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8 September 2025

This article presents an analysis of the architectural integration of two new buildings implemented on the Gdańsk University of Technology campus (Poland) as a case study of combining contemporary technologies with cultural continuity. The build...

(This article belongs to the Section Architectural Design, Urban Science, and Real Estate)
  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
9,930 Views
18 Pages

Enriching Cultural Heritage through the Integration of Art and Digital Technologies

  • Polyxeni Mantzou,
  • Xenofon Bitsikas and
  • Anastasios Floros

26 October 2023

Digital technologies are reshaping traditional static urban typologies, as the museum, urging a rethinking of how Cultural Heritage (CH) is experienced. The work presents the PALIMPSEST Project, an Interreg V-A Greece–Italy funded project, whic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
8,706 Views
38 Pages

Usability is a principal aspect of the system development process to improve and augment system facilities and meet users’ needs and necessities in all domains. It is no exception for cultural heritage. Usability problems of the interactive tec...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Feature Papers of MTI in 2021)
  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
7,126 Views
32 Pages

3 January 2025

Integrating cultural heritage education into digital platforms is crucial for advancing the knowledge-based economy, as it introduces innovative methods for information dissemination and economic growth stimulation. This study investigates the synerg...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Engineering Education and Sustainable Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
80 Citations
12,131 Views
19 Pages

3 November 2019

The importance of preserving intangible cultural heritage (ICH) for sustainable development has been widely acknowledged by the international society. Various forms of cooperation have taken place to prevent deterioration and destruction due to its i...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from 2nd Eurasian Conference on Educational Innovation 2019)
  • Review
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,259 Views
30 Pages

25 January 2025

This paper presents a comprehensive scoping review of the application of 3D digital technologies in the documentation, conservation, and management of historic gardens and related cultural heritage. By analyzing a curated selection of literature, thi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,127 Views
24 Pages

24 December 2025

Digital preservation of traditional villages predominantly focuses on structural data restoration, struggling to integrate historical context, ecological wisdom, and spatial integrity. This study explores sustainable applications of gamified digital...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue A Digital Innovation Framework for Construction Management and Built Environment)
  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
12,678 Views
10 Pages

Use of 3D Laser Scanning and Additive Technologies for Reconstruction of Damaged and Destroyed Cultural Heritage Objects

  • Vadim Parfenov,
  • Sergei Igoshin,
  • Dmitriy Masaylo,
  • Alexey Orlov and
  • Dzmitry Kuliashou

Three-dimensional laser scanning is a novel measurement technique that is frequently used for the documentation of cultural heritage (CH) objects. In the process of 3D scanning, one can obtain computing 3D models of artworks to be documented. It allo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Laser Assisted Manufacturing)
  • Editorial
  • Open Access
481 Views
8 Pages

Advanced Technologies in Cultural Heritage

  • Ion Sandu,
  • Alan Wecker and
  • Fabrizio Terenzio Gizzi

23 July 2026

Cultural heritage consists of material and immaterial traces of human history, identity, creativity, and collective memory; its preservation is a major scientific, social, and technological challenge [...]

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Technologies in Cultural Heritage)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
7,037 Views
17 Pages

12 October 2022

The aim of this research is to identify the digital technology impact and experience innovation of cultural heritages in the context of the epidemic. The authors created an analytical framework and used a qualitative exploratory multi-case study of t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Business Model–the Perspective of Systems Thinking and Innovation)
  • Review
  • Open Access
171 Citations
46,714 Views
28 Pages

Technologies for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage—A Systematic Review of the Literature

  • María Antonia Diaz Mendoza,
  • Emiro De La Hoz Franco and
  • Jorge Eliecer Gómez Gómez

6 January 2023

This work establishes the technological elements that have enabled the preservation, promotion, and dissemination of tangible and intangible cultural heritage in the period from 2018 to 2022. For this, a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) was conduct...

(This article belongs to the Section Tourism, Culture, and Heritage)
  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
4,759 Views
23 Pages

Proportionated Distributions in Spatiotemporal Structure of the World Cultural Heritage Sites: Analysis and Countermeasures

  • Ya Yao,
  • Xinyuan Wang,
  • Linlin Lu,
  • Chuansheng Liu and ,
  • Qiang Wu,
  • Hongge Ren,
  • Shu Yang,
  • Ruiqi Sun,
  • Lei Luo and
  • Kai Wu
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

17 February 2021

Asia, Europe, and Africa, connected by the maritime silk road (MSR) and the land silk road (LSR), as the cradle of ancient civilizations, contain rich cultural heritage resources. While aiming to achieve differentiated and targeted application, prote...

