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3D and 2D Visual Digital Technologies and Cultural Heritage Documentation for Conservation and Monitoring: A Critical Review and Assessment

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During the last few decades, Cultural Heritage (referred to as “CH”) documentation, tools and techniques have undergone a noticeable shift in revealing how and why it is at risk and what can be done to mitigate these risks. This chapter reviews the state-of-the-art 3D and 2D visual digital computer-based technologies for CH documentation techniques and discusses and presents a critical review and investigation from data collection to data sharing for conservation. It discusses the following questions. Does CH documentation indeed contribute to the conservation process, and what is needed to increase its use and practice? How does it define in the context of conservation and monitoring? Who is the CH documentation project team? Is there a need for sharing documentation standards or guidelines? Will digital visual technology completely replace the traditional CH documentation and more labour-intensive methods? Or there is a need to integrate digital visual documentation techniques within the traditional hand survey techniques? Finally, how should we evaluate, deal with and choose digital visual technologies for CH documentation?

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    According to Heritage and Resilience; Issues and Opportunities for Reducing Disaster and [27, p. 6] the Getty Conservation Institute two publications on recording: Recording, Documentation, and Information Management for Conservation of Heritage Places, Guiding Principles (2007) and Recording, Documentation, and Information Management for Conservation of Heritage Places, Illustrated Examples (2007), CH documentation should deal with and respond to the following:

    • We must assess the values and significance of the heritage in question because we care about the creative history of mankind.

    • If we care about our common shared history, there is only one thing that can be done: preserve that history, by guiding the process for progress of conservation.

    • Meanwhile, this can be achieved in two means: by conserving the physical fabric and/or by creating a record to preserve the knowledge if that physical fabric cannot be conserved.

    • Only documentation offers a tool for monitoring and managing CH while creating an essential record, and communicating the character and preserving the cultural significance.

Abbreviations

BIM:

Building information modelling

CH:

Cultural heritage

CS:

Creative suite

GCI:

Getty conservation institute

GIS:

Geographical information system

H-BIM:

Heritage BIM

ICOMOS:

International council on monuments and sites

IT:

Information technology

RG:

Robotic group

TCA:

Tourism and culture authority

TLS:

Terrestrial laser scanner

TVS:

Technical vision system

UAV:

Unmanned aerial vehicle

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Haddad, N. (2022). 3D and 2D Visual Digital Technologies and Cultural Heritage Documentation for Conservation and Monitoring: A Critical Review and Assessment. In: Sergiyenko, O. (eds) Optoelectronic Devices in Robotic Systems. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-09791-1_10

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