Virtual Heritage School

Virtual Heritage Schools
Cyprus Virtual Heritage School

    <URL:http://v-must.net/schools/cyprus-virtual-heritage-school>

Virtual Heritage School on Digital Cultural Heritage: 3D
documentation, imaging technologies and knowledge repositories. The
workshop focuses on advanced technologies applied to Cultural
Heritage (CH) for the preservation and dissemination of results,
through education and training in information and communication
technologies. It will focus on technologies for digital data
acquisition (photogrammetry, laser scanning and Polynomial Texture
Mapping), the use of open-source software for data post-processing
and metadata standards and knowledge management.

Italian Virtual Heritage School: VirtualArchaeology
June 11-15, 2012
<URL:http://v-must.net/schools/italian-virtual-herit-school-virtual-archaeology>

    It is the 4th Italian School of Virtual Archaeology. This year
    the School is organised by CNR ITABC and CNR ISTI and includes
    computer graphics. It is organised  in cooperation with CINECA
    and University of Padova. It origins from CNR ITABC and
    University of Padova "Virtual Archaeology" national school
    (2009-2011). Monday, June 25, 2012 to Friday, July 6, 2012
    German Virtual Heritage

    The school introduces participants to the new field on web
    deployment of VR and AR Applications ("VR/AR Apps") as well as
    related topics on applied CG technology in the area of virtual
    and augmented digital heritage, 3D reconstruction, technological
    tools dedicated to processing and integration into web front
    ends, ported to mobile smartphones and registered with the
    physical world. The students will learn basic concepts for 3D
    documentation, capturing, tracking and reconstruction
    technologies required for online/offline and mobile virtual
    museums.  September 3-7, 2012 Virtual Museum Academy 2012

    The Museum of the Imperial Fora in Trajan's Markets, Rome, in
    cooperation with the Allard Pierson Museum of Amsterdam,
    organizes, under V-Must.Net project, the 1st edition of the
    Virtual Museum Academy. The 2nd and the 3rd editions of the VMA
    will be hosted in the others Museums involved in the Project.
    The Virtual Museum Academy is directed, through specific
    courses, to Museum Staff and to Museum/Institutions Managers.

International Virtual Heritage School
September 5-7, 2012
<URL:http://v-must.net/schools/inter-virtual-heritage-school>

    The school is aimed at creating a basic shared knowledge and
    integration between ICT/CH/content developer trainees. It will
    face the problem of the modern technologies in the heritage
    field, giving participants the opportunity to obtain a detailed
    overview of the main methods and applications to archaeological
    and conservation research. It develops the integration of
    theoretical, methodological and analytical aspects of
    archaeological research. Monday, September 10, 2012 United
    Kingdom Virtual Heritage School

    "Virtual Restoration and Reconstruction in a London Charter
    Framework

    The UK Virtual Heritage School explores the theory and best
    practice of heritage visualisation. The school is offered by the
    Department of Digital Humanities

        <URL:http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/ddh/index.aspx>

    at King's College London, UK and is led by King's Visualisation
    Labs (KVL)

        <URL:http://www.kvl.cch.kcl.ac.uk>

    which specialises in the creation of digital visualisations for
    historical research, archaeology and cultural heritage. KVL is
    well known for its leadership in establishing and promoting
    international standards for such work, most notably through the
    London Charter for the Computer-based Visualisation of Cultural
    Heritage

    <URL:http://www.londoncharter.org>

    The School syllabus is guided by the principles of this charter.
    September 10-20, 2012


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