scholarly journals Resurrect3D: An Open and Customizable Platform for Visualizing and Analyzing Cultural Heritage Artifacts

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua Romphf

Art and culture, at their best, lie in the act of discovery and exploration. This paper describes Resurrect3D, an open visualization platform for both casual users and domain experts to explore cultural artifacts. To that end, Resurrect3D takes two steps. First, it provides an interactive cultural heritage toolbox, providing not onlycommonly used tools in cultural heritage such as relighting and material editing, but also the ability for users to create an interactive “story”: a saved session with annotations and visualizations others can later replay. Second, Resurrect3D exposes a set of programming interfaces to extend the toolbox. Domain experts can develop custom tools that perform artifact-specific visualization and analysis

Author(s):  
Admink Admink

In the article, the author analyzes the modern model of the phenomenon of a monument of history and culture. The author notes that, as carriers of social information, monuments are considered the most popular phenomena that implement the «memory» function in them. If we pay attention to the equivalents of the word «memory» in other languages, then there is no need for further argumentation for this view. Taking into account that the expression “monument of history and culture” itself has a special paradigm of analysis, there is an initial need to analyze the concept of «memory». The author analyzing the correlation of the concept of «abide» with the concepts of «monument», «monument» reveals the general aspects of this phenomenon. The purpose of the article is to attribute the monument of history and culture to the category of cultural heritage. The initial goal of the science of the study of monuments, which began its formation in the late 80s of the last century in post-Soviet countries, especially in Moscow and Leningrad, was initiated by scientists P. Boyarsky, A. Kulemzin, A. Dyachkov, etc., namely the theoretical the study of the scientific essence of this phenomenon. The author noted that since the second half of the last century, historical and cultural monuments have become the object of research in many sciences, such as philosophy, sociology, history, the study of art and culture, pedagogy, philology, natural science, etc. Key words: abide, historical and cultural monument, cultural heritage, memory. Аналізується сучасна модель феномена пам’ятка історії і культури. Автор зазначає, що як носії соціальної інформації пам’ятки вважаються найбільш популярними явищами, які реалізують у них функцію «пам’яті». Якщо звернути увагу на еквіваленти слова «пам’ять» в інших мовах, то немає необхідності в подальшій аргументації для цього погляду. Беручи до уваги, що саме слово «пам’ятка історії і культури» має особливу парадигму аналізу, існує необхідність аналізу поняття «пам’яті». Автор аналізуючи співвідношення поняття «Абиде» з поняттями «пам’ятник», «монумент» виявляє загальні аспекти цього явище. Мета статті – відносити пам’ятку історії і культури до категорію культурної спадщини. Початкова мета науки про вивчення пам’яток почала своє становлення наприкінці 80-х роках минулого століття в пострадянських країнах, особливо в Москві та Ленінграді з ініціативи вчених П. Боярського, А. Кулезмін, А. Дьячков та ін.. Автор зауважив, що починаючи з другої половини минулого століття пам’ятки історії і культури стали об’єктом досліджень багатьох наук, зокрема таких як філософія, соціологія, історія мистецтва та культури, педагогіка, філологія, природознавство. Ключові слова: Абиде, пам’ятка історії та культури, культурна спадщина, пам’ять.


Author(s):  
K. Lee ◽  
X.W. Xu

The three main methods of digitization can be broadly defined as contact digitization, image-based digitization (photogrammetry), and geometry-based digitization (laser scanning). With the development of the latter two digitization methods, and advanced rendering technologies, virtual displays and museums can now be used widely. (Hung, 2007) Furthermore, recent developments in interactive 3-D computer graphics technology have seen an increased interest in, and use of, 3-D digitization for cultural heritage objects. (Muller-Wittig, Zhu, & Voss, 2007) Technologies for reconstructing or remodeling physical components in 3- D formats are not new in the engineering field, in particular within manufacturing engineering. However, 3-D digitization used for the preservation and archiving of cultural artifacts is relatively recent.


Author(s):  
Dr. Mrs. Tanuja Nafde

It is intangible wealth of knowledge that we possess but being neglected and subdued in the phase of development which is leaned on the western pattern of lifestyle and culture. The overall effect is that the wealth of knowledge is diminishing and is live only at the efforts of the government to revive it. The effluent people of the country feel proud in orienting themselves as alien to the wealth of intangible cultural heritage, affecting further in lowering the attention and focus on the folk art and culture.


Author(s):  
Valeria Cera

In the field of cultural heritage, a significant amount of research has been conducted to allow domain experts to represent semantic data while keeping spatial references. The organization of architectural shapes in significant concepts, in the context of semantic annotation, is carried out in various ways. This chapter analyzes them, highlighting some substantial questions: the semantic ambiguity and the uncertainty. These questions are addressed after a careful reflection on the theoretical basis for a semantic reading of architecture. The chapter proposes some operative solutions: the use of an international thesaurus to resolve linguistic ambiguity; the coding of semantic maps to solve the annotation uncertainty.


2022 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
Nikolaos N. P. Partarakis ◽  
Paraskevi P. D. Doulgeraki ◽  
Effie E. K. Karuzaki ◽  
Ilia I. A. Adami ◽  
Stavroula S. N. Ntoa ◽  
...  

