The H2IOSC project aims to establish a federated cluster of European distributed research infrastructures involved in the humanities and cultural heritage sectors, with operating nodes across Italy. Through four key RIs—DARIAH-IT, CLARIN, OPERAS, and E-RIHS—the project promotes collaboration among researchers with interdisciplinary expertise. Within this framework, DIGILAB functions as the digital access platform for the Italian node of E-RIHS. Conceived as a socio-technical infrastructure for the Heritage Science community, DIGILAB is designed to manage heterogeneous data and metadata through advanced knowledge graph representations. The platform adheres to the FAIR principles and supports the complete data lifecycle, enabling the development and maintenance of Heritage Digital Twins. DIGILAB integrates diverse categories of information related to cultural sites and objects, encompassing historical and artistic datasets, diagnostic analyses, 3D models, and real-time monitoring data. This monitoring capability is achieved through the deployment of cutting-edge Internet of Things (IoT) technologies and large-scale Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). As part of DIGILAB, we developed SENNSE (v1.0), a fully open hardware/software platform dedicated to environmental and structural monitoring. SENNSE allows the remote, real-time observation and control of cultural heritage sites (collecting microclimatic parameters such as temperature, humidity, noise levels) and of cultural objects (collecting object-specific data including vibrations, light intensity, and ultraviolet radiation). The visualization and analytical tools integrated within SENNSE transform these datasets into actionable insights, thereby supporting advanced research and conservation strategies within the Cultural Heritage domain. In the following sections, we provide a detailed description of the SENNSE platform, outlining its hardware components and software modules, and discussing its benefits. Furthermore, we illustrate its application through two representative use cases: one conducted in a controlled laboratory environment and another implemented in a real-world heritage context, exemplified by the “Biblioteca Bernardini” in Lecce, Italy.

Taking into account that the new capabilities of modern e-book readers can manage a lot of media suck as audio, video and allow an excellent interaction with the user than could add a comments or bookmarks, activate applet such as test or example in a educational e-book, the e-book could be considered as a real hypermedia document with strong interaction with its reader. Until now, unfortunately, the e-book has been seen as a transposition of the paper model onto a digital one, aiming to reduce the time and costs of distribution; thus the author has no incentive to rethink the content for the potential offered by the electronic medium. The task is no longer to provide a form of mediation between digital support and traditional book, but to reinterpret the modalities of spread of knowledge. Here we present an attempt, using W2000 methodology to arrive at a structured approach to design that place the authors at the center of the process. Using this analysis we present EB2000, a new Web-based authoring tool in which the authors can create specific e-book content, cooperate with other author or third parties for multimedia content, and to publishing the complete e-book in standard format.

The growth of Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) calls for new conceptual tools that enable web engineers to model the design complexity unleashed by innovative interaction (with increasing communication potential) and to carefully consider the impact of the design decisions on the optimal flow of the User Experience (UX). In this paper we illustrate how is particularly relevant for RIA engineering not only to capture existing RIA technologies with suitable design artifacts but also to model an effective dialogue between users and RIA interfaces. Through a case study, we propose a set of conceptual design primitives (Rich-IDM) to enable web engineers to characterize the fluid, smooth and organic nature of the user interaction, and to take design decisions which meet both usability and communication requirements.

IT systems have strongly influenced the travel experience of tourists. In detail, the trend in the tourist sector is the need to have advanced travel applications able to combine several features such as GPS-based positioning systems, good user interaction, and intelligent recommending systems in order to satisfy user requests. Following this trend, this paper presents the results of the HerMeS project. HerMeS project intends to enhance the cultural heritage (tangible and intangible) of the Lazio region by providing new types of advanced tools and services. The project's stakeholders mention cultural events, tourists, citizens and cultural operators, and Public Administration (PA). The HerMeS tools connect the heterogeneous needs and the interests of the actors involved. Through well-structured artificial intelligence algorithms, HerMeS can offer valuable information and personalized advice in the form of customized itineraries and points of interest constructed by each person who will interact with the system. Finally, HerMeS is predisposed to be a new project at the forefront of the use and reuse of information -data-not only for elaboration in the field of new cultural perspectives but also toward the definition of a Smart City.