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2020 Second International Symposium on Digital Heritage - Next Digital Transformation: Broadening the Territory of Digital Heritage -
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2020 Second International Symposium on Digital Heritage - Next Digital Transformation: Broadening the Territory of Digital Heritage -

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The 2nd International Symposium on Digital Heritage, titled "Next Digital Transformation: Broadening the Territory of Digital Heritage,” will be held as a virtual online meeting in the annex building of the National Palace Museum by the Cultural Heritage Administration (CHA) of Korea (Ms. Jae-suk Chung, Administrator) on December 3?4, 2020, in close cooperation with the Digital Heritage Lab at the Graduate School of Culture Technology, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, and PoST MEDIA Inc. Sixteen national and international experts have been invited to deliver lectures and participate in discussions for this symposium.

The symposium is a series of annual conferences on digital heritage organized by CHA. This year’s symposium is the second meeting and has the following objectives: to share best practices in the documentation, conservation, management, interpretation, and utilization of cultural heritage within the application of digital heritage technologies and to strengthen the professional network among the heritage professionals. In the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, the symposium will be livestreamed as a webinar through a YouTube channel(https://bit.ly/3fqvcVr) in both Korean and English, and simultaneous interpretation will be available.

The innovative advancement of digital technologies, referred to as the Fourth Industrial Revolution and DNA (Data, Network, and AI), is widely affecting cultural heritage policies overall. Such advancements have also accelerated the integration of digital transformation of cultural heritage policies, which are quite different from conventional policies, expanding the roles and values of digital heritage.

In light of the above, the symposium will unveil best practices in digital documentation for cultural and natural properties in a holistic way by discussing historic monuments, museums, and cultural heritage and its attributed values, natural heritage, and underwater archaeology. The symposium will also discuss relevant trends, concerns, practical challenges, and possible solutions. In particular, in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, this symposium is expected to rediscover the value of digital heritage resources and seek other development potential for the promotion and enjoyment of our shared heritage.

The symposium will commence with two important keynote lectures. The title of one is "Potential for the utilization of VR, AR in integration of the digital twin” to be delivered by Professor Woontack Woo, Head of Graduate School of Culture Technology at KAIST, and the other is "Cultural heritage recording and documentation in the pandemic era” by Professor Efstratios Stylianidis, President of ICOMOS CIPA Heritage Documentation, Vice Rector for Research & Lifelong Learning, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. 

The first session of the symposium will be about Digital Documentation: the recognition of less-represented heritage categories, and the following three presentations will be given: 1) Toward building a guideline for the three-dimensional digital documentation of Natural Heritage (Visiting Professor Jaehong Ahn, KAIST CT, Digital Heritage Lab), 2) Digital documentation for underwater heritage or archaeology ? The iMARECULTURE project experience (Professor Dimitrios Skarlatos (Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus), and 3) Digital documentation for natural heritage ? Jeju Volcanic Island and Lava Tube, World Heritage (Mr. Seungho Jung, Researcher, Natural Heritage Division, National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage).

The second session of the symposium will be about Digital Documentation: the interconnection between historic monuments and their broader environments and values, and the following three presentations will be given: 1) Digital documentation (method) for largescale cultural heritage sites ? Silk Roads of UNESCO World Heritage Site (Dr. Dmitriy Voyakin, Director of the International Institute for Central Asian Studies), 2) Capitalizing on digital technologies in the conservation of our heritage under lockdowns (Professor Mario Santana Quintero, Vice-president of ICOMOS, Carleton University, Canada), and 3) Establishment of 3D cultural heritage database and its utilization (Mr. Yeon Gyu Choi, Deputy-Director, ICT Management Office, Cultural Heritage Administration).

The third session of the symposium will be about Digital Documentation: resources for heritage interpretation and utilization, and the following three presentations will be given: 1) The mediation of digital heritage to support the values of inaccessible or destroyed buildings (Professor Pierre Hallot DIVA - Documentation, Interpretation, VAlorisation of Heritages, Universit? de Li?ge, Belgium), 2) Use of digital heritage resources within the museum context (Professor Mona Hess, Institute for Archaeology, Heritage Conservation Studies and Art History (IADK) University of Bamberg, Germany), and 3) Cultural heritage, immersive contents, museum ? What to prepare? (Ms. Eunjeong Chang Curator, Museum Digitization and General Management Division, National Museum of Korea).

For more details, please visit the following website: www.cha.go.kr

The Cultural Heritage Administration of Korea believes that this symposium will pave the way for the development of the digital heritage domain in Korea in all aspects of our digital heritage efforts. CHA will continuously strengthen a professional network of digital heritage professionals from here and abroad and discuss the role of digital heritage and its contribution in the field of cultural heritage management and utilization, including research and knowledge sharing.