(This article belongs to the Section Tourism, Culture, and Heritage)
  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,846 Views
25 Pages

Research on Frontier Technology of Risk Management for Conservation of Cultural Heritage Based on Bibliometric Analysis

  • Dandan Li,
  • Laiming Wu,
  • He Huang,
  • Hao Zhou and ,
  • Lankun Cai and
  • Fangyuan Xu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

19 September 2025

In the contemporary international context, the preventive conservation of cultural relics has become a widespread consensus. “Risk management” has emerged as a pivotal research focus at the present stage. However, the preventive protectio...

  • Case Report
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,813 Views
17 Pages

6 March 2023

This study aims to enable users of digitized cultural heritage artefacts to understand the correlation between artefacts and their context, discover new knowledge, and gain inspiration. We have developed data labelling and visualization technologies...

(This article belongs to the Section Digital Heritage)
  • Review
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,914 Views
19 Pages

Digital technologies have been widely adopted in the Cultural Heritage sector over the past few decades. Many museums, galleries, historic sites, and other cultural institutions now host multimedia exhibitions or temporary installations in which tech...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Virtual Reality Technology, Systems and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
6,718 Views
21 Pages

Innovative Technologies for Cultural Heritage. Tattoo Sensors and AI: The New Life of Cultural Assets

  • Maurizio Talamo,
  • Federica Valentini,
  • Andrea Dimitri and
  • Ivo Allegrini

30 March 2020

Conservation and restoration of cultural heritage is something more than a simple process of maintaining the existing. It is an integral part of the improvement of the cultural asset. The social context around the restoration shapes the specific acti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
74 Citations
10,681 Views
29 Pages

In recent decades, 3D acquisition by laser scanning or digital photogrammetry has become one of the standard methods of documenting cultural heritage, because it permits one to analyze the shape, geometry, and location of any artefact without necessa...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Data Acquisition and Processing in Cultural Heritage)
  • Article
  • Open Access
82 Citations
12,786 Views
22 Pages

12 November 2020

Digital storytelling can offer multiple benefits both to students and teachers, and new media provide multimodal ways to produce, transmit and communicate stories. In parallel, the need to engage preschool children with the creative use of technology...

(This article belongs to the Collection Sustainability in the Era of Mobile Learning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,324 Views
24 Pages

i-Game: Redefining Cultural Heritage Through Inclusive Game Design and Advanced Technologies

  • Makrina Viola Kosti,
  • Sotiris Diplaris,
  • Nefeli Georgakopoulou,
  • Pille Runnel and ,
  • Camilla Marini,
  • Nikos Rovatsos,
  • Angeliki Barakli,
  • Eva de Lera,
  • Stefanos Vrochidis and
  • Ioannis Kompatsiaris
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

The intersection of serious games, advanced technologies, and culture offers new paths for fostering social inclusion and sustainability. This position paper presents i-Game, an EU project dedicated to transforming the relationship between cultural h...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Electronics and Computer Science for Cultural Heritage: Advancements, Preservation, and Applications, 2nd Edition)
  • Review
  • Open Access
48 Citations
11,351 Views
39 Pages

Climate Change and Cultural Heritage: A Global Mapping of the UNESCO Thematic Indicators in Conjunction with Advanced Technologies for Cultural Sustainability

  • Mohsen Aboulnaga,
  • Ahmed Abouaiana,
  • Paola Puma,
  • Maryam Elsharkawy and ,
  • Mohamed Farid,
  • Sarah Gamal and
  • Elena Lucchi
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

30 May 2024

This study investigates the relationship between cultural heritage and climate change, assessing the global implementation of advanced technologies in line with UNESCO’s Thematic Indicators for Cultural Sustainability. Few studies have been con...

(This article belongs to the Section Tourism, Culture, and Heritage)
  • Article
  • Open Access
51 Citations
9,089 Views
22 Pages

A Methodology for Semantic Enrichment of Cultural Heritage Images Using Artificial Intelligence Technologies

  • Yalemisew Abgaz,
  • Renato Rocha Souza,
  • Japesh Methuku,
  • Gerda Koch and
  • Amelie Dorn

Cultural heritage images are among the primary media for communicating and preserving the cultural values of a society. The images represent concrete and abstract content and symbolise the social, economic, political, and cultural values of the socie...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fine Art Pattern Extraction and Recognition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,654 Views
33 Pages

17 January 2026

In recent years, the application of augmented reality digital technology in brands has transformed the way consumers interact with brands. This study focuses on the impact of augmented reality (AR) technology on consumption behavior and brand communi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Affective Shifts: Emotion, Identity, and Consumer Behavior in a Changing Digital World)
  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
5,925 Views
24 Pages

26 April 2022

Preservation of cultural heritage plays an important role in society, significantly contributing to its sustainability, which is important for human development and quality of life. The issue of cultural heritage digitization has recently been the su...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Remote Sensing Applications in Archaeology, Geography, and the Earth Sciences)
  • Article
  • Open Access
411 Views
21 Pages

8 October 2026

Drawing on a panel of 30 Chinese provinces for 2012–2022, this study examines the association between digital technology development and the sustainable development of intangible cultural heritage (ICH). Composite indices are constructed using...

