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shoot. having digital backups comes in handy, like of your diploma or your favorite totals. 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 and gods as that. i danger, but all kinds of online archives of things like paintings and lit, which are to me in ukraine. russian bombs are not only killing people and estimating 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. we're trying to capture a version of,

of all of it so that that can be something that is safe and outside the country. some tech companies are supporting suit, joe, by providing servers in storage for free. 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, 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, anyone 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. drones are used to serve a parts of the wall 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, identified the damage and planned 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 to off 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 grammar tree, where overlapping photos are combined to create extremely realistic 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 businessmen. 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 true. dom was a lifelong passion for andrew talon. here 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 to see about this is a bit of lead that was often used as a joint between edge betted elements such as this on used laser scanning technology to map no to tom. he collected more than $1000000000.00 data points, which he then linked to photos of the scanned areas. andrew 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 it's 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. and andrew talon did not live to see exactly how important his scans would turn out to be several months before the fire destroyed notre adams roof

inspire, he died of cancer. part of the reconstruction plan is based on talent 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 identical, you know, to 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 neutral dumps. fire frances, 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 on lime ah, artifacts from african history. ideally, you might see them in person in the museum collection, but kenyan historian, child diana minor. once more world wide accessibility we visited for many reasons, one of the primary ones being access, enabling audiences practitioners be such as to access materials remotely to access

material 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 them, digitizing tens of thousands of books, papers, and photos. some of them hundreds of years old. i 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 to objects is also a way of writing history. when we are digitizing,

do we still defeat the theme? colonial kind of tom. do we still repeat the ways in which our people are objects are described? or is this an opportunity to say ok, 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 cable 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, dis, tangible, nato 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 in i feel that they walk back, read going to digitize history 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 save, got casual heritage for generations to come. but 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 capital on the screen? or do you need to physically be there to get the full experience? let us know what do you think as often now, bye bye. ah

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