Virtual reality technology has been applied to the protection of cultural heritage for about 20 years. However, methods or systems of cultural heritage reported in previous studies are still unable to represent large-scale cultural heritage sites such as the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, the Struve Geodetic Arc and the boundaries of the Roman Empire. We aimed at constructing a large-scale cultu...

The tradition of organized protection of cultural heritage has lasted for a century and a half in the territory of today’s Slovenia. The first laws, as well as in other republics of the former common state, were issued at the end of World War II and since then significant activity in this field began to develop. The first bill on the level of the Republic was passed in 1948, followed by the law...

The availability of intuitive, user-friendly, and specialized software to work with 3D models of cultural heritage artefacts is as important as the availability of low-cost and robust data acquisition techniques for the adoption of digitized 3D models in cultural heritage research. The number of available high-quality digitized artefacts increases rapidly with the advent of low-cost 3D scanning...

Cultural heritage buildings were typically built without considering seismic action and are therefore potentially susceptible to earthquake damage. The performance states and protection objectives developed for ordinary buildings are not directly applicable since they do not address the cultural importance of the heritage buildings. This paper proposes a seismic conservation strategy for cultur...

“OF MAKING MANY BOOKS THERE IS NO END,” writes the biblical author of Ecclesiastes—and so it seems that of the making of many international heritage conventions, principles, and guidelines there also seems to be no end in sight. Beginning with the 1931 Athens Charter for the Restoration of Historic Monuments, through the 1964 Venice Charter, and continuing with the recent adoption of the 2003 I...

The problem of deterioration of works of art is particularly relevant in Countries like Italy that are rich in Cultural Heritage. In fact, following UNESCO data, in Italy are located 2/3 of the Cultural Heritage known in the World. Archeological areas, statues, buildings, museums, churches and items there located, hypogean environments, are subjected to different stresses due the geographical p...

The MPEG-7 is the dominant standard for multimedia content description; thus, the audiovisual Digital Library contents should be described in terms of MPEG-7. Since there exists a huge amount of audiovisual content in the cultural heritage domain, it is expected that several cultural heritage objects, as well as entities related with them (i.e. people, places, events etc.), have been described ...

Since cultural monuments and/or heritage sites, depending on the degree of their international recognition, generate economic activity and contribute to the economy of the countries in which they are located, one should regard them as valuable economic resources. Th e aim of this work is to fi rstly, address the issue of economically eff ective and socially responsible management of cultural mo...

The article examines the meaning and scope of ‘due diligence’ within spheres Art Law Cultural Heritage Law, especially concerning authenticity clean provenance, to determine what can legitimately be expected from parties involved thus avoid legal uncertainty vis-à-vis burden proof, suitability indemnity restitution claims. Regarding methodology, comparative methods are used examine institutes i...