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Articles | Volume IV-2/W2
https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-annals-IV-2-W2-157-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-annals-IV-2-W2-157-2017
16 Aug 2017
 | 16 Aug 2017

A SURVEY ON TOPICS, RESEARCHERS AND CULTURES IN THE FIELD OF DIGITAL HERITAGE

S. Münster

Keywords: Digital heritage, Survey, Topics, Scholarly Area

Abstract. Digital heritage comprises a broad variety of approaches and topics and involves researchers from multiple disciplines. While the use of digital methods in the text-oriented disciplines dealing with cultural heritage is widely discussed and canonized, an up-to-date investigation on cultural heritage as a scholarly field is currently missing. The extended abstract is about a three-stage investigation on standards, publications, disciplinary cultures as well as scholars in the field of digital heritage, carried out in 2016 and 2017. It includes results of a workshop-based survey involving 44 researchers, 15 qualitative interviews as well as an online survey with nearly 1000 participants. As an overall finding, a community is driven by researchers from European countries and especially Italy with a background in humanities, dealing with topics of data acquisition, data management and visualization. Moreover, conference series are most relevant for a scientific discourse, and especially EU projects set pace as most important research endeavours.