The International Conference on Cultural Heritage and New Technologies is an annual conference taking place annually in Vienna, Austria, since 1996. The conference brings together professionals and scholars from the diverse fields of cultural heritage, including archaeology, building history, art history, conservation, and museum educational services amongst others, who are interested in the application of technology to facilitate and enhance the research, conservation, valorisation and dissemination of cultural heritage in all its forms. The contributions come from scholars and academics, public and commercial cultural heritage professionals, developers, and engineers and other stakeholders in cultural heritage. The conference is a major plattform for the exchange of ideas and innovations in the field and also for the critical discussion of the impact, consequences and opportunities that arise with the application of technology in the cultural heritage field. The participants of the conference come from all over the world, with a majority of them coming from Europe.
The conference is organized in Sessions where contributions to specific topics are discussed by specialists and those interested. The program is supplemented with Poster- and App-presentations. Abstracts that have been accepted and presented at the conference can then be submitted as paper for the proceedings and will be published after going through the peer-review-process. The authors who decide not to hand in a full paper and also authors of the posters and apps can publish their contributions as short papers, which will be reviewed by the editorial team and only.
Besides the sessions, currently disputed and emerging topics of the field are being discussed in the form of round table discussions. A summary of the single contributions the round tables are published as short papers in the proceedings.
The CHNT Proccedings are being published since 2009. Starting with the issue 2019, the proceedings are published as propylaeum ebook series. The previous proceedings can be found on the CHNT Proceedings archive.
After the preview volume of the proceedings of CHNT 26 (2021) has had been published a while ago on this page, now the final volume has also been finished and published at Propylaeum eBooks under its doi 10.11588/propylaeum.1449.
Read more about Final Volume of CHNT 26 Published at Propylaeum
The 26th international conference "Cultural Heritage and New Technologies" took place in 2021 on the topic "The World’s Heritage in the Digital Age – New Technologies Towards Sustainable Research, Conservation and Communication" at Vienna City Hall and online.
The contributions collected in this proceedings’ volume deal with technology-supported processes and methods in all areas of cultural heritage. The papers cover topics such as quantitative methods, questions of data modelling and the semantic web, modelling, methods of digital (emergency) documentation as well as questions of (world) cultural heritage management in the context of digitization.
This is a preview of the finished papers of the 2021 Conference on Cultural Heritage and New Technologies. The final Version, to which the dois in the paper refer are published at Propylaeum eBooks and can be found under it's doi: 10.11588/propylaeum.1449
