Ricerc@Sapienza

Cultural heritage (CH) can be understood as a complexity of activities in a very wide range of disciplines
whose aim is to identify, evaluate, and preserve past achievements for the benefit of next generation in
having memory of the past and inspiration from it for future enhancements and appreciation of current
results. Many are thus the disciplines that concurrently can help in identifying, comprehending, and
transmitting to future generations CH values as well as in stimulating the inspiration of present and future
architects, archaeologists, designers, engineers and all that people who work in this area.
Digital technologies have produced important methodological changes in those disciplines devoted
to the documentation, study, analysis, preservation, conservation and even management of CH. Main
topics are: new technologies of non-contact survey; Reconstruction of 2D and 3D models; architectural/
archaeological representation in all its forms; Theory and Methods for historical analysis; history of
architecture and of built artefacts; Theory and Methods of built artefacts conservation and restoration;
building retrofitting and enhancement.
The focus of the publication is on digital technologies and data processing in CH. Then the focus will
be on a wide range of topics like 2D, 3D data capture methodologies and data processing, 3D GIS in
CH, virtual reality in architecture, archaeology and historical research, standards, metadata, ontologies
and semantic processing in CH. But also data management, archiving and presentation of CH content,
innovative topics related to the current and future implementation, use, development and exploitation
of the innovative technologies, digital data acquisition technologies and data processing in CH, on-site
and remotely sensed data collection. An important aspect concerns the reproduction techniques and
rapid prototyping in CH, innovative graphics applications and techniques, digital libraries and archives
in CH, tools for education, diagnoses and monitoring for the preventive conservation and maintenance
of CH, status, and state of conservation of existing buildings, status and state of conservation of structure
of existing buildings, structural reinforcement of existing buildings, restoration theories, history and
theory of architectural conservation, interpretation of the mechanical behavior of existing buildings,
mechanical behavior of existing materials.