In this article, the Mingei Online Platform is presented as an authoring platform for the representation of social and historic context encompassing a focal topic of interest. The proposed representation is employed in the contextualised presentation of a given topic, through documented narratives that support its presentation to diverse audiences. Using the obtained representation, the documentation and digital preservation of social and historical dimensions of Cultural Heritage are demonstrated. The implementation follows the Human-Centred Design approach and has been conducted under an iterative design and evaluation approach involving both usability and domain experts.


2013 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 273-288 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhao Geng ◽  
Tom Cheesman ◽  
Robert S. Laramee ◽  
Kevin Flanagan ◽  
Stephan Thiel

William Shakespeare is one of the world’s greatest writers. His plays have been translated into every major living language. In some languages, his plays have been retranslated many times. These translations and retranslations have evolved for about 250 years. Studying variations in translations of world cultural heritage texts is of cross-cultural interest for arts and humanities researchers. The variations between retranslations are due to numerous factors, including the differing purposes of translations, genetic relations, cultural and intercultural influences, rivalry between translators and their varying competence. A team of Digital Humanities researchers has collected an experimental corpus of 55 different German retranslations of Shakespeare’s play, Othello. The retranslations date between 1766 and 2010. A sub-corpus of 32 retranslations has been prepared as a digital parallel corpus. We would like to develop methods of exploring patterns in variation between different translations. In this article, we develop an interactive focus + context visualization system to present, analyse and explore variation at the level of user-defined segments. From our visualization, we are able to obtain an overview of the relationships of similarity between parallel segments in different versions. We can uncover clusters and outliers at various scales, and a linked focus view allows us to further explore the textual details behind these findings. The domain experts who are studying this topic evaluate our visualizations, and we report their feedback. Our system helps them better understand the relationships between different German retranslations of Othello and derive some insight.


Author(s):  
Bejide, Oluwatoyin Abiola ◽  
Olaleye, Franklyn Akinola ◽  
Adekoya, Adeola Ojo

This project is based on the influence of television advertising in the promotion of yoruba attires in Ondo State, “a study of NTA Akure”. The research work review related literature and was anchored on persuasive media and cultural conservative theories. It also employed survey design and questionnaire was administered to respondents of the selected three local government areas in Ondo State, but out of the 400 copies of questionnaire administered, 370 was duely attested and recovered for data analysis. The findings revealed that, NTA Akure advertising positively influenced the promotion of Yoruba attires in Ondo State. The study also revealed that, the level of the level of cognizance giving to the promotion of traditional attires especially Aso-Oke by NTA Akure is low. The study concludes that, television advertising has positively influenced the promotion of traditional attires in Yoruba society through assessment of NTA Akure viewers. This research work recommends that, NTA Akure should give much more cognizance to the promotion of the traditional attires through advertisement programme. It also recommends that the Ministry of Art and Culture in Ondo State should see NTA Akure as a medium through which cultural heritage especially traditional attires can be promoted.


Author(s):  
Ariani Ariani

Karo tribe in North Sumatra as one of the ethnic variety in the archipelago has its own art and cultural heritage, one of which is a unique jewelry called padung-padung. This jewelry was used by Karo women in the past as jewelry as well as status symbol. Currently, padung-padung completely no longer used, even many Karo people, especially younger generation, do not know it. The strong influence of foreign culture due to the advancement of technology has become one of the reasons for the increasingly displaced padung-padung. This article is a summary of the result of previous research that aims to re-examine the existence of padung-padung in the past, identify the meaning and role and cause of the loss of padung-padung from the life of Karo tribe. In addition, this study also aims to explore the potential of padung-padung as an alternative aesthetic elements in the development of contemporary product design in order to preserve the diversity of art and culture of Indonesia.Keywords: padung-padung, nine elements of artifact forming, aesthetic element, contemporary product design


2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-51
Author(s):  
Maria Engberg ◽  
Jay David Bolter ◽  
Colin Freeman ◽  
Gunnar Liestøl ◽  
Blair MacIntyre

We report here on an application of reality media (virtual and augmented reality) to digital cultural heritage. The particular challenge we address is: how to combine VR and AR to bridge the gap between the center (the museum housing cultural artifacts) and periphery (the heritage site where the artifacts were found) while at the same time attending to, even enhancing, the aura of both artifacts and sites? Our proposed solution is to implement the cultural heritage technique known as situated simulation (sitsim) in combination with a social virtual environment called Hubs. Our case study is a sitsim of the Acropolis in Athens, which can function on location and remotely and offers real-time conferencing capabilities for its participants. 


Author(s):  
Joshua Cohen

Fodéba Keita was a poet, playwright, musician, choreographer, impresario, anti-colonial activist, and statesman. As the leader of several musical bands, author of poems and essays, founder of the Paris-based performance company Les Ballets Africains, and architect of Guinean cultural policy under President Sékou Touré, Keita pioneered modern African traditions in music, literature, theater, dance, and national arts. He is perhaps best known for having brought African music, dance, masquerade, and oral narratives to the stage, particularly with Les Ballets Africains, which toured internationally during the 1950s before becoming Guinea’s national dance company in 1960. Numerous African countries subsequently adopted the ‘‘ballet’’ form for presenting national cultural heritage. Despite early ties to Lépold Sédar Senghor and other proponents of Negritude, Keita eventually came to reject race-based conceptualizations of African art and culture, writing in 1957 that, ‘‘it seems … tendentious to try systematically to classify the whole of this vast continent by reference to the colour of its inhabitants. The influence of background upon man is far more important than that of the degree of pigmentation of his skin.’’


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