Abstract
This paper describes an innovative, accessible, and sustainable method for enhancing cultural heritage. Documenting and disseminating the public works heritage have now come of age, digitally speaking, with the adoption of new technologies both to further research on and heighten the esteem attributed to the public works heritage. Nonetheless, academic discourse rarely describes procedures for the 3D digitisation of heritage works comprehensible to non-expert readers with limited resources. Taking that premise as a starting point, with special attention to the determinants of the public works heritage, this article aims to define the general, open-source methodology covering 3D model data capture, information processing and optimisation. The article also discusses model dissemination strategies using free platforms and low-cost tools. The general discussion is illustrated with the case study of Ariza Bridge in Spain. This Renaissance-style structure dates from the second half of the sixteenth century. Despite its listing as a cultural heritage asset, the monument was flooded by the Giribaile reservoir waters in 1998 and is now only wholly visible during droughts. The application, developed with open-source software and implemented with free platforms and low-cost tools, features geo-referencing and is designed to be accessible to non-expert users. The methodology proposed is intended as a suitable instrument for the sustainable study, valorisation and dissemination of the built heritage.
Highlights
Sustainability should be one of the key drivers in any action relating to the cultural heritage
This analysis of the built and in particular the public works heritage, i.e., bridges, roads, canals, dams or ports, with a relevant territorial significance, proposes sustainable methodologies with the use of new technologies based on open-source software, free platforms and low-cost tools
That changed in the 1970s with the onset of the earliest European movements calling for acknowledgement of the historic values of the Industrial Revolution [3] and the appearance of so-called industrial archaeology
Summary
Sustainability should be one of the key drivers in any action relating to the cultural heritage. This analysis of the built and in particular the public works heritage, i.e., bridges, roads, canals, dams or ports, with a relevant territorial significance, proposes sustainable methodologies with the use of new technologies based on open-source software, free platforms and low-cost tools. Unlike architectural heritage, which has been the object of years of research by various schools of thought, public works are poorly delimited and scantly explored and their fundamentals have been insufficiently developed [1]. Until that time significant (necessarily pre-Industrial Revolution) civil works were deemed to form part of the archaeological heritage. In the national plans drafted by Spain’s
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