Technology-based development and communication of cultural heritage

Concerns

The research group focuses on the exploration, virtualization, and visualization of tangible and intangible cultural heritage that is (partially) destroyed, threatened with destruction, inaccessible or difficult to access (in private collections, fragile objects/art objects, inaccessible terrain, etc.) or available in digital form. The aim is to make cultural heritage digitally accessible to make it researchable, findable, and accessible. In this way, knowledge can be generated, preserved, and communicated, and digital research data can also be collected and linked sustainably interdisciplinary. Digital technologies and methods offer numerous possibilities for this digital cross-institutional networking of knowledge and can be expanded and disseminated to the general public through citizen science approaches, for example. The CODIP offers ideal conditions, as it brings together different disciplinary perspectives that combine expertise on cultural heritage, digital media, and tools in education and knowledge transfer.

Main topics

Digital research tools and environments
Art and architectural history research
Development and application of digital methods and tools

Research questions

What opportunities for knowledge transfer in the field of cultural heritage can digital methods offer? (e.g. online, museum-based, on-site, location-independent, analog and digital)
Cultural heritage in the context of climate change - What role does digital access/accessibility/education/knowledge transfer play? (Digital recording)
How can cultural heritage that no longer exists/is destroyed/is at risk of destruction be digitally indexed, enriched with information and made accessible?
How can the community be actively involved in researching cultural heritage with the help of digital tools? Citizen science as an instrument for the visualization, research and valorization of supposedly forgotten cultural heritage.
How can buildings and works of art that no longer exist be presented as digital 3D models? To what extent does the viewer's perception play a role?
How can historical digital 3D reconstructions of historical architecture and works of art be preserved for research and the public and made permanently accessible?

Research approaches and methods

The research approaches and methods of the research group are based on:

...diverse disciplines such as (digital) art history, architecture, architectural history and theory, archaeology, heritage studies, history, visual studies, museology
...innovative technologies and their application such as digital/virtual 3D reconstruction methods, virtual/augmented reality, digital online research tools (e.g. 4D browser)
...interdisciplinary approaches to media usage research (user-oriented), participation research (social participation, e.g. in the use and (further) development of digital tools and formats or methods)

Projects

Current projects

4D Community Browser (01.01.2024-31.12.2024), NFDI4Culture

Completed projects

HistStadt4D (2016-2021), BMBF

Selected publications

Messemer, Heike: Digitale 3D-Modelle historischer Architektur. Entwicklung, Potentiale und Analyse eines neuen Bildmediums aus kunsthistorischer Perspektive, Heidelberg 2020 (= Computing in Art and Architecture, Bd. 3). (Dissertation) https://doi.org/10.11588/arthistoricum.516

Niebling, Florian, Sander Münster und Heike Messemer (Hrsg.): Research and Education in Urban History in the Age of Digital Libraries (=Communications in Computer and Information Science, Bd. 1501).
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-93186-5

Münster, Sander, Ferdinand Maiwald, Jonas Bruschke, Cindy Kröber, Rebekka Dietz, Heike Messemer u. Florian Niebling: Where are we now on the Road to 4D Urban History Research and Discovery? ISPRS Ann. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci., VIII-M-1-2021, 2021, S. 109-116. https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-annals-VIII-M-1-2021-109-2021

Perera, Walpola Layantha, Heike Messemer, Christiane Clados u. Matthias Heinz: Processing History. Potentials of Transformers for 3D Reconstruction of Historical Objects with the help of Artificial Intelligence, in: Köhler, Thomas, Schoop, Eric, Kahnwald, Nina u. Sonntag, Ralph (Hrsg.): Gemeinschaft in Neuen Medien. Digitale Partizipation in hybriden Realitäten und Gemeinschaften. 24. Workshop GeNeMe'21, Dresden, 07.-08.10.2021, Dresden 2021, S. 191-201. https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa2-780336

Bruschke, Jonas, Cindy Kröber u. Heike Messemer: Insights into Collections of Spatialized Historical Photographs. The Urban History 4D Project, in: Börner, Wolfgang, S. Uhlirz u. I. Herzog (Hrsg.): Artificial Intelligence. New Pathways towards Cultural Heritage. Proceedings of the 25th CHNT – Conference on Cultural Heritage and New Technologies, 04.-06.11.2020, 2020. https://archiv.chnt.at/wp-content/uploads/Insights-into-Collections-of-Spatialized-Historical-Photographs.pdf

Dewitz, Leyla, Cindy Kröber, Heike Messemer, Ferdinand Maiwald, Sander Münster, Jonas Bruschke u. Florian Niebling: Historical Photos and Visualizations: Potential for Research, in: Gonzalez-Aguilera, D., F. Remondino, I. Toschi, P. Rodriguez-Gonzalvez u. E. Stathopoulou (Hrsg.): 27th CIPA International Symposium “Documenting the past for a better future”, Ávila 2019 (= Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci., Bd. XLII-2W15), S. 405-412. https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLII-2-W15-405-2019

Results and references

Development of the 4D browser as part of the HistStadt4D junior research group: https://4dbrowser.urbanhistory4d.org

UHDL-Workshop - CIPA Workshop on Research and Education in Urban History in the Age of Digital Libraries: organized by the junior research group HistStadt4D in Dresden, 10-11.10.2019, Hygiene Museum Dresden, http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/servlet/event.showcfp?eventid=88984

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