Challenges, Strategies and High-Tech Applications for Saving the Cultural Heritage of Syria, pp. 193-212, 2022/03/24
Proceedings of the Workshop held at the 10th ICAANE in Vienna, April 2016
CIPA, a joint committee of ICOMOS and ISPRS, is contributing with its data and technical knowledge tosaving the heritage of Syria by constructing an open-access database. It is largely based on the data that the CIPA membershave collected during various projects in Syria over the years before the civil war in the country broke out in 2011In this way we wish to support the protection and preservation of the environment, sites, monuments, artefacts and thememory of the region that has been crucial for the human past and the emergence of civilisations Apart from countlesshuman atrocities and loss, the damage, destruction and looting of the cultural heritage have taken place on a large scaleCIPA’s initiative is one of the various international projects that have been set up since the conflict started. The Directorate-General of the Antiquities and Museums (DGAM) of Syria, as well as UNESCO with its various sub-organisations,have been central in facing the challenges during the war Digital data capture, storage and dissemination are at the heartof CIPA’s strategies in recording and documenting cultural heritage, including in Syria It goes without saying that forthe conservation and restoration work high-quality metric information is of the utmost importance.
Keywords: cultural heritage; documentation; database; data standards; GIS
