Cultural heritage documentation is the more generic term used to define the intelligent collection of all kinds of information needed to know an object in order to document it before restoration, conservation and management or just to share knowledge and to transfer it to the future. The numerical formats used today to record all the information (from historical to the metric and/or physical da...

Globally, sacred groves represent a traditional form of community-based conservation, recognized as areas cultural and religious importance to local people. In some cases, the entire community guards against desecration of, or unauthorized access to, such sites, either by its members outsiders; in others, non-recognition customary rights is linked degradation. This paper uses case study three s...

There is increasing interest in creating 3D photo-realistic computer models of monuments or heritage buildings, both indoors and outdoors. Our approach to 3D Reconstruction is to use automated distance measurements together with photographs. Two technologies are used: i) a combined laser digital camera sensor for data acquisition and ii) mobility for resolving spatial occlusions. After a few sc...

Cultural heritage documentation is the more generic term used to define the intelligent collection of all kinds of information needed to know an object in order to document it before restoration, conservation and management or just to share knowledge and to transfer it to the future. The numerical formats used today to record all the information (from historical to the metric and/or physical da...

Today the long-term conservation of cultural heritage is a big challenge: often the artworks were subjected to unknown interventions, which eventually were found to be harmful. The noninvasive investigation of the conservation treatments to which they were subjected to is a crucial step in order to undertake the best conservation strategies. We describe here the preliminary results on a quick a...

Our cultural heritage is made with almost all type of materials produced by the nature and used by men to realize several types of artefacts from very simple mono-components to complex structures integrating inorganic and organic matters. These cultural heritage objects, even if made with the more “resistant” stones and metals, are influenced by the environmental parameters, which can modify th...

This paper presents the Indiana Ontology for modeling the knowledge about Mount Bego’s rock art and its exploitation in the IndianaMAS project. Although many projects use ontologies for semantic processing of cultural heritage digital objects, we are not aware of such ontologies in the rock art domain. Also, the Indiana Ontology is fully and seamlessly integrated with the IndianaMAS framework c...

Conservation activities of cultural heritage in Turkey were started the late 19th century and accelerated after second half 20th century. In this context, inventory registration started, site boundary definitions carried out administrative organizational institutions structured throughout country. 
 These conservation also expanded Cappadocia, one Turkey’s first region that a National Park...

The particularity of cultural heritage and its interaction with the theme of energy efficiency has often been analysed either for the purposes of integrating climate control systems in listed buildings, which can be quite a complicated problem [ASHRAE, 2003] [CIBSE, 2002], or in the framework of the conservation of cultural heritage, using approaches which at times can be overly sectoral – [Tet...

A conflict between the preservation of the character of existing historic towns and “change” has formed the central argument for conservation. More recently, heritage has superseded conservation, where marketing of heritage as a product according to the demands of the consumer, mainly tourists, has resulted in the commercialisation of heritage over conservation values. Today, the symbiosis of b...