Acronym: MED Repo Name:Digital Repository of the Architectural and Archaeological Heritage in the Mediterranean Area Domain: Cultural Heritage

 

 

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• APPLICATION DESCRIPTION

The Mediterranean Network for Cultural Heritage aims at creating a distributed digital repository for more than 7,100 items of cultural heritage belonging to about 20 countries around the Mediterranean (besides Italy). The initiative's idea was born from the awareness that peoples of the Mediterranean established an osmosis of knowledge, over the millennia, through cultural and social exchanges which enabled the "Community of the Mediterranean area" that goes well beyond the geographical boundaries. The continuous exchanges carried out in the past are visible on the shores of the Mediterranean, where even today there are architectural and archaeological military, religious, and civil heritages belonging to different traditions but with obvious stylistic and geometric similarities. The initiative has been undertaken by the Digital Architectural Archaeological Cultural Archive (DA2rCA) team of researchers at the Department of Architecture and Urbanism of the University of Catania (Italy) and the first pilot project has been funded by the Sicilian Regional Centre for Design and Restoration of Palermo to determine a risk map of the famous archaeological area of Taormina. The pilot project consisted of two parts: the collection of hundreds of 3D laser scans and thousands of pictures of about 30 monuments located in the Taormina's area and the creation of a digital repository based on grid technology  

• RESEARCH GROUP

Dr. Antonio Calanducci    email : antonio.calanduccict.infn.it    INFN Catania   ITALY

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