Editors:
- Enlightens readers into the ways in which technologies are developing and how they are used within heritage, and where future developments will focus
- Presents cutting edge research on applied digital technologies to heritage, with sites, landscapes and buildings from across Europe, North and Central America, amongst others
- Broadens your understanding of new ways of approaching heritage, from the integration of historical textual data within landscape studies, to the use of agent-based modelling for the simulation of the past
- Provides case studies that extend across the field of heritage, including data capture, interpretation conservation, management and re-presentation across different platforms from mobile devices to multi-user multi-touch surfaces
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Springer Series on Cultural Computing (SSCC)
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Material World
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What Surrounds Us, Shapes Us
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The World’s a Stage
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Onwards and Upwards
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About this book
Heritage is everywhere, and an understanding of our past is increasingly critical to the understanding of our contemporary cultural context and place in global society. Visual Heritage in the Digital Age presents the state-of-the-art in the application of digital technologies to heritage studies, with the chapters collectively demonstrating the ways in which current developments are liberating the study, conservation and management of the past. Digital approaches to heritage have developed significantly over recent decades in terms of both the quantity and range of applications. However, rather than merely improving and enriching the ways in which we understand and engage with the past, this technology is enabling us to do this in entirely new ways.
The chapters contained within this volume present a broad range of technologies for capturing data (such as high-definition laser scanning survey and geophysical survey), modelling (including GIS, data fusion, agent-based modelling), and engaging with heritage through novel digital interfaces (mobile technologies and the use of multi-touch interfaces in public spaces). The case studies presented include sites, landscapes and buildings from across Europe, North and Central America, and collections relating to the ancient civilisations of the Middle East and North Africa. The chronological span is immense, extending from the end of the last ice age through to the twentieth century.
These case studies reveal new ways of approaching heritage using digital tools, whether from the perspective of interrogating historical textual data, or through the applications of complexity theory and the modelling of agents and behaviours. Beyond the data itself, Visual Heritage in the Digital Age also presents fresh ways of thinking about digital heritage. It explores more theoretical perspectives concerning the role of digital data and the challenges that are presented in terms of its management and preservation.
Editors and Affiliations
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IBM Visual and Spatial Technology Centre | Digital Humanities Hub, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, United Kingdom
Eugene Ch'ng, Vincent Gaffney, Henry Chapman
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Visual Heritage in the Digital Age
Editors: Eugene Ch'ng, Vincent Gaffney, Henry Chapman
Series Title: Springer Series on Cultural Computing
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-5535-5
Publisher: Springer London
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag London 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4471-5534-8Published: 17 December 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4471-7082-2Published: 27 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4471-5535-5Published: 04 December 2013
Series ISSN: 2195-9056
Series E-ISSN: 2195-9064
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIX, 361
Number of Illustrations: 45 b/w illustrations, 106 illustrations in colour
Topics: User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction, Archaeology, Cultural Heritage, Simulation and Modeling