D2.1 Faro research and ICT recommendations< - D2.1 Faro research and ICT recommendations D2.1 “Faro Convention realisation” is (a) an extensive literature review on the Faro Convention and accompanying material, (b) a review of interactions and social paradigms that follow and implement the principles of the Faro Convention and (c) a presentation of the main implementation guidelines so that PLUGGY can adhere to the principles of the Faro Convention. D2.1 explores the relevant literature, scholarly publications, and project reports and guidelines originating from the implementation of Faro in order to ensure: That the project will demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of the Faro Convention guiding principles. That the project’s deliverables will adhere to the principles of the Faro Convention and will address the concerns of the final users… Read More
D2.2 Users Engagement Report - D2.2 Users Engagement Report The purpose of this deliverable is to analyse projects related to the field of cultural heritage and extrapolate the techniques they used for user’s engagement. In order to create an efficient connection between the users and the platform, the application of a good user’s engagement techniques is essential. With a good plan the platform and its related applications will be able to engage and entertain the users, which in turn will increase the chance of success of the project. Users engagement is a vast topic and as such, there are many different interpretations of it, for this reason a great number of projects were analysed in order to provide a concrete answer to this challenge. Read More
D2.3 Social Platform Design and Specification - D2.3 Social Platform Design and Specification This deliverable is intended to be the reference document for the development of the PLUGGY’s Social Platform modules. It centralises the requirements that this module will satisfy and the decision processes that have led to these requirements. To remain useful for PLUGGY’s developers, it is meant to be a live document, firstly released early in the project as a draft, and updated over the project’s course. The deliverable uses a combination of text, UML diagrams, and graphics to illustrate user interface design decisions. Read More
D2.4 Curatorial Tool Design and Specification - D2.4 “Curatorial Tool design and specification” is intended to be the reference document for the development of the Curatorial Tool. It centralises the requirements that this component will satisfy and the decision processes that have led to these requirements. To remain useful for the developers in the project, it is meant to be a live document which is released early in the project as a draft, as MS3 at M10, and updated over the duration of WP2 until its official delivery in M18. The deliverable uses a combination of text, UML diagrams, and graphics to illustrate user interface design decisions. In exactly the same fashion, D2.3 is intended to be the reference document for the development of the Social Platform… Read More
D2.5 IPR Report - D2.5 IPR Report Deliverable D2.5 “IPR report” presents the results of an analysis of various licenses that can be used within PLUGGY both in relation to (1) the software platforms and applications that will be deployed and released and (2) the data that will be gathered from existing archives and/or archived and curated by the PLUGGY users. This deliverable describes a strategy that takes into consideration both the open source approach adopted by the consortium and the possibility for any external organization or developer to create non-commercial and/or commercial applications by retaining (in whole or in part) their copyright in the creative works and information embodied into their derivative applications. The deliverable identifies as suitable open source licenses for the… Read More
D3.1 Architecture specification - D3.1 Architecture specification refers to the PLUGGY Architecture, which addresses the Obj2 objective of the project: Obj2 - Design an architecture of the social platform to allow the easy integration of applications, the scalability of the platform and the support of specialized devices (AR/VR/trackers etc.). Deliverable D3.1 is delivered as a part of the T3.1 Architecture design task. The goal of this task is to specify technical details for the system architecture, i.e. identify main system components, their interactions and specify integration interfaces. Input into this task was the overall functional specification and user requirements identified in Work Package 2. Part of the work in this task was also to survey existing applications, tools, frameworks and libraries and identify which… Read More
