2023-10-11 –, Create
This session presents the remarkable results of the Horizon 2020 ERA Chair in Digital Cultural Heritage: ‘Mnemosyne’ project conducted at the Cyprus University of Technology, funded under the programme ‘Establishing ERA Chairs’. The newly developed “Mnemosyne” methodology includes a research approach and associated techniques for the creation of the enhanced digital “memory twins” for 17 selected exemplar heritage case studies.
Extending the 2020 EU study VIGIE 2020/654, the Mnemosyne methodology proposes holistic documentation and development pipelines for the data acquisition and digitisation of cultural heritage throughout a project’s lifecycle from planning to preservation. Starting from understanding key factors like complexity and quality of the target and digitisation before work is undertaken, who the stakeholders are – a multidisciplinary community of experts and users involved in the documentation of and digitisation of heritage – categorising informational needs, expertise and motivations through to how the digitalised object, including its metadata and paradata, can be used and reused maximising return on investment both intellectually and financially.
These factors, amongst others, are critical in the holistic approach to cultural heritage digitisation if meaningful and high-quality data is to be produced and advance the state of the art from the geometric-based digital twin to the higher-order memory twin incorporating geometric, intangible and process data.
Furthermore, the methodology includes integrated taxonomies for movable and immovable tangible cultural heritage (with an aspiration to extend into intangible heritage domains) to support the representation, understanding and communication of the complex nature of cultural heritage.
Elina received her Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Brunel University London, UK (2017). Her Ph.D. research is based on finite elements methods for engineering problems in solid and structural mechanics. Her work experience and research interests include but are not limited to mathematical and computational modelling, numerical analysis, data analytics, approximation theory, informatics, data knowledge and data management.
Elina currently works as a Postdoctoral Research Associate for the project “Mnemosyne”, funded by the European Union H2020, at the newly established UNESCO and European Research Area Chairs on Digital Cultural Heritage at the Cyprus University of Technology (CUT).