(This article belongs to the Section Tourism, Culture, and Heritage)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,643 Views
34 Pages

21 March 2026

This work examines how digital technologies, particularly 3D imaging, additive man-ufacturing, and digital twins, contribute to a more interactive and process-oriented understanding of cultural preservation. Building on practical experience with muse...

  • Article
  • Open Access
58 Citations
8,825 Views
25 Pages

Digital Technologies for the Sustainable Development of the Accessible Underwater Cultural Heritage Sites

  • Fabio Bruno,
  • Michela Ricca,
  • Antonio Lagudi,
  • Pari Kalamara and ,
  • Angelos Manglis,
  • Anastasia Fourkiotou,
  • Dimitra Papadopoulou and
  • Aggeliki Veneti
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

23 November 2020

In recent years, the development in digital technologies such as Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) has evolved rapidly. These technologies are currently in the process of creating driving change in the Cultural and Creative Industries (...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Technologies for Maritime and Underwater Archaeology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
10,624 Views
20 Pages

23 September 2022

The sustainability problem of many intangible cultural heritage (ICH) products stems from the shrinking of the core practitioner group, which is also the case for bamboo basketry craft. We believe that the problem in bamboo basketry originated in the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cultural Industries and Sustainable Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
46 Citations
7,677 Views
15 Pages

3D Documentation and Visualization of Cultural Heritage Buildings through the Application of Geospatial Technologies

  • Efstratios Stylianidis,
  • Konstantinos Evangelidis,
  • Rebeka Vital,
  • Panagiotis Dafiotis and
  • Stella Sylaiou

21 September 2022

Architectural survey is an evolving field in architecture that has been affected during the past decade by the technological advancements in the field of 3D data acquisition. Some of these technological advancements include long-range laser scanning...

(This article belongs to the Section Cultural Heritage)
  • Review
  • Open Access
86 Citations
22,236 Views
18 Pages

28 July 2024

This article aims to assist readers in understanding the current status of studies on the subject by providing a descriptive bibliometric analysis of publications on virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and mixed reality (MR) technologies in...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cultural Heritage Conservation and Sustainable Development)
  • Opinion
  • Open Access
143 Citations
18,922 Views
25 Pages

10 April 2023

Three-dimensional scanning and 3D printing have become increasingly important tools in the field of cultural heritage. Three-dimensional scanning is used to create detailed digital models of cultural heritage sites, artifacts, and monuments, which ca...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
18 Citations
6,970 Views
14 Pages

15 December 2023

This review constitutes a comprehensive systematic review analyzing cultural routes, with a particular focus on the concept of the cultural route as a tourist–cultural product. Within this framework, the paper offers an overview of contemporary...

(This article belongs to the Collection Encyclopedia of Social Sciences)
  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
7,971 Views
18 Pages

30 October 2024

As traditional cultural heritage education gradually reduces students’ exposure to the physical environment, it is more difficult to stimulate students’ awareness of and interest in local culture. The concepts of cultural preservation and...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Education and Approaches)
  • Article
  • Open Access
859 Views
27 Pages

6 August 2026

This study investigates the 3D mapping and VR technologies for virtual tourism applications by utilizing Souq Al-Alawi, which is a UNESCO heritage site located in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Virtual reality is a technology that has opened up possibilities...

  • Article
  • Open Access
171 Citations
37,949 Views
39 Pages

20 August 2024

Heritage preservation fundamentally represents an act of communication, with digitization and virtual access driving cultural heritage research development and dissemination. These tools stimulate the creation of cultural heritage content and inspire...

(This article belongs to the Section Tourism, Culture, and Heritage)
  • Article
  • Open Access
221 Views
18 Pages

Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) is a field of cultural transmission in which communities, practices, knowledge, skills, and forms of expression are reinterpreted across generations. Its integration into teacher education can connect local cultural...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,616 Views
25 Pages

Advanced Technologies Used in Digitizing the Cultural Heritage of Northwestern Colchis: The Experience of the Markul Expedition

  • Galina Trebeleva,
  • Konstantin Glazov,
  • Andrey Kizilov,
  • Anastasya Kizilova and ,
  • Vladlen Yurkov and
  • Gleb Yurkov
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

