As we enter the Christmas period here at the UNESCO Chair on Digital Cultural Heritage at the Cyprus University of Technology we would like to take the opportunity to wish you all Καλά Χριστούγεννα και Ευτυχισμένο το Νέο Έτος – Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from the researchers at the Digital Cultural Heritage Lab. However you are spending the vacations we wish you peace, health and hope.
We are also delighted to announce that the new publication 3D Research Challenges in Cultural Heritage V Paradata: Metadata and Data in Digitisation is now available under open access through Springer just in time for the holiday reading lists.
3D Research Challenges in Cultural Heritage V: Paradata, Metadata and Data in Digitisation is a collection of papers arising from the two workshops held in April and June 2024 on Defining Paradata, Metadata & Data for Documenting 2D/3D Digital Cultural Heritage. This volume contains sixteen papers discussing the topic ranging from the theoretical to practical implications and implementations of Paradata and Metadata in the digitisation of cultural heritage.
The list of authors is remarkable and demonstrates the resurgence of interest in the subject as we enter a new era for Digital Cultural Heritage beyond the Digital Twin paradigm both in Europe and Internationally. The list of corresponding authors includes
- Anthony Cassar – Heritage Malta, MT
- Antoine Isaac – Europeana Foundation, NL
- Drew Baker – Cyprus University of Technology, CY
- Erik Champion – University of South Australia, AU
- Igor Piotr Bajena – University of Bologna, IT
- Isto Huvila – Uppsala University, SE
- Jean-Baptiste Barreau – Universite Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne, FR
- Luisa Ammirati – United Nations Satellite Centre (UNOSAT), CH
- Marc Grellert – TU Darmstadt, DE
- Marin Depraetere – Museum für Naturkunde, DE
- Marinos Ioannides – Cyprus University of Technology, CY
- Mark Mudge – Cultural Heritage Imaging, US
- Matthieu Quantin – Laboratory of Digital Sciences (LS2N), FR
- Maurice Murphy – Virtual Lab Dublin, IE
- Pedro Luengo – Universidad de Sevilla, ES
- Raffaella Brumana – Politecnico di Milano, IT
This publication not only reflects the current state of the art in Paradata and Metadata for digital cultural heritage but will set the tone for future scholarship in the subject as we define the relationship between the analogue and digital world.
We would like to thank all contribution authors for their submissions and the staff at Springer for their efforts in bringing this volume to publication before the end of the year ahead of schedule.
3D Research Challenges in Cultural Heritage V Paradata: Metadata and Data in Digitisation is available now for download free of charge from Springer
