Conservation, Restoration, and Analysis of Architectural and Archaeological Heritage.

Cultural heritage (CH) can be understood as a complexity of activities in a very wide range of disciplines whose aim is to identify, evaluate, and preserve past achievements for the benefit of next generation in having memory of the past and inspiration from it for future enhancements and appreciation of current results. Many are thus the disciplines that concurrently can help in identifying, comprehending, and transmitting to future generations CH values as well as in stimulating the inspiration of present and future architects, archaeologists, designers, engineers and all that people who work in this area. Digital technologies have produced important methodological changes in those disciplines devoted to the documentation, study, analysis, preservation, conservation and even management of CH. Main topics are: new technologies of non-contact survey; Reconstruction of 2D and 3D models; architectural/ archaeological representation in all its forms; Theory and Methods for historical analysis; history of architecture and of built artefacts; Theory and Methods of built artefacts conservation and restoration; building retrofitting and enhancement. The focus of the publication is on digital technologies and data processing in CH. Then the focus will be on a wide range of topics like 2D, 3D data capture methodologies and data processing, 3D GIS in CH, virtual reality in architecture, archaeology and historical research, standards, metadata, ontologies and semantic processing in CH. But also data management, archiving and presentation of CH content, innovative topics related to the current and future implementation, use, development and exploitation of the innovative technologies, digital data acquisition technologies and data processing in CH, on-site and remotely sensed data collection. An important aspect concerns the reproduction techniques and rapid prototyping in CH, innovative graphics applications and techniques, digital libraries and archives in CH, tools for education, diagnoses and monitoring for the preventive conservation and maintenance of CH, status, and state of conservation of existing buildings, status and state of conservation of structure of existing buildings, structural reinforcement of existing buildings, restoration theories, history and theory of architectural conservation, interpretation of the mechanical behavior of existing buildings, mechanical behavior of existing materials.