D3.2 Social Platform - PLUGGY designed and implemented an innovative Social Platform, providing functionality similar to popular social media platforms, adjusted to a heritage-centric point of view, web-based, easy to access and easy to contribute to. PLUGGY’s social platform users are able to use its online web based platform to combine bits and pieces from different digital content into one comprehensive meaningful story. The story then resides within the platform as a Virtual Exhibition, accessible by any user and application of the platform. The PLUGGY Social Platform is the front-end to a web-based system that provides social interaction and digital media content crowdsourcing functionality and is designed based on a modular architecture, allowing web and mobile applications to be plugged in it and utilise… Read More
D3.3 Curatorial Tool - D3.3 Curatorial Tool D3.4 "Curatorial Tool"  describes the implementation aspects and functionalities of the final version of PLUGGY’s curatorial tool, as part of PLUGGY’s social platform. The deliverable aims to provide an overview of the technical implementation of the final version of the curatorial tool and its individual curation applications, along with information of the tools’ capabilities and how they can be used. PLUGGY’s curatorial tool is a core part of PLUGGY social platform functionality. It constitutes of two web-based applications, Blog story and Timeline story, that enable PLUGGY users in creating and experiencing cultural heritage exhibitions using PLUGGY platform’s assets. PLUGGY’s social platform users are able to use its online web-based platform to combine bits and pieces from different… Read More
D3.4 Content Management Services - The base architecture of PLUGGY includes three main modules: A Social Platform, a Curatorial Tool and a Content Management Services. The D3.4 deliverable describes the content management services and is delivered in 3 phases: - MS3.4 Conceptual prototype (M10), - MS3.8 Technical prototype (M18) - and the final D3.4 (M30). As all of these are SW deliverables. This written accompanying document will briefly describe the usage and main functionalities of the SW. This final version of the document describes the online documentation and source code of the implementation. Services implemented within D3.4 are based on requirements raised from D2.3 (Social Platform design and specification), D3.2 (Social Platform), D2.4 (Curatorial Tool design and specification), D3.3 (Curatorial Tool) and all applications developed… Read More
D4.1 AR App - D4.2 describes the various applications (the PLUGGY3D suite) that were created to import, edit, process, manage and create AR and VR content within the PLUGGY Social Platform and Curatorial Tools. The PLUGGY3D suite includes the following applications: • PLUGGY3D Create – to edit and process 3d object files within a web-based platform • PLUGGY3D Curate – to create AR and VR exhibitions within a web-based platform • PLUGGY3D Experience Web – to experience the exhibitions in a web-based application integrated in PLUGGY Social Platform. • PLUGGY3D Experience Mobile – to experience the exhibitions created with the web-based application, within a mobile-based (Android) platform. A Video demonstration of the PLUGGY3D Experience Android Demo can be found at the following link: https://vimeo.com/350289187 Read More
D4.2 – Collaborative Game App - The deliverable D4.2 “Collaborative Game App” describes “Games Hunter”, the marketable name for one of the Pluggable Applications within the PLUGGY project. The novelty of this application is the authoring app, which aims to develop collaborative games without previous programming knowledge, providing basic blocks such as rules, routes, packages to create easy-to-use games where end-users are engaged into cultural activities through challenges, trials and other gamification-based techniques. The entire tool consists of a Basic Editor (“drag and drop”), a more complex Editor Pro and the player which is exactly Games Hunter app. This deliverable is of type OTHER, hence the main output are the different apps, available from the links below. This report is an accompanying document for the actual… Read More
D4.3 Geolocation App - D4.3 presents the functionalities and the tools that have been created to materialize PLUGGY Pins and geolocation cultural tours within PLUGGY platform. PLUGGY Pins consists of two main tools. The first one, PLUGGY Pins Create, allows the creation of cultural geolocation tours in a user friendly environment. It allows users to choose the location of interest, provide a description and add assets like audio and pictures that are culturally connected to this location. These assets could either be uploaded or found in online cultural libraries that are connected to PLUGGY curatorial platform. The second one, PLUGGY Pins Experience, provides access to the available tours through PLUGGY social platform. The user is allowed to access and follow the path of the… Read More
