Digital Past Conference 2021
Description of the event
This is the most important event of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales in UK named “Digital Past 2021”. The conference was a four-day long annual event which highlighted novel digital technologies in data acquisition, interpretation and dissemination of UK and beyond.
The Commission of the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales invited the Mnemosyne project to organise a workshop focusing on the project’s research agenda which was named “How complex is 3D digitization in Cultural Heritage”. The event was planned to be on the 1st day of the conference, but due to the high interest, and high number of registrations the organizing committee proposed to have our workshop in two different time periods during the conference. Therefore, the online event was finally scheduled on the second and last day of the conference with in total two hundred and thirty participants from around the world.
Involvement and mission
The workshop aimed to address the issue of “complexity†in the field of 3D digitization, by focusing on various challenges in the Cultural Heritage fields and discussed key questions like: a) Which are the challenges of 3D surveying in CH? b) In which ways are the entanglements defining the final complexity of the 3D acquisition process? c) Which are the missing standards for 3D in CH modelling and the long-term preservation of 3D models.
Impact
A large number of participants (around 260 people) registered to attend the workshop. Due to the limits of the online platform used for the teleconferencing each workshop had a maximum capacity of 120 online participants.