Preparing for the future: mitigating disasters and building resilience in the cultural heritage sector

MacAlister, Fiona

doi:10.1080/19455224.2015.1068201

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“…The archaeometry updated by its new technologies may well apply a resilient strategy to cultural heritage, in the domain of fundamental and applied research, education and training, and economy. At any rate the implementation of all these should take into consideration the pertaining uncertainties from natural disasters, terrorist activities, and climatic changes [123].…”

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Archaeometry’s Role in Cultural Heritage Sustainability and Development

Liritzis

Korka

2019

Sustainability

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The interdisciplinary field of archaeometry covers a wide range of subject categories and disciplines in relation to science and humanities. It is a well-established academic field of study and accredited part of higher education. Since its inception, the nomenclature designation of archaeometry signifies the appropriate methodology applied to archaeological materials and questions emerging from this field, regarding monuments, artifacts, and the reconstruction and management of landscape bearing cultural assets. The measurements of tangible culture denote significant information, such as chronology, authenticity, technology, characterization, provenance, discovering buried antiquities, ancient-day life activities, and three-dimensional (3D) reconstructions and modelling; furthermore, proxy data collected from environmental dynamic non-liner perturbations, which link local ecosystems with dwellings, are gathered by academia to study the past. The traditional rooting signifies the cultural legacies of people, which define the human desire and the confidence of memory and future trends. Beyond the mere study of the past, archaeometry’s role increasingly proves affinity to prosperity, if properly managed. The major archaeometrical contributions in cultural heritage and archaeology in general are reviewed herein, and we present the policies that could develop archaeometrical data into a sustainable stage of local, regional, and national economic development. Τhe United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) conventions for the documentation and protection of cultural heritage via new technologies and archaeometry are reviewed and connected to development strategies and sustainable development goals.

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Archaeometry’s Role in Cultural Heritage Sustainability and Development

Liritzis

Korka

2019

Sustainability

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“…For instance, the area around Bodie (1859-1942), an iconic Gold Rush-era boom town located few miles west of the California and Nevada border, has been a hotbed of seismological activity and earthquake swarms for thousands of years [17][18][19]. This grim scenario exacerbates a sense of urgency in protecting California cultural heritage and brings to the fore the need for the development of new preservation methods and increased cooperation between preservationists, resource managers, scholars, and local communities to increase their sustainability and resilience [20][21][22][23][24].…”

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Building Cultural Heritage Resilience through Remote Sensing: An Integrated Approach Using Multi-Temporal Site Monitoring, Datafication, and Web-GL Visualization

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In the American West, wildfires and earthquakes are increasingly threatening the archaeological, historical, and tribal resources that define the collective identity and connection with the past for millions of Americans. The loss of said resources diminishes societal understanding of the role cultural heritage plays in shaping our present and future. This paper examines the viability of employing stationary and SLAM-based terrestrial laser scanning, close-range photogrammetry, automated surface change detection, GIS, and WebGL visualization techniques to enhance the preservation of cultural resources in California. Our datafication approach combines multi-temporal remote sensing monitoring of historic features with legacy data and collaborative visualization to document and evaluate how environmental threats affect built heritage. We tested our methodology in response to recent environmental threats from wildfire and earthquakes at Bodie, an iconic Gold Rush-era boom town located on the California and Nevada border. Our multi-scale results show that the proposed approach effectively integrates highly accurate 3D snapshots of Bodie’s historic buildings before/after disturbance, or post-restoration, with surface change detection and online collaborative visualization of 3D geospatial data to monitor and preserve important cultural resources at the site. This study concludes that the proposed workflow enhances the monitoring of at-risk California’s cultural heritage and makes a call to action to employ remote sensing as a pathway to advanced planning.

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“…but at the same time of guaranteeing a framework of general consistency, one that can be reproduced and capitalized on, so as to optimize the large quantity of existing data. Aware of Italy's role in urban conservation on a global scale and the role that knowledge of traditional techniques, materials and methods can play in both the reconstruction and resilient construction of historic centres (as has been highlighted by the critical analysis of the international literature cherishing replicable methods, protocols and tools that can be easily used to other sites in Italy and abroad, offering an added international value to the project [14][15][16][17][18][19]. -Outmoded sectorality and methodologies for assessing vulnerability and hazard.…”

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SiSMI Project–Technologies for the Improvement of Safety and the Reconstruction of Historic Centres in the Seismic Area of Central Italy

2020

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The project SISMI-Tecnologie per il miglioramento della Sicurezza e la ricostruzione dei centri Storici in area sisMIca (technologies for the improvement of safety and the reconstruction of historic centres in the seismic area)–aims to provide tools and methods for risk reduction and seismic improvement of Lazio’s cultural assets and centres, causing research, intervention policies, and planning to interact in order to support reconstruction choices and foster dialogue with local parties and enterprises. One of the SISMI project’s main elements of innovation consists of preparing modes of integration of knowledge and assessments relating to the various components of a territory’s vulnerability and seismic hazard that can be used in other seismic territories. SISMI project, tested in seismic territories of Central Italy, is a methodology of integrated, multidimensional, and transdisciplinary investigation, in the conviction that the safety of the territory and of historic and cultural assets is the result of a dynamic risk reduction process capable of guaranteeing and promoting the local communities’ resilience, in which both physical/structural and sociocultural elements collaborate.

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Preparing for the future: mitigating disasters and building resilience in the cultural heritage sector

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Archaeometry’s Role in Cultural Heritage Sustainability and Development

Archaeometry’s Role in Cultural Heritage Sustainability and Development

Building Cultural Heritage Resilience through Remote Sensing: An Integrated Approach Using Multi-Temporal Site Monitoring, Datafication, and Web-GL Visualization

SiSMI Project–Technologies for the Improvement of Safety and the Reconstruction of Historic Centres in the Seismic Area of Central Italy

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