D4.4 3D Sonic App - D4.4 “3D Sonic App” consists of the various applications (using the marketable name “the PlugSonic suite”) that were created to import, edit, process, manage and create audio content within the PLUGGY Social Platform and Curatorial Tools. The PlugSonic suite includes the following applications: • PlugSonic Sample – to edit and process individual audio samples within a webbased platform • PlugSonic Soundscape – to create and experience 3D interactive soundscapes within a web-based platform • PlugSonic Soundscape Experience Mobile – to experience the 3D interactive soundscapes created with the web-based application, within a mobile-based (iOS) platform The deliverable is of type OTHER and this report is an accompanying report to the actual developed software. Video demonstrations of the various applications can… Read More
D4.5 Guidelines and Instructions for PLUGGY Apps - D4.5 gives guidelines and instructions for future developers of the PLUGGY pluggable applications and plugins. It condenses not only the development experience gained by the PLUGGY consortium, but also that of the external developers who participated in the App Challenge during the project and greatly contributed to the improvement of the PLUGGY Application Programming Interface (API). The PLUGGY architecture was devised to be modular and to provide an API for the future development of applications, which will provide novel ways to experience and curate cultural heritage content. The PLUGGY consortium provides developers with a set of resources that allow the unassisted development of such applications, including:  The Guidelines and Instructions for PLUGGY apps (this document).  A set of… Read More
D5.1 Digital Libraries Presentation - D5.1 showcases the functionality of PLUGGY’s Curatorial Tool to link artefacts and selected collections from external digital libraries with PLUGGY’s Social Platform and Curatorial Tool and present them in the form of virtual exhibitions. The purpose of this functionality is to provide end users of the Social Platform with a simple tool to link artefacts from variouslibraries in comprehensive stories that will enhance the storytelling ability of the individual or professional users’ collections (both physical and digital). The following stories that were created are stored in the Social Platform and are available to all end users. They comprise of 2 timeline stories and 3 blog stories, thus showcasing the variety of tools provided to the end users of PLUGGY to… Read More
D5.2 AR stories - Deliverable D5.2 “AR Stories” describes the AR/VR stories that were created to showcase the capabilities of the AR/VR Application of PLUGGY’s suit of applications, as well as PLUGGY’s Social Platform and Curatorial Tool. At the time of delivery, the following four exhibitions have been created, with each one having both AR and VR versions. All stories were tested and evaluated during the summer pilots (August – September 2019) in PIOP’s Silversmithing Museum in Ioannina. • The pistol of Edward John Trelawny • The famous Megillot of Ioannina • Silver kalamari • Silver cutlery set The stories can be found online in PLUGGY’s Social Platform at the following addresses: The pistol of Edward John Trelawny https://beta.pluggy.eu/exhibitions/5d31f51434b84b650875f701 The famous Megillot of Ioannina… Read More
D5.3 Collaborative Games - Deliverable D5.3 “Collaborative Games” describes the mobile games that were created to showcase the capabilities of the collaborative gamification app (GameHunter) of PLUGGY’s suit of applications. At the time of delivery, the following three collaborative games have been created. • Exhibition Centuries in Art • Exhibition Carpathian Nature • History of ESM by an architecture The games were tested and evaluated during the summer pilots (August – September 2019) in East Slovakian Museum. The GameHunter app along with the respective created games can be found in Google Store and App Store. The app consists of two modes: 1. The Game Creation Tool (For Advanced Users), which is part of the mobile app but also integrated into PLUGGY’s Social Platform and… Read More
D5.4 Geolocation Stories - Deliverable D5.4 “Geolocation Stories” is of type DEM and presents shortly the tours that have been created to showcase the experience provided through PLUGGY geolocation web app that is integrated in PLUGGY social platform. Twelve tours have been created containing several of stories and each story is connected to a geolocation pin on the map. A short list and the corresponding address of each one of the uploaded tours could be found below: 1. Papadiamantis in Athens - 12 stories, Athens, Greece https://beta.pluggy.eu/exhibitions/plugin/5d7a563b81dab7366ab131a8/5d9b131cf69c368a8230c24d 2. The legends of the marathon - 5 stories, Marathon, Greece https://beta.pluggy.eu/exhibitions/plugin/5d7a563b81dab7366ab131a8/5d9b168ff69c368a8230c28c 3. Industrial Gas Museum - 24 stories, Athens, Greece https://beta.pluggy.eu/exhibitions/plugin/5d7a563b81dab7366ab131a8/5d7a13662ecc12c892b43c13 4. The Parthenon - 5 stories, Athens, Greece https://beta.pluggy.eu/exhibitions/plugin/5d7a563b81dab7366ab131a8/5d9b1a00f69c368a8230c2b2 5. Invisible Routes - 27 stories,… Read More
