  • Jaroon Wandee

Background: Inappropriate antibiotic use in companion animals contributes to antimicrobial resistance within the One Health context. Educational interventions targeting non-health companion animal owners, particularly undergraduate students who frequ...

(This article belongs to the Section Antibiotics Use and Antimicrobial Stewardship)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,234 Views
20 Pages

6 July 2021

Due to the rapid changes caused by globalization and internationalization, this study focused on achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 4 and 15 via specific digital learning materials—animal conservation apps—particularly designed for enlarg...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Design Education for Sustainability)
  • Review
  • Open Access
669 Views
25 Pages

Towards Digital Twins for Cultural Heritage Musical Instruments: Geometric Documentation and Materials Analysis

  • Savvas Koltsakidis,
  • Eleftherios Anastasovitis,
  • Georgia Georgiou,
  • Spiros Nikolopoulos and
  • Dimitrios Tzetzis

28 July 2026

Digital twins are emerging as a promising framework for the documentation, analysis, conservation, and interpretation of cultural heritage musical instruments. Their development depends on the integration of accurate geometric information with detail...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
132 Views
28 Pages

29 October 2026

The socio-ecological costs of digital media technologies—resource extraction, energy-intensive infrastructures, and electronic waste—remain largely invisible in everyday life and in education. Drawing on practice theory and science and te...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Technology-Enhanced Education for Sustainable Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,748 Views
15 Pages

12 January 2026

This article presences the material entanglements of analog and digital archives through a workshop-based inquiry titled “Collaging Echoes and Resonances Across Space/Time”, which applied Annie Goh’s question of whether echoes can c...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue From Craft to Code and Back Again: Rethinking Art, Materiality and Exhibition Practices in the 21st Century)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,389 Views
14 Pages

7 February 2024

Existing research has illuminated the multidimensional nature of knowledge creation in school makerspaces. Yet, limited research exists on the boundary crossing of knowledge in makerspaces and how it can lead to the emergence of relational expertise....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Boundary Objects and Practices in Educational Contexts)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
546 Views
14 Pages

2 June 2026

This study examines how transnational Mayan youth in rural Nebraska preserved and developed their linguistic heritage through the Kematzib’ Project while maintaining digital connections to Guatemala. Using Youth Participatory Action Research (Y...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Language, Education, and Identity Development of Transnational Youth—Learning from and Advancing Transdisciplinary Approaches)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
14,209 Views
14 Pages

Creating Honeypots to Prevent Online Child Exploitation

  • Joel Scanlan,
  • Paul A. Watters,
  • Jeremy Prichard,
  • Charlotte Hunn and ,
  • Caroline Spiranovic and
  • Richard Wortley
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

14 April 2022

Honeypots have been a key tool in controlling and understanding digital crime for several decades. The tool has traditionally been deployed against actors who are attempting to hack into systems or as a discovery mechanism for new forms of malware. T...

(This article belongs to the Section Cybersecurity)
  • Article
  • Open Access
428 Views
28 Pages

12 August 2026

Digital transformation is crucial to the sustainable development of industries in locked-in specialized peripheral regions. Taking Longyan in Fujian Province as a case study, this study draws on county-level panel data covering the period 2008–...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Digital Transformation and Economic Development: Strategies for Sustainable Industrial Competitiveness)
  • Article
  • Open Access
453 Views
18 Pages

2 June 2026

The submitted paper focuses on linking recycled material processing with digital technologies for monitoring and managing production processes in the context of Industry 4.0 principles. Despite the rapid development of additive manufacturing and Indu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced and Smart Manufacturing Processes and Machine Tool Technologies: 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
6,114 Views
26 Pages

A Virtual Reality Lab for Automotive Service Specialists: A Knowledge Transfer System in the Digital Age

  • Irina Makarova,
  • Jamila Mustafina,
  • Aleksey Boyko,
  • Larisa Fatikhova and ,
  • Gleb Parsin,
  • Polina Buyvol and
  • Vladimir Shepelev
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

3 March 2023

Under the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic, there is an accelerated transition from the traditional form of knowledge transfer to online learning. Our study of 344 automotive students showed that the success of this transition depends on the readin...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Systems Engineering and Knowledge Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,387 Views
16 Pages

2 December 2025

Background/Objectives: The accelerated digitalisation of dental practice is significantly influencing how patients perceive and accept modern treatments. This study uses a structured questionnaire to evaluate patients’ knowledge of, and attitud...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,271 Views
7 Pages

