lleida2010, Seminar provides a panoramic view of the state-of-the-art in digital technology and cultural heritage

Posted on 12 May 2010 | Comments Off

The rapid advance of the information and communications Technologies ICT applied to heritage documentation, management and exploitation increasingly enables tools to be rapidly replaced and greatly enhances the work of experts.

However, developments are also raising new questions and posing new challenges. We need to pool technical advances in the photography and digitisation of museum objects and in the 3D reconstruction of buildings and archaeological sites for documentation, conservation and physical or virtual restoration purposes, and we also need to advance also in the use of tools such as geographical information systems GIS in archaeology.

However, it is also important to reflect on heritage diffusion using ICT and on public, free and commercial access. Semantic webs and virtual museums enable institutions to cross geographic and linguistic frontiers with ease. Europeana, the European digital library of culture collections, due to come online this year, is the most important example of a process which is also changing the role of commercial content archives . We need to master the technical aspects of new technologies, conserve digital collections for future generations and create methodologies to efficiently develop, maintain and exchange our digital heritage on an international scale.

This seminar provides a panoramic view of the state-of-the-art in digital technology and cultural heritage.

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