Knowra Digital reconstruction of cultural heritage Digital reconstruction of cultural heritage Digital reconstruction of cultural heritage uses computational media to recreate or represent historic places, objects, and practices from surviving evidence. Its models interpret incomplete records and can be revised as evidence changes.
Photogrammetry : A method that derives measurements and three-dimensional models from overlapping photographs. Photographs of surviving structures or artifacts can supply measured geometry for a reconstruction.
Cultural heritage : The inherited tangible and intangible practices, places, and objects valued by a community or society. It defines the range of things digital reconstruction seeks to represent.
Virtual heritage : The use of digital technologies to interpret, preserve, or present cultural heritage. It includes reconstructions alongside other digital ways of presenting heritage.
Digital restoration : The digital repair or enhancement of an existing image, object, or cultural artifact. Restoration modifies a surviving representation; reconstruction proposes forms no longer fully present.
Historical authenticity : The quality of being credible as an expression or representation of a historical object, place, or practice. A visually convincing model can still make unsupported claims about the past.
Terrestrial laser scanning : A surveying method that records three-dimensional surfaces as dense collections of laser-measured points. Point clouds capture the present fabric that reconstructed or restored forms must relate to.
Archaeological record : The material traces and contextual information left by past human activity and recovered through archaeology. Its surviving traces constrain which forms a reconstruction can credibly propose.
Digital preservation : The managed processes that keep digital information accessible and usable over time. A reconstruction needs preservation plans for its files, software dependencies, and documentation.
Historical reenactment : The staged performance of past events, practices, or ways of life. Reenactment embodies interpretation through performance rather than a computational model.
Digital colonialism : Unequal control over digital technologies, data, and infrastructures that reproduces colonial power relations. Digitizing heritage can transfer control of cultural records away from source communities.
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