PATCH: A Portable Context-Aware ATlas for Browsing Cultural Heritage

In this final chapter, we show an application of discussed data management pervasive technologies for a Cultural Heritage smart scenario by describing the PATCH (Portable context-aware ATlas for Cultural Heritage) system - a ``portable'' prototype of a multimedia and social ``atlas'' of cultural points of interest, which browsing is driven by the context. The system is characterized by several features typical of pervasive systems: i) capability of gathering information from distributed and heterogeneous pervasive data sources (e.g. Sensor Networks, Social Networks, Digital Libraries and Archives, Multimedia Collections, Web Data Services, etc.); ii) context-awareness and, consequently, ability of providing useful and personalized data and services for users on the base of their preferences and of the surrounded environment; iii) advanced data management techniques and technologies necessary to deal with the information variety, velocity and volume; iv) advanced smart services as retrieval, recommendation, analytics and other utilities. A specific application of our system within DATABENC is proposed by means of a real case study related to the Paestum Ruins