Sicily on the Net

Not a tourism portal, but rather the Heritage Project's multimedia platform, the fruit of nearly 30 years of study and research, accessible free of charge to the entire community. The portal was therefore not created for profit, but simply to allow the community to freely access knowledge of Sicily's cultural heritage. This is thanks to over 30.000 pages, including over 10.000 images, within the first multimedia archive of Sicily's cultural heritage, containing over 10.000 catalogued and georeferenced assets. The overall objective of the Heritage Project is to contribute to the valorization and promotion of Sicilian cultural heritage in all its forms, from the tangible (historical and artistic cultural heritage, landscape and natural heritage) to the intangible (tradition, folklore, art, food and wine, traditional crafts), providing a service of knowledge and promotion of the territory, accessible free of charge to all, and contributing to the economic and tourism development of our island.

An essential element of the project is the "Heritage" Cultural Heritage Telematic Archive, a new generation database containing the material and immaterial cultural heritage of Sicily and Malta and has the following characteristics which are typical of web 3.0:

  • GeoWeb: Information on geo-referenced interactive Google maps, localization and identification of the path to reach the property (where relevant). Some assets are also visible on Street view, therefore with a 360 ° view of the context in which the asset is located.
  • Social Web: Interactive cards containing text, images, videos and in-depth documents and with the possibility of inserting reviews, experiences. voting, comments and sharing on various social networks.
  • Multi thematic and Multi territorial:  The archive allows the visualization on web pages of individual thematic and/or territorial instances. By assigning new categories and tags, you can create an unlimited number of thematic views.
  • Advanced Search: by keywords, phrases (full text), cities, places, locations or geographical areas chosen by the user, physical location of the user, categories, subcategories and tags
  • WikiWeb: possibility of autonomous management of the cards by the authors or collaborators themselves
  • Multilingual: the innovative neural machine translation system is used.
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The Heritage Archive can be useful to:

  • Scholars: Students and anyone who wants to know Sicily through thousands of files accompanied by images of monuments and other tangible and intangible assets)
  • Turisti: Through a system of filters in the areas of the portal linked to the main tourist resorts and cities, the Tourist Map and the related cards of the most significant monuments (Monuments in Evidence) are displayed

I invite you to learn more about the Heritage Project to understand how and why this portal was created.

Ignazio CaloggeroSicily Heritage Project

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