COST stands for Cooperation in Science and Technology and is the longest running network funding organisation in Europe. Within the COST networks, Action D42 is dedicated to the role of the indoor environment on the behaviour of the materials present in archives, libraries and museums. Under storage, use and or exhibition. The indoor environment consists of many components able to deteriorate o...

High-fidelity rendering can be used to investigate Cultural Heritage (CH) sites in a scientifically rigorous manner. However, a high degree of realism in the reconstruction of a CH site can be misleading insofar as it can be seen to imply a high degree of certainty about the displayed scene which is frequently not the case, especially when investigating the past. So far, little effort has gone ...

The analysis and understanding of processes of decay, in the case of historical buildings and monumental architecture, call for an interpretative overview encompassing data which stem from different areas of study but are globally interrelated and constitute essential elements for the purpose of assessing the state of preservation. ARKIS Architecture Recovery Knowledge Information System is an ...

The domain of cultural heritage has benefitted, in the last few years, of an increasing use of IT technologies. A wide range of multimedia technologies have been adopted among museums, archaeological sites and libraries to name but a few. Interactive presentations, multimedia kiosks are nowadays often found at the premises of several cultural heritage sites or institutions (Conti et al., 2006)....

Hypertext are proposed to be adopted in theatre as the "cultural" alternative to the "physical" means of interaction such as ~nultivision or tridimensional effects. A particular class of hypertexts, oriented to multimedia1 shows on the cultural heritage of some peoples, has been designed and experimented in several perfo~mances. Hypertexts enrich and are enriched from the performance of the act...

This paper presents the initial outcomes of a key scoping study undertaken to explore the role of augmented reality and motion detecting technologies in the context of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) for museums related environments. Initial prototypes are in the form of an interactive infrared camera based application for children to engage with an Aboriginal puppet. This scoping study is u...

In recent years an increasing number of state-based heritage protection schemes have asserted ownership over traditional medical knowledge (TMK) through various forms of cultural documentation such as archives, databases, texts, and inventories. Drawing on a close reading of cultural disputes over a single system of TMK—the classical South Asian medical tradition of Ayurveda—the paper traces so...

Bosnia and Herzegovina is very rich with the cultural heritage sites. These historical sites nowadays look quite different from their original appearance, as a lot of time has passed from the moment of their construction. In addition, some of them were seriously damaged or completely destroyed during the recent war. This paper presents our experience in the digitalization of Bosnian cultural he...

Looting and theft of cultural property has been a problem for decades. While there are no exact figures, some agencies suggest it is a criminal industry grossing in the billions annually. Documentation is an essential and key component to finding lost or stolen cultural property and in establishing ownership in a court of law. However, the data on cultural heritage is locked up in data silos ma...

Cultural heritage around the globe suffers from wars, natural disasters and human negligence. The importance of cultural heritage documentation is well recognized and there is an increasing pressure to document our heritage both nationally and internationally. This has alerted international organizations to the need for issuing guidelines describing the standards for documentation. Charters, re...