Production processes must allow high flexibility and adaptivity to ensure food supply. This includes reacting to disruptions in the supply of ingredients, as well as the varying quality of ingredients, e.g., seasonal fluctuations of raw material qual...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of The 1st International Electronic Conference on Processes: Processes System Innovation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,381 Views
25 Pages

Towards the Development of Multiscale Digital Twins for Fiber-Reinforced Composite Materials Using Machine Learning

  • Brandon L. Hearley,
  • Evan J. Pineda,
  • Brett A. Bednarcyk,
  • Joseph R. Baker and
  • Laura G. Wilson

9 April 2026

Material considerations are often neglected when developing digital twins, particularly at the relevant length scales that drive material and structural performance. For reinforced composite materials, the microscale has the largest impact on nonline...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,573 Views
24 Pages

13 December 2025

This study explores how the Digital Dunhuang project transforms the heritage experience and the meaning-making of visitors, marking a shift from material conservation to digital presence. Drawing upon Freeman Tilden’s principles of heritage int...

(This article belongs to the Section Digital Heritage)
  • Perspective
  • Open Access
221 Views
18 Pages

Generative AI Engine for Energy Materials Intelligence and Manufacturing

  • Billy Fanady,
  • Calvin C. T. Chow,
  • Zhou Wen,
  • Ning Ma and ,
  • Yao Sun,
  • Kaitao Zhang,
  • Kwok-Tong Chau,
  • Jintao Meng,
  • Feibei Chen and
  • Haitao Zhao
  • + 6 authors+ 1 author

18 October 2026

Energy materials development remains experimentally intensive because relevant knowledge is dispersed across heterogeneous sources, material formulas and processing parameters are strongly coupled, and experimental data are often incomplete. Although...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,565 Views
19 Pages

30 April 2026

Archaeological sites present critical issues related to fragmented documentation systems, the difficulty of integrating stratigraphic analyses with three-dimensional survey data, and the lack of digital tools capable of connecting scientific document...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Digital Technologies in the Heritage Preservation)
  • Review
  • Open Access
171 Views
37 Pages

The construction industry faces persistent challenges in achieving sustainable and circular supply chain management due to fragmented material flows, limited information continuity, and weak coordination among stakeholders. Building Information Model...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Innovative Solutions for Resilient, Sustainable and Durable Infrastructure Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,848 Views
15 Pages

Technological Affordance and the Realities of Citizen Science Projects Developed in Challenging Territories

  • Fábio Grigoletto,
  • Fernanda Antunes de Oliveira,
  • Caio Caradi Momesso,
  • Ibrahim Kamel Rodrigues Nehemy and ,
  • João Emílio de Almeida Junior,
  • Vinícius de Avelar São Pedro,
  • Roberto Greco,
  • Mário Aquino Alves and
  • Tim Edwards
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

14 April 2023

Citizen science has established itself as an important approach to the co-production of knowledge and public participation in scientific research. Combined with digital technologies and online tools, the approach has been celebrated as a path toward...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Exploring the Connection between Digital Communities, Sustainability and Citizen Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,514 Views
23 Pages

A Participatory Workshop Design for Engaging Young People in IT Sustainability

  • Olga Levina,
  • Friederike Lindauer and
  • Aleksandra Revina

21 November 2025

This paper presents an approach to teaching and consolidating skills in the context of sustainability “Prototyping Sustainability–Designing Sustainable IT” (ProS), using the workshop format for participatory and creative learning. T...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,578 Views
31 Pages

Impact of Generative AI on Author’s Metrics and Copyright Ownership: Digital Labour, Ethical Attribution, and Traceability Frameworks for Future Internet Systems

  • Chukwuebuka Joseph Ejiyi,
  • Sandra Chukwudumebi Obiora,
  • Ijuolachi Obiora,
  • Gladys Wauk and ,
  • Maryjane Ejiako,
  • Temitope Omotayo and
  • Olusola Bamisile
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

The integration of generative artificial intelligence (GAI) into digital learning environments is a profound socio-technical transformation. While GAI promises enhanced accessibility and efficiency, it simultaneously obscures the human creativity and...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence: Innovation, Applications and Transformative Experiences—2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
59 Views
19 Pages

From Dialogue of Knowledges to Curricular Co-Creation: The Territorial Intercultural Learning Cycle for Community University Learning in Ecuador

  • Pablo Alejandro Quezada-Sarmiento,
  • Francesc Andreu Martínez-Gallego,
  • Wilson Teodomiro Salas-Álvarez and
  • Patricia Marisol Chango-Cañaveral

