Progress of the Digital Silk Roads project

Ono, Kinji; Yamamoto, Takeo; Kamiuchi, Toshiro; Kitamoto, Asanobu; Andrès, Frédéric; Sato, Sanai; Andaroodi, Elham

doi:10.2201/niipi.2005.1.8

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“…Japan's technological support for the Silk Roads has been also active. In 2001, the National Institute of Informatics of Japan and the Japanese National Commission for UNESCO launched a Digital Silk Roads' initiative for the digitalisation of the Silk Roads-related materials (Ono et al, 2005). After the Buddhas of Bamiyan, known as the Silk Roads heritage in Afghanistan, were destroyed by the Taliban in 2001, Japan both financially and technically contributed to a UNESCO's campaign for the preservation of the Bamiyan site (Toubekis et al, 2009).…”

Section: Japan On the Silk Roadsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The news of a World Heritage inscription is likely to get local, national, and international media attention at least temporarily. For the tourism industry, World Heritage inscription is a great business opportunity (RC and TBR, 2009). It gives incentives to public and private sectors to construct better transportation, accommodations, and other facilities, and to organise cultural and social events for the purpose of entertainment, education, and local revitalisation.…”

Section: World Heritage and The Making Of Memory Infrastructuresmentioning

confidence: 99%

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A Geocultural Power Competition in UNESCO’s Silk Roads Project: China’s Initiatives and the Responses From Japan and South Korea

Nakano

2022

Journal of Current Chinese Affairs

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Since Chinese President Xi Jinping announced the Belt and Road Initiative in 2013, China has increasingly engaged in UNESCO’s Silk Roads project. China’s emphasis on its western routes signals its strategic interest in the reconstruction of its historical connections that matches China’s global networking in Eurasia, the Middle East, and Europe. However, whether China will successfully reformulate the international visions of the past, present, and future for its benefit remains an open question. This article focuses on the responses from Japan and South Korea, both of which hold critical positions as the owners of eastern Silk Roads heritage and the funders of UNESCO’s Silk Roads heritage studies and World Heritage nomination assistance. Extending the conceptual framework of memory infrastructure to the study of heritage politics and diplomacy highlights the competitive aspect of a transnational heritage project in shaping and reshaping historical and contemporary geographical landscapes.

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Section: Japan On the Silk Roadsmentioning

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Section: World Heritage and The Making Of Memory Infrastructuresmentioning

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A Geocultural Power Competition in UNESCO’s Silk Roads Project: China’s Initiatives and the Responses From Japan and South Korea

Nakano

2022

Journal of Current Chinese Affairs

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“…The reconstitution provided by the 3-D cartography map is precise in relative value (comparison of the XYZ coordinate value of one element in the system with the XYZ coordinate value of another element in the system) to within 5 cm and in absolute terms within about a decimetre (for instance, regarding the XYZ of a point perhaps less than 10 cm in X, less than 20 cm in Y and less than 20 cm in Z). If any architectural or natural element is clicked on in the 3-D cartography map, the XYZ values in the UTM 20) system are revealed. The cartography map is developed by Micro Station R tool 21) and imported as an AutoCAD R file with a DWG extension.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In some cases like the tower of the main gate (see Fig. 11), the 20) Universal Transverse Mercator, a special grid map adopted by the National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA). This grid is arranged so that the earth is divided into 60 north-south zones (each is a strip 6 degrees wide in longitude).…”

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3DCG reconstitution and virtual reality of UNESCO world heritage in danger: the Citadel of Bam

Ono¹,

Andaroodi²,

Einifar³

et al. 2008

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This paper provides a report of a research project on virtual revival of the Citadel of Bam, a UNESCO world heritage site in danger that was destroyed in an earthquake in 2003. The simulation of damaged buildings that lies along the primary axes of the citadel and 3-D reconstitution using state-of-the-art 3DCG tools are presented. The key approach to 3-D modeling of the destroyed buildings is complementary usage of heterogeneous data such as 2-D maps, photos, cartography maps, and sketches in collaboration between different teams. As the basic 2-D maps had error, analytic and comparative research is conducted on diverse data resources to create a knowledge-base for the 3DCG restoration of the site. The process of modeling is completed with regard to the complicated and curved mud brick buildings with traditional architectural details. For this purpose proper functions of the tools is selected and in some cases different tools are used. The modeling is done by linking the component with their semantic by a metadata-based layer naming process. The tasks of evaluating the historical, architectural, and technical details of the 3-D buildings are done in parallel with the modeling by a team of CG and architecture experts in order to increase the precision of the 3DCG reconstitution so that it can be used as a reference for the physical restoration. The first trial version of virtual reality demonstration of the main axes of the Citadel of Bam is described. The paper concludes with proposals to enhance the process of simulation and also to open the restricted views of the virtual reconstitution on Internet.

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Ontology-Based Semantic Representation of Silk Road’s Caravanserais: Conceptualization of Multifaceted Links

Andaroodi

Andrès

2018

Semantic Technology

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Progress of the Digital Silk Roads project

Cited by 6 publications

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A Geocultural Power Competition in UNESCO’s Silk Roads Project: China’s Initiatives and the Responses From Japan and South Korea

A Geocultural Power Competition in UNESCO’s Silk Roads Project: China’s Initiatives and the Responses From Japan and South Korea

3DCG reconstitution and virtual reality of UNESCO world heritage in danger: the Citadel of Bam

Ontology-Based Semantic Representation of Silk Road’s Caravanserais: Conceptualization of Multifaceted Links

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