Crowdsourcing for 3D cultural heritage for George Town UNESCO World Heritage Site

The uniqueness of George Town as a complex living web of social, cultural and economic activities embedded within built environments presents a challenge for 3D digital documentation, and this even for organisations with large financial resources. This challenge presents a barrier when digital cultu...

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Main Author: Ch'ng, Eugene
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: 2018
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/56124/
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description The uniqueness of George Town as a complex living web of social, cultural and economic activities embedded within built environments presents a challenge for 3D digital documentation, and this even for organisations with large financial resources. This challenge presents a barrier when digital cultural products are needed to enhance site documentation and conservation, facilitate accessibility for academic studies and research, and fuel the creative economy, and many more benefits which usually accompany digitalisation activities globally. Whilst digital transformation may appear daunting, present technologies are sufficiently developed for quick adoption and use by both individuals and small organisations. This paper gave argument to the use of 3D technologies in combination with crowdsourcing mechanisms suited for the World Heritage Site and the benefits that should follow if George Town’s cultural heritage is digitised and subsequently digitalised.
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spelling nottingham-561242019-02-18T11:10:14Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/56124/ Crowdsourcing for 3D cultural heritage for George Town UNESCO World Heritage Site Ch'ng, Eugene The uniqueness of George Town as a complex living web of social, cultural and economic activities embedded within built environments presents a challenge for 3D digital documentation, and this even for organisations with large financial resources. This challenge presents a barrier when digital cultural products are needed to enhance site documentation and conservation, facilitate accessibility for academic studies and research, and fuel the creative economy, and many more benefits which usually accompany digitalisation activities globally. Whilst digital transformation may appear daunting, present technologies are sufficiently developed for quick adoption and use by both individuals and small organisations. This paper gave argument to the use of 3D technologies in combination with crowdsourcing mechanisms suited for the World Heritage Site and the benefits that should follow if George Town’s cultural heritage is digitised and subsequently digitalised. 2018-10-04 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/56124/1/Crowdsourcing%20for%203D%20Cultural%20Heritage%20for%20George%20Town%20UNESCO%20World%20Heritage%20Site%2C%20International%20Conference%20on%20Managing%20Urban%20Cultural%20Heritage.pdf Ch'ng, Eugene (2018) Crowdsourcing for 3D cultural heritage for George Town UNESCO World Heritage Site. In: International Conference on Managing Urban Cultural Heritage 2018, 1-4 October 2018, Penang, Malaysia. digital transformation; UNESCO World Heritage Site; photogrammetry; 3D assets; crowdsourcing
spellingShingle digital transformation; UNESCO World Heritage Site; photogrammetry; 3D assets; crowdsourcing
Ch'ng, Eugene
Crowdsourcing for 3D cultural heritage for George Town UNESCO World Heritage Site
title Crowdsourcing for 3D cultural heritage for George Town UNESCO World Heritage Site
title_full Crowdsourcing for 3D cultural heritage for George Town UNESCO World Heritage Site
title_fullStr Crowdsourcing for 3D cultural heritage for George Town UNESCO World Heritage Site
title_full_unstemmed Crowdsourcing for 3D cultural heritage for George Town UNESCO World Heritage Site
title_short Crowdsourcing for 3D cultural heritage for George Town UNESCO World Heritage Site
title_sort crowdsourcing for 3d cultural heritage for george town unesco world heritage site
topic digital transformation; UNESCO World Heritage Site; photogrammetry; 3D assets; crowdsourcing
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/56124/