Yesterday i was in Milan. It’s been a very interesting day. In my EU-funding-programs-guanxi-development i was in search for cultural heritage contents and tech applications definition and design. First of all i met prof.ssa Silvia Lusuardi Siena, Director of Archeology Dept. of Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore. We discussed about Superintendence for Architectural Heritage and Landscape policies, Paleochristian heritage, EU funds and more…
Then, talking with Paolo Magni and Fabrizio Amarilli of Fondazione Politecnico di Milano we started exploring opportunities in Cultural Heritage enhancement by means of technologies as Augmented Reality and QR Codes. We found that a QR Code is better than a RFID TAG mainly because…
- it’s cheaper
- you won’t need any tag rewriting if the database of Point of Interest and catalogued assets will ever change
- you will have to deal with a low criticality if the tag is removed or damaged
- you won’t need an ad hoc device to read it (i.e. NFC device, you can simply use your smartphone)