Abstract
Abstract. This paper documents the formulation of an international, interdisciplinary study, on a concerted European level, to prepare an innovative, reliable, independent and global knowledge base facilitating the use of today’s and future optical measuring techniques for the documentation of cultural heritage. Cultural heritage professionals, color engineers and scientists share similar goals for the documentation, curation, long-term preservation and representation of cultural heritage artifacts. Their focus is on accuracy in the digital capture and remediation of artefacts through a range of temporal, spatial and technical constraints. A shared vocabulary to interrogate these shared concerns will transform mutual understanding and facilitate an agreed movement forward in cultural heritage documentation here proposed in the work of the COST Action Color and Space in Cultural Heritage (COSCH). The goal is a model that captures the shared concerns of professionals for a standards-based solution with an organic Linked Data model. The knowledge representation proposed here invokes a GUI interface for non-expert users of capture technologies, facilitates, and formulates their engagement with key questions for the field.
Highlights
This paper proposes a knowledge based solution to bridge the gap between the CH community and computer scientists and engineers by fostering information exchange and providing guidelines for using optical technologies for CH documentation
The paper introduces the Color and Space in Cultural Heritage (COSCH) Knowledge Representation (COSCHKR) as an optimal framework to overcome those limitations of projects that are usually object-dependent and application-driven, leading to unshared and non-standardized results - providing an interdisciplinary framework for scientists and technicians and the heritage specialists to facilitate the exchange of interests, needs, capabilities, constraints, limits and perspectives
We present initial developments towards establishing a structured knowledge base to allow linking of the complex and different worlds of technologies for non-contact optical object documentation on one side, and of applications and interests of users related to cultural heritage objects on the other side
Summary
The importance of effective protection and preservation of CH is internationally understood in terms of society, history, identity and memory amongst other concerns - within this context it is paramount to scan, document, analyze, understand, model, virtually reconstruct and visualize/publish CH objects, in particular to accurately record artefacts at both micro and nano-scales – to include material properties such as form, color and texture – for today’s use and future generations; make the resulting e-documentation accessible globally to specialists and the general public; monitor the condition of objects for enhanced preventive conservation; enhance the knowledge base for art-historical analysis and other scholarly activities; support routine applications with specialist knowhow and state-of-the-art equipment. Despite a general understanding of spatial resolution and accuracy of such documentation, and its potential, within the CH community, there is limited awareness that standards could be improved by direct cooperation within the technical sector. It is, difficult for CH professionals to use these technologies efficiently or even to define requirements. The paper introduces the COSCH Knowledge Representation (COSCHKR) as an optimal framework to overcome those limitations of projects that are usually object-dependent and application-driven, leading to unshared and non-standardized results - providing an interdisciplinary framework for scientists and technicians (developers of measurement systems, software and technologies for a wide range of applications, as well as material scientists, physicists and chemists) and the heritage specialists (art historians, conservators, archaeologists, curators and others) to facilitate the exchange of interests, needs, capabilities, constraints, limits and perspectives
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