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hulu, what people have to say matters to us. but me, that's why we listen to their stories reporter every weekend on d. w. when will the leaning tower of pisa colette, many world famous monuments are at risk you to climate change war and negligence. but with the help of 3 d scans, drones and a i, we can save these iconic buildings, at least virtually how it all works. that's our topic on ship today. ah. having digital backups comes in handy, like of your diploma or your favorite. todos the same is true for historic buildings that have deteriorated over the years,

like mexico cities famous metropolitan cathedral, which has been damaged by several earthquakes. luckily is 3 d model is earthquake proof. that's also a detail 3 d model of the gateway of india and moon by which has been eroded by sea water. but it's estimated that so far, only about 15 percent of the world's casual heritage has been digitally preserved by now. ukraine's cause will have it. it is especially at risk. it's not only buildings in scots as that i, danger, but all kinds of online archives of things like paintings and lid, which are to me in ukraine. russian bombs are not only killing people and decimating homes and infrastructure. they're destroying cultural heritage to me. right now, everything's at risk. everything from physical museum collections, to records of library holdings, to servers with websites. at the end of the day,

the internet is as physical as, as anything else that depends on servers that have to be connected to power and connected to cables. and those servers are at risk of being destroyed. if servers are destroyed, digital backups of art and other records are lost to that's why quin number ski and a group of library and researchers and programmers joint forces to start saving ukrainian cultural heritage online. soon after the russian attack, future volunteers began archiving as much as possible relying and what they could find from ukrainian cultural institutions online were trying to, to capture those websites with everything that's on them. any pdf, any image, any 3 d model or, or walk through, were trying to, can capture a version of, of all of it so that, that can be, you know, something that is safe and outside the country. ah, some tech companies are supporting search by providing servers in storage for free

. oh, so far the group has saved more than 30 terabytes of content from over 3500 websites. more than 1300 volunteers helped with the task. sometimes it's not even like a firefighter squad, it's, it's more like, you know, neighbors with water buckets. you know it, many of us had not really done any work on web archiving before this year on quin dombrowski hope so chose archive will never actually be needed. we don't actually want these to be useful if they're useful. it is a sign that something terrible has happened in terms of the preservation of, of cultural heritage. the great thing about this project, any one can pitch him, you can learn more at social dot org. sometimes doing your part to digital to preserve cultural heritage is simple. other times more expertise is needed. ah, the great wall of china is the world's longest manmade structure. it's more than 20000

kilometers long over 2000 years old and in desperate need of repair. droves are used to serve a parts of the wool that are difficult to access. after filming the wall of close, the data is then used to create 3 d models. a i is then used to scan these models, identify the damage and plan the necessary repairs. the non profit cy arc specializes in 3 d laser scans of endangered cultural sites. here's how it works. and laser skinner sensors pulses of light by measuring how long it takes for the lights to be reflected on various surfaces. it's possible to determine the size and surface material of objects. this method is called lighter. another technique that's used as photo crabtree, where overlapping photos are combined to create extremely realistic in 3 d models.

anyone can check out the scans on google's arts and culture platform or download the datasets on open heritage. 3 d digital technology has become critical in reconstructing destroyed buildings. in august 2015, the temple of balcony and palmera syria was reduced to rubble by the islamic state . terrorists group. however, back in the 1950s, smith's archaeologist, po, colored excavated, undocumented the temple. the information he collected back then made it's possible to create a virtual reality image on 3 d model. or the temple of belcher mean is supposed to be rebuilt, just like palmer's arch of triumph, which was also destroyed by ins. using digital muddles robots built a smaller replica of the archway, which has been exhibited in several cities. hopefully the arch of triumph can one

day return to its original location in syria. in 2019 of fire destroyed large parts of the natural dom cathedral. the incident shocked france and people worldwide. that is mean one of the most iconic landmarks in paris was lost forever . fortunately, not, it's cowardly being restored. true to the original. thanks in part with this man. andrew tell him. no tra, dom was a lifelong passion for andrew talon. here at the belgian born art historian is walking around the 850 year old cathedral before the fire. he was recording a $360.00 degree video, which is why the image looks a bit distorted. another interesting detail see about this a bit of lead that was often used as a joint between edge bedded elements such as this talon use laser

scanning technology to map no to tom. he collected more than 1000000000 data points, which he then linked to photos of the scanned areas and became fascinated with the cathedral from a very young age. his work there in trying to create a global laser survey that is really what makes his work stand out there. so we are still reading the benefits of that effort from 2010 in 2012. he scans not just not sure on, you know, but it does, since it's not hundreds of cathedrals from sweden to spain, not true. dom was, i think, a crown jewel. and a lot of ways. andrew talon did not live to see exactly how important his scans would turn out to be several months before the fire destroyed notre dame's roof, inspire. he died of cancer. part of the reconstruction plan is based on talons work . it is one of several records that we have of the pre fire state

of neutral. and this is of course, critically important as the decision was made to restore the building ident, queen, neutral damage restoration teen combine talents, models with additional scans resulting in this impressive 3 d model. us software developer autodesk provides a cloud based data platform which gives all the stakeholders involved in reconstruction, access to the latest records that makes it easier to plan construction. work like calculating how many oak trees need to be felt to replace no to dam speier. francis determined to restore the cathedral true to its original design. the one that andrew talon and his team mapped before the fire thus safeguarding its future. there are many ways in which cultural heritage can

be endangered. one prominent example art stolen by colonizers, the kenya based non profit, african digital heritage, is working to digitize these treasures. and we frame how this history is documented . yet another advantage of digital copies, cultural heritage can be showcased to a global audience online, ah, artifacts from african history. ideally, you might see them in person in the museum collection, but kenyan historian chow tianna minor. once more world wide accessibility, we decide for many reasons, one of the primary ones being access, enabling audiences practitioners we such as to access material remotely, to access materials from different countries. you know, you don't have to be in kenya to access cultural heritage. another reason why we

digitize is to preserve the material the digital heritage specialist trains museum staff across kenya. the teams have a huge task ahead of digitizing tens of thousands of books, papers, and photos. some of them hundreds of years old. a lot of the time when i'm training on digitization, i would say about the process of digitization is not about just sticking the photograph. it's about the decisions that you make before you take this photograph . the 1st step is inspection and selection. not everything can be digitized choosing the right objects is also a way of writing history. when we are digitizing, do we still defeat the theme? colonial kind of tom. we still repeat the ways in which our people are objects are describe or is this an opportunity to say, okay,

let's change how things are described. 0, one example. the mama comes in the 1950s. the british army and colonists detained many canyons and forced labor comes using a kind of material. the african digital heritage non profit, has created 3 these guns of the country. we've been going out into the field documenting these sites in that kind of i would say akila gina sands to see what struck to and still exist as well as contextualizing this tangible heritage, this tangible metal buildings in land to people as memories and people stories digitizing african cultural heritage is a way to re examine contextualize, and preserve this history and culture. and i feel that they walk back, we're going to digitize here. see is also about connecting time. we are connecting

the past the present. and in this very act we are shipping future. 7 thanks to digitization, it's possible to safeguard casual heritage for generations to come. that 3 d models shouldn't be regarded as mere replacements or backups of the originals. instead, there a chance for people across the globe to get to know cultural sides, they otherwise may have never seen was your take? can monuments really be captured on the screen? or do you need to physically be there to get the full experience? let us know what do you think as offer now? bye bye. ah .

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