3D Information Technologies in Cultural Heritage Preservation and Popularisation

3D Information Technologies in Cultural Heritage Preservation and Popularisation

Technologies

Elements of cultural heritage preservation and popularisation are defined in the Convention Concerning the Protection of theWorld Cultural and Natural Heritage, which came into force in 1975 and obliges United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) member states to protect cultural and natural heritage [1]. This protection applies to the following areas: documentation, protection, reconstruction, restoration, conservation, dissemination, and popularisation [1]. Cultural heritage can be endangered by human actions (random or deliberate), forces of nature (floods, fires), or the mere passage of time. Examples of such activities, leading to the loss of elements of cultural heritage, are presented in [1], including such phenomena as [1]: the fire of the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris (France), the destruction of the Old Bridge in Mostar by tank fire (Bosnia and Herzegovina), the blowing up of the Temple of Bel in Palmyra (Syria), cannon shelling of Buddha statues in Bamiyan (Afghanistan), the fire of the National Museum in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), the theft of petroglyphs from southwestern Arizona (USA), the destruction of Patan Durbar Square by earthquake (Nepal), and the natural collapse of the Azure Window in Gozo (Malta). Cases of irretrievable loss of elements of cultural heritage indicate the importance of its protection, including their documentation, but also popularisation.

Milosz, Marek (editor)
Kęsik, Jacek (editor)

https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/96756

applied sciences

2023

Dwi Marina

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Doi:10.3390/books978-3-0365-6282-7

pdf

English

Textbooks

ISBN 978-3-0365-6281-0 (Hbk)