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Role of Digital Technologies, Robotics, and Augmented Realities

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Abstract

Several examples testify how the evolution in applied technologies to cultural heritage has improved significantly in the last decades in terms of accuracy and reliability of measurement, restitution, and management of the acquired data. This evolution is not always accompanied by the simplification of procedures, lowering of costs, and, more importantly, awareness-raising of the identity value of the investigated asset.

In this article, some case studies where different types of technologies have been used are presented together with a recent study of applied robotics in cultural heritage. The aim is to construct an exhaustive picture of the technologies currently in use within the complex conservation process. To follow, a series of urgent reflections are introduced in order to stimulate, contribute, and increase the necessary interdisciplinary and intercultural debate on the issue of safeguarding cultural assets as a driving force for civil progress, paying particular attention to 3D digital survey.

Above all, the paper expands the issue to a wider analysis of the general and progressive anthropological transformations produced on human society by the speed of technological innovation. Finally, the paper will attempt to verify how much and what role the identity values expressed by cultural heritage will still exercise on technologically globalized cities and societies of the twenty-first century.

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Abbreviations

AI:

Artificial Intelligence

CHARISMA:

Cultural Heritage Advanced Research Infrastructures SMA

CIPA:

Scientific Committee on Heritage Documentation

CNR:

Italian National Research Council

DARIAH:

Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities

EPOCH:

European Research Network on Excellence in Processing Open Cultural Heritage

EU:

European Union

HUL:

Historic Urban Landscape

ICOMOS:

International Council on Monuments and Sites

ICT:

Information and Communication Technology

IoG:

Internet of Games

IoT:

Internet of Things

JPI:

Joint Programming Initiative on Cultural Heritage

SDGs:

United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

SEAV:

Spanish Society of Virtual Archaeology

SfM:

Structure for Motion

UAV:

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

UNESCO:

United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization

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  1. Institute of Cultural Heritage Sciences of Italian National Research Council – ISPC CNR (formerly Institute for Technologies Applied to Cultural Heritage – ITABC CNR) - ICOMOS IT (Advisor and Executive Board Member) - International Committee of Architectural Photogrammetry - CIPA (Expert Member), Rome, Italy

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This chapter organizes and expands the concepts expressed by the Author in previous printed papers related to some speeches presented during two Conferences at the University Federico II of Naples:

- Salonia P, Patrimonio, Conoscenza, Tecnologie. Certezze o necessità di ripensamento critico? In Patrimonio culturale: tecniche innovative per il Progetto di Conservazione (edited by Rosa Anna Genovese). Proc. International Conference Patrimonio culturale, Città metropolitana, Paesaggio. Metodologie e tecniche innovative per la Conservazione ed il Restauro; Napoli, 2015; Ed. Giannini

- Salonia P, Homo Digitalis e Patrimonio Storico: quale Futuro per la Memoria? In Patrimonio e città storiche come poli di integrazione sociale e culturale, Sostenibilità e Tecnologie Innovative. Esperienze internazionali di conservazione a confronto (edited by Rosa Anna Genovese). Proc. International Conference; Napoli, 2018; Ed. Giannini.

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Salonia, P. (2022). Role of Digital Technologies, Robotics, and Augmented Realities. In: D'Amico, S., Venuti, V. (eds) Handbook of Cultural Heritage Analysis. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60016-7_50

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