European researchers working on the Mosaica project are developing portals that will enable users to virtually travel to both ancient and new destinations. “Mosaica was an opportunity to carve a niche in the semantic web for cultural diversity; to transfer young people’s inherent fascination for technology into a learning experience; and to galvanize communities around important topics like preserving cultural heritage,” says project leader Raphael Attias. “We’ve created a platform for playing and learning; with games as a hook for younger generations whose attention is harder to get–and keep–these days.” Mosaica’s goal is to bring the world into every classroom and every home. The project has developed a demo that features Jewish cultural heritage and has three main modes of use–explorative, guided, and collaborative. Users can explore Jewish heritage on their own time, take a guided tour or virtual expedition that provides them with prompts and recommendations on dynamically generated maps, or work together to share knowledge. Users can make notes on cultural objects, including free-text comments or semantically annotated comments using dynamic ontology creation, and contribute content such as photos. Students also can Mosaica to record their own virtual expeditions.
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