European Year of Cultural Heritage: History, Purpose and Strategic Objectives

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...

The Competing Objectives Underlying the Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage

Traditional knowledge has played, and still plays, a vital role in the daily lives of the vast majority of people. Traditional knowledge is essential to the food security and health of millions of people in the developing world. ... In addition, ... the use and continuous development by local farmers of plant varieties and the sharing and diffusion of these varieties and the knowledge associate...

[ars.edu] - European Network of Cultural Heritage Education Centres

The aim of this project is to provide a strong link between Culture and Education through the establishment of a trans European network of Cultural Heritage Education Centres delivering digital educational objects specifically designed accordingly to different user profiles ranging between pupils, students, mentors and tourists. Education institutions and professionals should be taken into acco...

Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Tourism Development

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...