به کارگیری یک چشم انداز از منظره در میراث فرهنگی دیجیتالی
Technology has always existed to mediate understanding of places and artefacts, from the invention of carving tools to make images of the game being hunted or sacred objects within ancient societies, to the digitisation of places that new technologies have enabled in recent decades. The impetus to interpret the world and using tools to do so is ageold but has new connotations in the current era of Industry 4.0. We are not only digitising, but also connecting places, objects and communities virtually, and augmenting interpretation of heritage places through digital means to better understand and communicate their values, and to reveal values of digitally created artefacts. Digital cultural heritage is a relatively new discipline which seeks to combine the inherently conservative nature of heritage with contemporary digital technologies, which are experimental, evolving and challenging, even disruptive, to the status quo across many disciplines, including heritage. Nevertheless, what may seem an unlikely pairing in fact opens new possibilities for the practice and conceptualisation of heritage. The overarching goal of digital cultural heritage is to improve how the recording, interpretation and storage of heritage information are conducted making it more detailed, complete, sustainable and accessible, and to develop new ways of imagining heritage and its relationship to societies.
The challenge for this new discipline is to imagine a future for heritage, where conservation of not only heritage places but the traditions of the heritage discipline itself which are deeply treasured by many, adapts to new opportunities. This entails development of accessible and useful technologies to meet the needs of heritage practitioners, asset owners, resident- and non-resident heritage communities, and a diverse set of publics. Digital cultural heritage aims to be able to address heritage needs at world and national levels of significance as well to develop techniques and approaches for less officially recognised heritage settings with scant or no funding. Furthermore, it offers possibilities for addressing some of the ongoing open questions within heritage, for example, how to identify and engage broader communities in heritage; how to record and share intangible cultural heritage and the changeable ‘living heritage’ which is developing every day; and how to safeguard and make accessible both born-digital heritage and digital records of tangible heritage places into the future.