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Transactions on Computational Science XXVI pp 91–110Cite as

A Community-Built Virtual Heritage Collection

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The HeritageTogether project has developed a web platform through which members of the public can upload their own photographs of heritage assets to be processed into 3D models using an automated Structure-from-Motion work flow. The web platform is part of a larger project which aims to capture, create and archive digital heritage assets in conjunction with local communities in Wales, UK, with a focus on megalithic monuments. The 3D models are displayed online using a lightbox style gallery and a virtual museum, while the large amounts of additional data produced are stored in an online archive. Each representation provides a different perspective and context to the data, allowing users to explore the data in a multitude of ways. HeritageTogether is a digital community and community-built archive and museum of heritage data, developed to inspire local communities to learn more about their heritage and to help to preserve it.

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Acknowledgment

We acknowledge the AHRC (UK) AH/L007916/1 for funding “co-production of alternative views of lost heritage of Gwynedd” (http://heritagetogether.org), and members of our research team and digital community for their continued involvement in this research.

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    Helen C. Miles, Frédéric Labrosse & Bernard Tiddeman

  2. School of Computer Science, Bangor University, Bangor, UK

    Andrew T. Wilson & Jonathan C. Roberts

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Miles, H.C., Wilson, A.T., Labrosse, F., Tiddeman, B., Roberts, J.C. (2016). A Community-Built Virtual Heritage Collection. In: Gavrilova, M., Tan, C., Iglesias, A., Shinya, M., Galvez, A., Sourin, A. (eds) Transactions on Computational Science XXVI. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9550. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-49247-5_6

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