16 February 2022

The article presents the experience of the Institute of Archeology of the Russian Academy of Science’s Markul Expedition, which utilized digital technologies for the study, preservation, and popularization of cultural heritage. The objective of...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Technologies in Digitizing Cultural Heritage)
  • Review
  • Open Access
24 Citations
5,423 Views
23 Pages

This paper deals with innovative fruition modalities of cultural heritage sites. Based on two ongoing experiments, four pillars are considered, that is, User Localization, Multimodal Interaction, User Understanding and Gamification. A survey of the e...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Wireless Internet, Multimedia, and Artificial Intelligence: New Applications and Infrastructures)
  • Article
  • Open Access
53 Citations
10,196 Views
29 Pages

At present, incorrect or aggressive conservation efforts harm not only the building heritage, but also its cultural significance and authenticity. There is an urgent need to investigate existing studies that utilise proper methods and processes of th...

(This article belongs to the Section Construction Management, and Computers & Digitization)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,291 Views
39 Pages

This study introduces an educational framework that merges 3D modeling with AI-assisted narrative interaction to apply digital technology in cultural heritage education, exemplified by an ancient carriage culture. Through immersive tasks and contextu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Progress in Heritage Education: Evolving Techniques and Methods)
  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
11,358 Views
17 Pages

10 February 2021

Interpretation and presentation is an essential component of the whole heritage conservation process. In response to the new opportunities and challenges arising from the changing perspectives on heritage conservation, the development of display tech...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cultural Heritage: Current Threats and Opportunities)
  • Review
  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,267 Views
31 Pages

This study integrates quantitative scientometric analysis with a qualitative systematic review to comprehensively examine the evolution, core research themes, and emerging trends of three-dimensional (3D) visualization technology in architectural her...

(This article belongs to the Section Architectural Design, Urban Science, and Real Estate)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,608 Views
24 Pages

2 August 2023

While the use of semantic technologies is now commonplace in the cultural heritage sector and several semantically annotated cultural heritage datasets are publicly available, there are few examples of cultural portals that exploit these datasets and...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Technologies in Digitizing Cultural Heritage Volume II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
10,745 Views
24 Pages

Cultural Heritage at Risk in World Conflicts: Digital Tools’ Contribution to Its Preservation

  • Grazia Neglia,
  • Mariarosaria Angrisano,
  • Ippolita Mecca and
  • Francesco Fabbrocino

9 November 2024

Cultural heritage is, today, particularly exposed to the devastation resulting from natural phenomena, but it is even more exposed to the destruction caused by man-made ones. Consequently, it is critical to adopt suitable and concrete provisions for...

  • Review
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,272 Views
31 Pages

Immersive HCI for Intangible Cultural Heritage in Tourism Contexts: A Narrative Review of Design and Evaluation

  • Zhan Xu,
  • Feng Liu,
  • Guobin Xia,
  • Shuo Wang and ,
  • Yiting Duan,
  • Luwen Yu,
  • Shichao Zhao and
  • Muzi Li
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

23 December 2025

Immersive technologies such as virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), mixed reality (MR), and multisensory interaction are increasingly deployed to support the transmission and presentation of intangible cultural heritage (ICH), particularly w...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Urban Tourism)
  • Review
  • Open Access
38 Citations
14,045 Views
33 Pages

Artificial Intelligence in Heritage Tourism: Innovation, Accessibility, and Sustainability in the Digital Age

  • José-Manuel Sánchez-Martín,
  • Rebeca Guillén-Peñafiel and
  • Ana-María Hernández-Carretero

12 October 2025

Artificial intelligence (AI) is profoundly transforming heritage tourism through the incorporation of technological solutions that reconfigure the ways in which cultural heritage is conserved, interpreted, and experienced. This article presents a cri...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Digital Museology and Emerging Technologies in Cultural Heritage)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,183 Views
34 Pages

25 November 2025

Cultural heritage plays a crucial role in maintaining cultural diversity and historical identity. However, preservation faces challenges from natural and human-induced factors, prompting increased adoption of digital technologies. Digital cultural he...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
709 Views
27 Pages

19 March 2026

Sustainable building research increasingly incorporates AI technologies to enhance efficiency and decision-making, yet little is known about how algorithmic mediation shapes the cultural identity processes essential for heritage sustainability. This...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence Technologies for Sustainable Building Design and Building Information Modeling)
  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
8,956 Views
34 Pages

30 December 2024

This paper explores contemporary approaches to preserving and promoting cultural heritage by integrating game elements and advanced technologies, such as Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR). In an era increasingly shaped by digital innova...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,435 Views
23 Pages

Corporate food museums are increasingly recognised as strategic heritage infrastructures capable of mediating between industrial memory, territorial identity, and contemporary societal challenges. This paper proposes a conceptual shift that repositio...

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