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Preserving Tangible and Intangible Cultural Heritage: The Cases of Volterra and Atari

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Digital Interaction and Machine Intelligence (MIDI 2023)

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At first glance, the ruins of the Roman Theatre in the Italian town of Volterra have little in common with cassette tapes containing Atari games. One is certainly considered an important historical landmark, while the consensus on the importance of the other is partial at best. Still, both are remnants of times vastly different from the present and are at risk of oblivion. Unearthed architectural structures are exposed to the elements just as the deteriorating signals stored on magnetic tapes. However, the rate of deterioration is much faster with the magnetic media, as their life expectancy is counted in decades, whereas the Roman Theater, which is already in ruin, measures its lifespan in centuries. Hence, both would benefit from some form of digital preservation and reconstruction. In this panel, we discuss how to sustainably preserve tangible and intangible cultural artifacts for future generations.

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    On December 1, 2021, Demoscene - culture of demo creators was included on the National List of Intangible Cultural Heritage - https://kskpd.pl.

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    Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage: https://ich.unesco.org/en/convention.

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  1. XR Center, Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology, Warsaw, Poland

    Maciej Grzeszczuk, Kinga Skorupska, Barbara Karpowicz, Rafał Masłyk, Pavlo Zinevych, Wiktor Stawski, Stanisław Knapiński & Wiesław Kopeć

  2. The Foundation for the History of Home Computers, Warsaw, Poland

    Maciej Grzeszczuk

  3. IT University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

    Paweł Grabarczyk

  4. University of Detroit Mercy, Detroit, USA

    Władysław Fuchs

  5. Volterra-Detroit Foundation, Royal Oak, USA

    Władysław Fuchs, Paul F. Aubin & Mark E. Dietrick

  6. Kobo Association, Toronto, Canada

    Wiesław Kopeć

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  1. National Research Institute, National Information Processing Institut, Warszaw, Poland

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  2. Polish Academy of Sciences, Systems Research Institute, Warsaw, Poland

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  3. Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology, Warsaw, Poland

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  4. Mechatronics, Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland

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  6. Institute of Applied Computer Science, Faculty of Electrical, Electronic, Computer and Control Engineering, Łódż University of Technology, LODZ, Poland

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  7. Department of Applied Informatics in Management, Faculty of Management and Economics, Gdańsk University of Technology, Gdańsk, Poland

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Grzeszczuk, M. et al. (2024). Preserving Tangible and Intangible Cultural Heritage: The Cases of Volterra and Atari. In: Biele, C., et al. Digital Interaction and Machine Intelligence. MIDI 2023. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 1076. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-66594-3_36

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