Digital Cultural Heritage Conference
The conference proceedings for ITN-DCH Final Conference on Digital Cultural Heritage was recently published online from Springer-Nature Publishing. CIMS researcher and team lead Katie Graham along with CIMS visiting fellow Fabrizio Banfi had the opportunity to present two papers at the conference in May 2017 in Olimje, Slovenia. Both papers explored topics surrounding the Canadian Parliament building rehabilitation project with the perspectives of virtual reality and modelling techniques, respectively. The conference, an international event honouring the ending of the European Union funded Initial Training Network for Digital Cultural Heritage (ITN-DCH) research program, hosted digital heritage scholars and professionals from around the world. The topics presented included technological innovations in data acquisition, metadata, modelling, and visualization including augmented reality and virtual reality.
Team lead Katie Graham presented a paper entitled, The VR Kiosk: Using Virtual Reality to Disseminate the Rehabilitation Project of the Canadian Parliament Buildings, focusing on how the CIMS project, the VR Kiosk, used existing CIMS digital assets to create passive VR experiences for the general public to learn about the rehabilitation project of the parliamentary precinct. Point cloud data, panoramas, the building information model, and historical photographs and drawings are used to create five 360 degree narratives showcasing the importance of the Centre Block building and the upcoming rehabilitation project and show visitors the inaccessible spaces of parliament hill.
Visiting researcher Fabrizio Banfi presented a paper on an advanced modeling technique for generating complex geometries in building information modelling from geospatial data.
Presenting CIMS research in the beautiful countryside of Slovenia and being exposed to international approaches to digital cultural heritage was an amazing opportunity and learning experience. CIMS is very fortunate to have a multidisciplinary and multinational team that provides multiple perspectives and new approaches that are infused into all of our projects. Presenting our methodologies at conferences and connecting with other researchers allows CIMS to continue to learn and expand into new avenues of research. Thank you to ITN-DCH Final Conference for providing the avenue for continued outreach.
A digital version of the conference proceedings can be found here: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-75826-8.
For a direct link to the articles: The VR Kiosk: Using Virtual Reality to Disseminate the Rehabilitation Project of the Canadian Parliament Buildings can be found here: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-75826-8_26.
Building Information Modeling for Cultural Heritage: The Management of Generative Process for Complex Historical Buildings can be found here: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-75826-8_10.
The conference proceedings are free of charge to download until June 25, 2018.