UNESCO defines cultural heritage as “the legacy of physical artefacts and intangible attributes a group or society that are inherited from past generations, maintained in the present bestowed for benefit future generations” [...]

This paper surveys current notions of social and cultural presence as they may help the evaluation of cultural heritage projects. We argue that cultural heritage requires specialized evaluation, as key issues both connect and separate the aims of presence researchers and cultural heritage experts. To support this argument, three case studies of virtual heritage evaluations are summarized, and r...

The advancements of information technologies as applied to the most diverse fields of science define a breakthrough in the accessibility and processing of data for both expert and non-expert users. Nowadays it is possible to evidence an increasingly relevant research effort in the context of those domains, such as that of cultural heritage protection, in which knowledge mapping and sharing cons...

Electrochemical techniques are mainly known in the field of cultural heritage conservation as a tool for the elimination of corrosion layers or the removal of chlorides. However, these techniques are also a valuable tool for assessing the anti-corrosive efficiency of protective coatings. The aim of this study was to evaluate the performance of different coatings for their use in metallic herita...

the past and present, I am concerned about the low value placed on cultural landscapes by national and international agencies charged with promoting, protecting, and managing cultural heritage in the developing world. My research in Bolivia and Peru focuses on a particular class of unappreciated cultural landscape, the mundane, traditional agricultural landscape (Fig. 1).1 It is difficult to co...

The actions for the preservation of cultural heritage must work on identity and specificity places, paying utmost attention to context relationships. analysis these elements is fundamental recognition intrinsic “value” building, cultural, architectural, landscape type “value relations” that building holds with surrounding social economic but, above all, type. methodological approaches defined b...

A consortium, consisting of seven IT-research institutions, the five leading cultural heritage institutions and a number of commercial parties in the Netherlands, has submitted an IT research programme for the digitised cultural heritage, called the Digital Production Line (DPL). Although the partners in the consortium have different points of view on the cultural heritage domain, their common ...

The conservation of World Heritage is critical to the cultural and social sustainability of regions and nations. Risk monitoring and preventive diagnosis of threats to heritage sites in any given ecosystem are a complex and challenging task. Taking advantage of the performance of Earth Observation technologies, we measured the impacts of hitherto imperceptible and poorly understood factors of g...

The paper describes reading criteria for the documentation for important buildings in Milan, Italy, as a case study of the research on the integration of new technologies to obtain 3D multi-scale representation architectures. In addition, affords an overview of the actual optical 3D measurements sensors and techniques used for surveying, mapping, digital documentation and 3D modeling applicatio...