Protection and preservation of our cultural and literary historical and documentary heritage are particularly relevant today. The paper presents methods for creating digital resources of historical artifacts related to the Balkan war. Special attention is paid to the process of 3D scanning of objects. The methodology will be used in building an electronic archive and Virtual Museum.

EN) The paper documents the creation in 2004 of real-world stereographic panoramas at the UNESCO world heritage listed site Angkor, in Cambodia. The project builds upon the history of the panorama as a medium of virtual travel that has existed from the eighteenth century. The significance of the current project is the way in which real-world (as opposed to computer generated) stereographic pano...

Museums and archives collect and store documentation of processes of intangible cultural heritage (ICH), such as craftsmanship skills, acts, and events recorded in videos, audio tapes, manuscripts, photos, and transcriptions. Such recordings are typically catalogued in an object-centric way as documents, using schemas such as Dublin Core. Also in event-centric models the focus has been on tangi...

After three decades of “technology push”, Human Factors design techniques and processes are finally being applied to applications of Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality (VR, AR) in such sectors as defence, engineering, transportation, medicine and scientific visualisation. However, the importance of Human Factors, or human-centred design, is yet to impact significantly on the Virtual Heritage...

Digital and virtual heritage is often associated with the recreation of lost artefacts and architecture; however, we can also investigate works that were not completed, using digital tools and techniques. Here we explore physical evidence of a fourteenthcentury Gothic vault located in the north transept of St Mary’s church in Nantwich, Cheshire, using existing springer stones that are built int...

Virtual Heritage Caches are a new instrument for disseminating information about heritage sites in a non formal way. Educational concepts for world heritage sites and cultural heritage already exist in museums (exhibition) and on site (signage, smartphone apps). Often they are closed systems with little intersection and interaction between them. Heritage Caches aim to combine their target audie...

This paper describes a novel approach to satisfy the needs of museum’s website visitors with a unique experience that cannot be reproduced in the museum itself. We aim at providing a continuous and lasting experience, without the emphasis of a single, final result a process we call digital strolling. The view supports this process by displaying results as a path on which the user strolls. To en...

Big data has huge commercial value and potential. Under the background of big data, a heritage site is faced with a number of questions and challenges such as, how to accelerate industrial innovation, benign competition and the creation of new business value. Based on the analysis of service data from the national archaeological site and park, Yuan Ming Yuan, this paper investigates the common ...