Abstract
CIPA is contributing with its technical knowledge in saving the heritage of Syria by constructing an open access database based on the data that the CIPA members have collected during various projects in Syria over the years before the civil war in the country broke out in 2011. In this way we wish to support the protection and preservation of the environment, sites, monuments, and artefacts and the memory of the cultural region that has been crucial for the human past and the emergence of civilizations. Apart from the countless human atrocities and loss, damage, destruction and looting of the cultural heritage have taken place in a large scale. The CIPA’s initiative is one of the various international projects that have been set up after the conflict started. The Directorate-General of the Antiquities and Museums (DGAM) of Syria as well as UNESCO with its various sub-organizations have been central in facing the challenges during the war. Digital data capture, storage, use and dissemination are in the heart of CIPA’s strategies in recording and documenting cultural heritage, also in Syria. It goes without saying that for the conservation and restoration work the high quality data providing metric information is of utmost importance.
Highlights
CIPA, the joint organization of ICOMOS (International Council on Monuments and Sites under UNESCO) and ISPRS (International Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing) is a scientific commission devoted, as main focus, to the recording and documentation of tangible cultural heritage including cultural landscapes, archaeological, architectural and artistic data
CIPA's current aim is to set up an open access database, a platform for information sharing, focused on sites and monuments to protect and preserve the cultural heritage of Syria
This data is serving as a basis for our initiative that was decided in the CIPA executive board meeting in Riva del Garda, Italy, in 2014
Summary
CIPA, the joint organization of ICOMOS (International Council on Monuments and Sites under UNESCO) and ISPRS (International Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing) is a scientific commission devoted, as main focus, to the recording and documentation of tangible cultural heritage including cultural landscapes, archaeological, architectural and artistic data. It develops and uses the best technical equipment, methods and practices in documenting the heritage. Syria is one of the cradles of human civilization in the Near East covering parts of the Levant and Mesopotamia, being in the continental crossroads of Africa, Asia and Europe. At Abu Hureyra in the Lake Assad area on the Euphrates evidence of the earliest agricultural initiatives from ca. 9000 BC have been discovered (Moore et al, 2000), and on the coastal areas some of the first signs of alphabetical writing system have been traced at the site of UgaritRas Shamra (Schniedewind and Hunt, 2007)
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