Integrating agents and virtual institutions for sharing cultural heritage on the Web

This work outlines the research activities carried out by our groups in the direction of the implementation of a tool for sharing natural and cultural heritage on the web. The tool will serve as a support to teachers and people involved in scientific and cultural activities (for example, archaeologists, historians, geologists, directors of museums and of exhibitions) for making historical, naturalistic, artistic content avail- able in a game-like but scientifically well founded way based on Virtual Institutions and intelligent software agents. Our approach is illustrated on the example of the city of Uruk, which is believed to be the first city on Earth, where the culture of ancient Sumerians is preserved in terms of the natural environment, human behaviour and architecture.