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Cox, Ronald C.

doi:10.1680/ehah.2011.164.4.197

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“…To date, most institutions entrusted with safeguarding a country's cultural heritage have limited their intervention and management to drawing up inventories of the most emblematic public works, covering long time spans and a wide spectrum of typologies. The United Kingdom [14], Ireland [15] and Japan [16] are cases in point. Some outstanding, firmly consolidated initiatives are nonetheless in place, such as the American Society of Civil Engineers' Historic Civil Engineering Landmark Programme [17] or the Institution Engineers Australia's Engineering Heritage Recognition Programme [18], which heighten public awareness of and esteem for civil engineering works with commemorative plaques and online databases.…”

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confidence: 99%

Public Works Heritage 3D Model Digitisation, Optimisation and Dissemination with Free and Open-Source Software and Platforms and Low-Cost Tools

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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.

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confidence: 99%