This article presents the results of a survey on use digital avatars and agents in museums places cultural interest. The optimization virtual heritage domain is an interdisciplinary undertaking this paper investigates pertinent research solutions suggests ways forward. questions examined relate to (a) technological characteristics heritage-related uses users’ agents, patterns that emerge, (b) s...

Museums often lack the possibility to present archaeological or cultural heritage sites in a realistic and interesting way. Thus are proposing a new way to show augmented reality applications of cultural heritage sites at remote places like museums. In the exhibition space large wall-filling photographs of the real site are superimposed with interactive contextual annotations like 3D reconstruc...

The world population is concentrated near the coasts, as are a large number of Cultural World Heritage sites, defined by the UNESCO. Using spatially explicit sea-level estimates for the next 2000 years and high-resolution topography data, we compute which current cultural heritage sites will be affected by sea-level rise at different levels of sustained future warming. As indicators for the pre...

Cultural heritage around the globe suffers from wars, natural disasters and human negligence. The importance of cultural heritage documentation is well recognized and there is an increasing pressure to document our heritage both nationally and internationally. This has alerted international organizations to the need for issuing guidelines describing the standards for documentation. Charters, re...

Over 1,650 participants from 94 countries came together in Florence from 9-14 November 2014 for the 18 General Assembly of the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS). 1300 technical proposals and the exchange between heritage specialists have culminated in the following Declaration of principles and recommendations on the value of cultural heritage and landscapes for promoting pe...