Digitization and Preservation of Cultural Heritage Products

Abstract

Cultural heritage encompasses various aspects of a nation's history. Cultural heritage artifacts are considered as priceless items that need special care. Since the wide adoption of new digital technologies, documenting and storing cultural heritage assets became more affordable and reliable. These records are then used in several applications. Researchers saw the opportunity to use digital heritage recordings for long-term preservation. They are considering cultural heritage artifacts as products, and the history behind them as a product lifecycle. In this paper, we present the research progress in cultural heritage digital processing and preservation, highlighting the most impactful advances. Additionally, we present the CEPROQHA project which is a new approach aiming at achieving cost-effective acquisition and digital preservation for cultural heritage artifacts in Qatar.

Enhancing museums' attractiveness through digitization: An investigation of Italian medium and large‐sized museums and cultural institutions

“…Embracing an inward‐oriented perspective, digitization enacts a more efficient management of institutional and organizational activities, which is primarily achieved through the dematerialization of archives and collections to ensure the preservation and integrity of the cultural heritage (García‐López et al, 2021). Sticking to a socio‐technical view (Turner, 2017), digitization prompts museums to reframe the relationships between people and objects, contextualizing activities related to the protection and the promotion of the cultural heritage in the cyber‐physical domain (Belhi et al, 2017; Esposito & Ricci, 2021). Besides, adopting an outward‐oriented view, digitization is intended to expand the cultural institutions' inter‐organizational relationships, engaging stakeholders in a co‐creating dialog, which aims at cultural heritage dissemination (Arrigoni & Galani, 2021).…”

Machine Learning and Digital Heritage: The CEPROQHA Project Perspective

“…Most of the 3D acquisition techniques fall into two main categories: laser scanning and photogrammetry. For cultural heritage, several works [5][6][7][8][9] have addressed this challenge. Of these techniques, laser scanning seems to attract more wealthy institutions that aim at achieving the best possible quality.…”

Investigating 3D holoscopic visual content upsampling using super-resolution for cultural heritage digitization

“…Unfortunately, these assets face lots of risks due to their degradation or due to other external factors. Nowadays, digital preservation attracts a lot of attention especially due to the proven performance of IT infrastructures and the new high-quality ways of content consumption [8,9] . This means that cultural collections will be accessible to larger audiences from anywhere in the world.…”