Open AccessVirtualArch: Making Archaeological Heritage Visible
Author(s) -
Jiří Unger,
Christiane Hemker,
Christoph Lobinger,
Jan Mařík
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
internet archaeology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.162
H-Index - 10
ISSN - 1363-5387
DOI - 10.11141/ia.54.2
Subject(s) - general partnership , archaeology , presentation (obstetrics) , cultural heritage , virtual reality , national heritage , process (computing) , geography , history , political science , computer science , ethnology , law , radiology , operating system , medicine , artificial intelligence
Rapid technological development in recent years means that virtual reconstructions have evolved from an illustrative complement of archaeological presentation to becoming a standard part of the interpretative process of archaeological data. VirtualArch has been employed to develop the use of virtual reconstructions as an innovative visualisation tool. Ten partners from eight countries have come together in an EU-funded project (Interreg Central Europe), running from 2017 to 2020. The partnership comprises regional and national archaeological institutes and heritage offices, two universities/research institutions and also two local communities. Eight pilot sites have been selected across Central Europe with three main types; urban areas, mines and underwater sites. All have one thing in common; none are publicly accessible or visible. The aim of the project has been to make all of these sites accessible and comprehensible through the use of virtual and augmented reality. This article summarises the project and its outcomes.