Director of Digital Heritage Research Lab and UNESCO Chair on Digital Cultural Heritage at the Cyprus University of Technology had the honour of being invited to present our work yesterday evening (19th September 2024) in the ongoing series of Open University Lectures jointly organized by the Famagusta Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Cyprus University of Technology.
Dr. Marinos Ioannidis’ in-depth presentation, “The digital recording of cultural heritage: Challenges and risks” analyzed the possibilities and challenges arising from the digital dimension and recording of cultural heritage, the risks which are included as well as the need for holistic digital recording, particularly for the case of Cyprus, given its rich and multifaceted history. Showing the full circle of the digitalisation process from data capture to useable results, Dr Ioannidis presented the Chamber of Famagusta a faithful 3D print of a plate dating from 1050 – 850 BC, which was found in excavations by the Swedish Archaeological Expedition in 1930 in Amathus and exhibited at the Medelhavsmuseet in Sweden and one of the objects digitised in CUTs pioneering initiative with Sweden to digitally capture the largest collection of Cypriot antiquities outside of the island.
The Open University Lectures are held in the context of the renewal of the Cooperation Protocol between CUT and the Famagusta Chamber signed in 2023 to cultivate the relations between the two parties and the joint effort for mutual understanding and promotion of a multi-level cooperation.
