Digital Twins in Cultural Heritage

A special issue of Virtual Worlds (ISSN 2813-2084).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2023) | Viewed by 7192

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Interests: semantics for cultural heritage; 3D and VR/AR/XR applications to cultural heritage; digital methods in archaeology

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Dear Colleagues,

Digital twins, i.e., digital replicas of real world objects, are becoming increasingly important in many research fields, from engineering to environmental and biological applications. They appear as a powerful way of organizing related data, a feature that is highly relevant in an increasingly digital society, and a way of testing, monitoring and experimenting the actual behaviour of the real-world modelled entities.

The present Special Issue aims at analysing how this innovative approach can be applied in the area of cultural heritage. Applications of digital twins on cultural heritage have so far concerned how data can be organized; what kind of services may exploit such data organization to support activities in this domain, such as the study, the communication, the exploitation, and the preservation of cultural heritage. Finally, research has addressed simulation issues based on digital twins, both to analyse possible behaviours and to set up automatic responses based on a bidirectional communication between the simulated world and the real one.

In this Special Issue, original research articles and reports of projects—both ongoing and completed—are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following topics as far as research, management, valorisation, and exploitation are concerned:

  • Critical reviews of the current state of the art in the subject, considering opportunities, needs and their fulfilment;
  • The semantics of digital twins for cultural heritage: standards, ontologies, mappings to other data organisations;
  • Applications of digital twins to data spaces in cultural heritage;
  • Digital infrastructures in cultural heritage based on digital twins (existing or forthcoming);
  • Services for Cultural Heritage research, management and valorisation based on digital twins;
  • Simulation of the behaviour of heritage assets based on a digital twin model.

Dr. Franco Niccolucci
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • digital twin
  • digital cultural heritage
  • cultural heritage semantics
  • cultural heritage digital models

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Static Terrestrial Laser Scanning (TLS) for Heritage Building Information Modeling (HBIM): A Systematic Review
by Junshan Liu, Salman Azhar, Danielle Willkens and Botao Li
Virtual Worlds 2023, 2(2), 90-114; https://doi.org/10.3390/virtualworlds2020006 - 14 Apr 2023
Cited by 18 | Viewed by 4730
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Heritage Building Information Modeling (HBIM) is an essential technology for heritage documentation, conservation, and management. It enables people to understand, archive, advertise, and virtually reconstruct their built heritage. Creating highly accurate HBIM models requires the use of several reality capture tools, such as [...] Read more.
Heritage Building Information Modeling (HBIM) is an essential technology for heritage documentation, conservation, and management. It enables people to understand, archive, advertise, and virtually reconstruct their built heritage. Creating highly accurate HBIM models requires the use of several reality capture tools, such as terrestrial laser scanning (TLS), photogrammetry, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), etc. However, the existing literature did not explicitly review the applications and impacts of TLS in implementing HBIM. This paper uses the PRISMA protocol to present a systematic review of TLS utilization in capturing reality data in order to recognize the status of applications of TLS for HBIM and identify the knowledge gaps on the topic. A thorough examination of the 58 selected articles revealed the state-of-the-art practices when utilizing static TLS technology for surveying and processing captured TLS data for developing HBIM models. Moreover, the absence of guidelines for using static TLS surveys for HBIM data acquisition, the lack of robust automated frameworks for producing/transferring 3D geometries and their attributes from TLS data to BIM entities, and the under-utilized application of TLS for long-term monitoring and change detection were identified as gaps in knowledge. The findings of this research provide stakeholders with a good grasp of static TLS for HBIM and therefore lay the foundation for further research, strategies, and scientific solutions for improving the utilization of TLS when documenting heritage structures and developing HBIM. Full article
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