TY - JOUR
T1 - Virtual tours and informational modeling for conservation of cultural heritage sites
AU - Napolitano, Rebecca K.
AU - Scherer, George
AU - Glisic, Branko
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank Wesley Reinhart and Anna Blyth for fruitful discussions. We appreciate the time and assistance that facilities and the office of the architect at Princeton University provided us. The comparison of the VT/IM approach, photogrammetry and laser scanning would not have been possible without the help of S. Shrestha, M. Reina Ortiz, M. Gutland, I. Morris, M. Santana Quintero, J. Erochko, S. Kawan, R.G. Shrestha, P. Awal, S. Suwal, S. Duwal, D.K. Maharjan. Additionally, for that comparison, the authors are grateful to the Department of Archaeology and the Municipality of Bhaktapur, Nepal. This work was supported by the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, the Council on Science and Technology, the Dean's Fund for Innovation, and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Princeton and the National Science and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) through its CREATE and Discovery Grant programs. This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program under Grant No. DGE-1656466. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
Funding Information:
We thank Wesley Reinhart and Anna Blyth for fruitful discussions. We appreciate the time and assistance that facilities and the office of the architect at Princeton University provided us. The comparison of the VT/IM approach, photogrammetry and laser scanning would not have been possible without the help of S. Shrestha, M. Reina Ortiz, M. Gutland, I. Morris, M. Santana Quintero, J. Erochko, S. Kawan, R.G. Shrestha, P. Awal, S. Suwal, S. Duwal, D.K. Maharjan. Additionally, for that comparison, the authors are grateful to the Department of Archaeology and the Municipality of Bhaktapur, Nepal. This work was supported by the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, the Council on Science and Technology, the Dean's Fund for Innovation, and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Princeton and the National Science and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) through its CREATE and Discovery Grant programs. This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program under Grant No. DGE-1656466 . Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 Elsevier Masson SAS
PY - 2018/1
Y1 - 2018/1
N2 - Thorough and organized documentation is crucial for conservation of historic structures. While photogrammetry, laser scanning and building information modeling (BIM) have enhanced 3D documentation in conservation, it is imperative that the method of documentation matches the requirements of the project. Present methods are efficient for certain types of projects. However, for projects that need to depict 3D conservation challenges, but do not have the budget or time for a 3D model, a middle ground does not exist. We present an intermediate solution, a workflow for virtual tour environments (VT) and informational modeling (IM) and we test this workflow on a case study. The VT/IM environment we created contains building plans, previous conservation reports, image galleries, databases about past interventions and short descriptions of the conservation issues at Princeton University. In this paper, we compare conservation reports using 2D plans against the VT/IM environment and we compare the time, cost and data management of VT/IM with methods of 3D documentation.
AB - Thorough and organized documentation is crucial for conservation of historic structures. While photogrammetry, laser scanning and building information modeling (BIM) have enhanced 3D documentation in conservation, it is imperative that the method of documentation matches the requirements of the project. Present methods are efficient for certain types of projects. However, for projects that need to depict 3D conservation challenges, but do not have the budget or time for a 3D model, a middle ground does not exist. We present an intermediate solution, a workflow for virtual tour environments (VT) and informational modeling (IM) and we test this workflow on a case study. The VT/IM environment we created contains building plans, previous conservation reports, image galleries, databases about past interventions and short descriptions of the conservation issues at Princeton University. In this paper, we compare conservation reports using 2D plans against the VT/IM environment and we compare the time, cost and data management of VT/IM with methods of 3D documentation.
KW - Conservation
KW - Documentation
KW - Heritage structures
KW - Informational modeling
KW - Virtual tours
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U2 - 10.1016/j.culher.2017.08.007
DO - 10.1016/j.culher.2017.08.007
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85029445019
SN - 1296-2074
VL - 29
SP - 123
EP - 129
JO - Journal of Cultural Heritage
JF - Journal of Cultural Heritage
ER -