6 November 2026

Higher education initiatives engaging Indigenous and ancestral knowledge often document community knowledge without fully integrating it into curricula, assessment, or educational authority. This study systematizes implementation experiences from Con...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Citizenship Education, Interculturality and the Sustainability of Global Society)
  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
6,226 Views
15 Pages

Digital Competence Development in Public Administration Higher Education

  • Balázs Benjámin Budai,
  • Sándor Csuhai and
  • István Tózsa

16 August 2023

Today, citizens’ digital readiness and competence are competitive factors. While users with a high level of digital competence are usually associated with intensive and conscious use by consumers, those with a lower level of competence are char...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Innovation and Advances in Digital Technology-based Educational Design: Digital Competence of Students and Teachers)
  • Article
  • Open Access
248 Views
18 Pages

Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) is a field of cultural transmission in which communities, practices, knowledge, skills, and forms of expression are reinterpreted across generations. Its integration into teacher education can connect local cultural...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,577 Views
40 Pages

Aircraft design is regulated by federal law and must comply with complex regulatory documentation. The complexity of the certification process has resulted in a growing interest in digital transformation, for which models are often used to provide ex...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Airworthiness, Safety and Reliability of Aircraft)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,994 Views
10 Pages

Effective Modulation of Ion Mobility through Solid-State Single-Digit Nanopores

  • Anping Ji,
  • Bo Wang,
  • Guofeng Xia,
  • Jinjie Luo and
  • Zhenghua Deng

9 November 2022

Many experimental studies have proved that ion dynamics in a single-digit nanopore with dimensions comparable to the Debye length deviate from the bulk values, but we still have critical knowledge gaps in our understanding of ion transport in nanocon...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Nanomaterials in Environmental Science)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
2 Citations
6,256 Views
8 Pages

30 March 2024

The digitization of herbarium collections guarantees a preservation and long-term use of scientifically valuable objects, e.g., wide and convenient access to these materials online and exchange between institutions. These are also important elements...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Digitization of Natural History Collections for Biodiversity Science and Conservation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
11,618 Views
18 Pages

Digital Teaching Materials and Their Relationship with the Metacognitive Skills of Students in Primary Education

  • Natalia Lara Nieto-Márquez,
  • Alejandro Baldominos and
  • Miguel Ángel Pérez-Nieto

17 April 2020

Metacognition is a construct that is noteworthy for its relationship with the prediction and enhancement of student performance. It is of interest in education, as well as in the field of cognitive psychology, because it contributes to competencies,...

(This article belongs to the Section Technology Enhanced Education)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,255 Views
31 Pages

Integrated Digital Environments for the Knowledge and Management of Low-Accessible Cultural Heritage: A Multiscale Web-Based Framework

  • Margherita Lasorella,
  • Maria Felicia Letizia Rondinelli,
  • Antonella Guida and
  • Fabio Fatiguso

27 March 2026

Low-accessible Cultural Heritage, including hypogeal sites, rupestrian architectures, and fragile structures, represents a major challenge for conservation, documentation, and continuous monitoring. These limitations stem from multiple inaccessibilit...

  • Review
  • Open Access
118 Citations
20,821 Views
19 Pages

The evolution of digital technologies has resulted in the emergence of diverse interaction technologies. In this paper, we conducted a review of seven domains under a human-centric approach user interface design, human-centered web-based information...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,099 Views
24 Pages

19 January 2022

Throughout the world, including in developed countries, the COVID-19 crisis has revealed and accentuated food insecurity. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations clearly defines food security as a situation of not only availabilit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,351 Views
35 Pages

Circular Design for Made in Italy Furniture: A Digital Tool for Data and Materials Exchange

  • Lorenzo Imbesi,
  • Serena Baiani,
  • Sabrina Lucibello,
  • Emanuele Panizzi and ,
  • Paola Altamura,
  • Viktor Malakuczi,
  • Luca D’Elia,
  • Carmen Rotondi,
  • Mariia Ershova and
  • Alessandro Aiuti
  • + 6 authors+ 1 author

20 January 2026

Despite European and international regulatory frameworks promoting circular economy principles, sustainability in the furniture sector is still challenged by the limited access to reliable information about circular materials for designers, manufactu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Digital Technology for Circular Economy Towards Sustainable Development)
  • Review
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,047 Views
11 Pages

5 August 2022

Over recent years, many architectural and urban surfaces interact with the environment like a changing skin, adaptable to environmental stimuli. The textile technology appears to be the most suitable to meet the requirement of adaptability to the env...

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