CyArk, a digital services provider, is looking for proposals for sites, especially less well known ‘at risk’ sites, to be selected to be part of the first 500 sites to be digitally documented, with nominations open to anyone, and the assessment panel chaired by the Head of ICOMOS Gustavo Aros.
CyArk writes:
The CyArk 500 Challenge is a programme for the 3D scanning and digital preservation of 500 world heritage sites within a period of 5 years.
CyArk has already completed 40 projects toward its goal of 500. These sites, called the Exemplar Projects, include Pompeii, Babylon, Mt. Rushmore, the Leaning Tower of Pisa, the Titanic, the Sydney Opera House and, most recently, the Tower of London.
Future projects comprising the CyArk 500 will be evaluated for inclusion by the CyArk Advisory Council, chaired by Gustavo Araoz, president of the International Council of Monuments and Sites.
Through the CyArk 500, we can achieve an order of magnitude improvement in the way we document, preserve, experience and archive our cultural heritage by bridging and integrating islands of automation in 3D and other digital technologies. CyArk achieves this order of magnitude improvement through a process we call Digital Preservation.
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