VAST 2007: VIRTUAL REALITY, ARCHAEOLOGY AND CULTURAL HERITAGE

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The cultural heritage sector spans many distinct sub-areas, which may be divided into two major classifications:

• Tangible heritage, represented by the discovery, documentation, organisation, interpretation and communication of artefacts, monuments, sites, museums and collections (including digital archives, catalogues and libraries).
• Intangible heritage, represented by performance, stories, myth and mythology. At the interface between these two areas lies the area of historical and cultural interpretation. The increasing volume of digital cultural artefacts and collections

This collection contains the research presented at VAST 2007, the 8th International Symposium on Virtual Reality, Archaeology and Cultural Heritage, which will take place November 27-29, in Brighton, UK. Topics include those that advance the state of the art either in potential computing science solutions, which are directly inspired by needs of the cultural heritage sector, or use the best of current computing science solutions in novel applications to cultural heritage challenges. The research incorporates data from real cultural heritage situations.

Editors

David Arnold, University of Brighton, United Kingdom

Franco Niccolucci, University of Florence, Italy

Alan Chalmers, University of Warwick, United Kingdom

Market Description

• Computer graphics students and professionals
• Academic and corporate libraries

Key Selling Points

The promises to be an exciting year for technology and cultural heritage as Europe is in transition from Framework 6 to Framework 7 (the European Union’s Research and Development Program).