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Cultural Heritage in a Spatial Context – Towards an Integrative, Interoperable, and Participatory Data and Information Management

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3D Research Challenges in Cultural Heritage II

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The authors discuss a concept for a comprehensive three dimensional cultural heritage (CH) information architecture including a time component that takes geographic space as the dominant organizing, presentation and exploration principle. Activities concerning a complex, decentralized information architecture with a cooperative component have only recently gained full relevance since they rely on new achievements. We name three such achievements: fast and user-friendly 3D reconstruction technologies, web-based 3D visualization within standard browsers, and emerging maturity and usage of volunteered geo-content, which is built from vector data, photo collections and 3D models. Achieving more than academic ephemera requires overcoming key problems associated with interoperation, spatial disparities of knowledge, object referencing, data volumes, abstraction, or object lifetime, to name only a few. Reliable and comprehensive solutions will perform well as upcoming business models. Full accounts of the state of the art of all mentioned key issues cannot be given (each of them justifies its own paper). Nor can fully developed solutions or approaches be offered in all cases. At least, a structured compilation of ideas on versatile and practical CH management architecture may provide incentives for future developments.

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Prechtel, N., Münster, S. (2016). Cultural Heritage in a Spatial Context – Towards an Integrative, Interoperable, and Participatory Data and Information Management. In: Münster, S., Pfarr-Harfst, M., Kuroczyński, P., Ioannides, M. (eds) 3D Research Challenges in Cultural Heritage II. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10025. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47647-6_13

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