Chinese Heritage with European Characteristics: International and Domestic Dimensions of the China’s Cultural Heritage Politics

3DMADMAC – 3D Digitization of European Cultural Heritage

This paper presents a full processing path from 3D-object scanning to its virtual representation with special focus on museum documentation and virtual reality applications. Measurement technique is based on opto-numerical approach using structured light projection. The processing path consists of three main steps: filtering and preparing 3D-clouds of points, merging of directional measurements...

Cultural Heritage

Il Progetto Nu.M.E. (Nuovo Museo Elettronico della Storia della Città di Bologna), è iniziato nel 1997 dall’idea di poter creare un ambiente virtuale che permettesse di realizzare una ricostruzione tridimensionale dell’habitat urbano e delle sue trasformazioni storiche dai giorni nostri al 1200. È nata così la città in 4 dimensioni (tre dimensioni spaziali più una temporale) che permette ai vis...

Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Tourism Development

Cultural heritage and the environment

Air pollution can have a significant influence on the weathering of monuments and on the deterioration of museum objects and prehistoric cave paintings. Three important mechanisms of stone weathering will be discussed, and an overview of analysis techniques invoked for the assessment of the degradation processes will be given. The effects of several air pollutants on works of art are reviewed, ...

Preserving Cultural Heritage: Introduction

When Library Trends devoted its first issue to preservation (Tauber, 1956), the state-of-the-art term was conservation, and the articles dealt with binding, treatments, stack maintenance, and “discarding” (weeding). The focus was almost entirely on libraries, except for an article by Hummel and Barrow on treatment for library and archival material (Hummel & Barrow, 1956). The next Library Trend...