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3. Smart Indicators 3.5 Smart Environment Culture and identity

Heksinki

Most initiatives are carried out by the Finnish State. The City Museum and the City Archive have digitalized for example thousands of photographs and other items from their collections and save them to their databases. The City also participates in international initiatives, like: www.europeana.eu

Bordeaux

http://www.heritage‐prod.fr/Bordeaux‐en‐3D/le‐projet‐ b3d.html

Taipei

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Mexico City

Scanning of heritage documents in order to make them available for public in the future.

In its fifth year, the forum entitled: "The Archives: memories of the people, heritage of humanity" held in August 2011, addressed issues such as Cultural Heritage Conservation Policies. This forum was organised by the Ministry of Culture of the Federal District in coordination with the National Autonomous University of Mexico and the Old College of San Ildefonso.

Using augmented reality that allows people to visit the city in a bygone era. QR codes are also used to provide information on the main UNESCO Heritage sites in the city.

The Taipei in the Making project endeavors to digitize and create a value‐added information retrieval system for parliamentary documents authorized by Taipei City Council. The outcome includes 255,982 digitalized pages of parliamentary journals, 266,644 pages of parliamentary gazettes, and over 65 thousand minutes of the Council Chamber video recordings, dated since 1969. The project builds a web site with a multitude of search capacity and provides an instant messaging reference service basing on the digitized content. It demonstrates an holistic view of the representative democracy of Taipei

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