D5.5 3D Sonic Narratives - This deliverable describes the various soundscapes that were created to showcase the capabilities of PlugSonic Soundscape and the Pluggy social platform. At the time of delivery 4 different exhibitions have been created. Work is ongoing; however, the four published soundscapes are: • Open-Air Water Power Museum, Dimitsana • Life in the Dark, Natural History Museum • Albert Memorial Soundscape • Other Worlds They can be found at the following addresses: Open-Air Water Power Museum, Dimitsana https://beta.pluggy.eu/exhibitions/plugin/5ca1e3cbf0adadd7c66b31e8/5d25baee34b84b650875f410 Life in the Dark, Natural History Museum https://beta.pluggy.eu/exhibitions/plugin/5ca1e3cbf0adadd7c66b31e8/5d396d0734b84b650875fbbf Albert Memorial Soundscape https://beta.pluggy.eu/exhibitions/plugin/5ca1e3cbf0adadd7c66b31e8/5d27159c34b84b650875f538 Other Worlds https://beta.pluggy.eu/exhibitions/plugin/5ca1e3cbf0adadd7c66b31e8/5d160e609a19c52cb4dab520 Read More
D7.2 Community Outreach and Policy Briefing - D7.2 - Community Outreach and Policy Briefing is the public deliverable of the H2020 project PLUGGY. This is an accompanying report of the actual initiatives and activities developed within the framework of PLUGGY Project’s communication and dissemination strategy, as outlined and described in detail in WP7. The first draft of this document presents the community outreach and policy briefing activities of PLUGGY up to month 12. The second draft presents the equivalent activities up to month 24. During the first 12 months, and following the guidelines outlined in D7.1 Communication and Dissemination Strategy, PLUGGY’s Users Community has been elaborated and the Community Outreach Database has been built, in order for the Communication and Dissemination Strategy to be applied through various… Read More
D7.3 Dissemination Activities and Materials - D7.3 - Dissemination Activities and Material is the public deliverable of the H2020 project PLUGGY. This is an accompanying report of actual dissemination and communication material produced. This work was carried out as part of WP7 Communication and Dissemination. During the first 12 months of the project, and following the guidelines outlined in D7.1 Communication and Dissemination Strategy, PLUGGY produced the project branding, the website and the communication and dissemination kit (leaflet, rollup banner and other items). In this period, the main social media channels have also been activated, including Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn. These activities were followed by the release of the introductory press release, and the creation of a series of mailing lists including key stakeholders, newsletter’s… Read More
D7.4 Report on “App challenge” - In order to promote the use of PLUGGY and demonstrate its pluggable nature, the consortium organised an open competition (app challenge), where external organisations and individuals were invited to resent ideas for the exploitation of the PLUGGY Social Platform and Curatorial Tool. The submitted applications were evaluated based on the following high-level criteria: (a) idea with the best commercial potential. This category aimed at involving companies. (b) idea with the best education potential. This category aimed at engaging educators and teachers in exploring how PLUGGY can be used as part of educational courses, workshops and modules. (c) idea with the biggest social and cultural impact. This category aimed at demonstrating the societal potential of PLUGGY. As also the following: (d)… Read More
D7.5 Report on the Final demonstration - The D7.5 “Report on the Final demonstration” is carried out as part of PLUGGY WP7 Communication and dissemination. This deliverable focuses on the effort made for the promotion and organisation of the PLUGGY final event and the dissemination of its overall results and outcomes. PLUGGY final event was organized under the title: “Europeans to become online heritage curators” and took place at INNOVATHENS, the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Hub of Technopolis City of Athens, in Athens, Greece on the 20th of November 2019. The final event was organized by the Coordinator of the Project, ICCS, and was targeted to all citizens interested in the promotion and preservation of cultural heritage as well as to the heritage communities and the cultural heritage… Read More

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