IMC 2024: Sessions
Session 711: Crisis, Accessibility, and Preservation: Digitising Medieval Heritage in a Changing World
Tuesday 2 July 2024, 14:15-15:45
| Sponsor: | BLAGO Fund |
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| Organisers: | Ivana Lemcool, BLAGO Fund / National Museum of Serbia Ida Sinkevic, Williams Center for Arts, Lafayette College, Pennsylvania |
| Moderator/Chair: | Ivana Lemcool, BLAGO Fund / National Museum of Serbia |
| Paper 711-a | Byzantium in VR: Expanding Access to Cultural Heritage (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - Religious, Art History - General, Education and Technology |
| Paper 711-b | Digital Tools in Preservation and the Presentation of Medieval Heritage: The Work of the Department of Documentation of the National Museum of Serbia (Language: English) Index terms: Archives and Sources, Computing in Medieval Studies and Technology |
| Paper 711-c | On the Importance of Digitising Old Photographic Documentation of Medieval Monuments: A Case Study on the Architecture and Frescoes of the Gradac Monastery (Language: English) Index terms: Archives and Sources, Art History - General, Computing in Medieval Studies and Technology |
| Abstract | The current global crises, such as climate change, political instability, armed conflicts, and social unrest, are not only harmful to our present and future, but they also pose a threat to the preservation of historical monuments and artifacts. For many of them, particularly those from the Middle Ages, digital documenting and archiving have been matters of urgency and utmost necessity and, in some cases, their only means of preservation. Various digital tools have enabled us to envision, reconstruct, and virtually experience spaces and objects that have been destroyed or that are less accessible to a wider audience. In numerous instances, digitization has provided researchers with invaluable data they could not have been able to obtain otherwise. Also, it offered a risk-free, time-saving, and cost-efficient alternative to travelling and visiting sites and collections in person, benefiting both the scholarly community and the general public. The papers in this session will address present practices and past achievements in the field of digital humanities, which demonstrate developments conducive to the accessibility, popularization, and conservation of medieval cultural heritage |