Annual meeting
Centre for Digital Heritage meeting 2017
- Date
- Wednesday 14 June 2017 - Friday 16 June 2017
- Location
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Van Steenis
Einsteinweg 2
2333 CC Leiden
The Digital Archaeology Research Group and the Centre for Global Heritage and Development at the Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University will jointly host the 2017 annual meeting of the Centre for Digital Heritage (CDH).
The theme of the CDH 2017 meeting will be ‘Heritage under Threat’.

Armed conflicts are currently threatening heritage at scales that seemed inconceivable only a few years ago. Tangible heritage such as landscapes, sites, monuments and artefacts and intangible heritage such as knowledge, languages and traditions are likewise affected. Apart from such obvious threats in conflict zones, heritage elsewhere is often threatened by neglect, decay, or a lack of stakeholder involvement, education, or technical and financial means.
Digital technologies provide manifold means for heritage recording, monitoring, analysis and visualisation, as well as for dissemination, education and community involvement. The 2017 annual meeting of the Centre for Digital Heritage will explore these means and their applications to heritage under threat, taking into account that digital data and tools themselves may become part of our (endangered) heritage.
Program outline
Venue: Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University (Leiden, The Netherlands)
Wednesday, 14 June 2017 |
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18:00 |
Welcome reception at restaurant BurgerZaken |
Breestraat 123, Leiden |
Thursday, 15 June 2017 |
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9:00 |
Registration starts |
Entrance (after 11: close to the Central Hall) |
9:40 – 10:00 |
Welcome |
Central hall |
10:00 – 10:45 |
Keynote speech by Sada Mire (Leiden University) Heritage under Threat: Global Challenges and Digital Possibilities |
Central hall |
10:45 – 11:00 |
Coffee |
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11:00 – 16:00 |
Session 1 “3D Recording and Modelling of Heritage”chaired by Roderik Lindenberg and Ben Gorte (TU Delft) |
Central hall |
11:00 – 11:35 |
Keynote lecture by Erica Nocerino (Bruno Kessler Foundation - FBK Trento) Heritage under threat: fast 3D scanning with portable mobile mapping systems |
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11:35 – 12:00 |
A. S. Wilson, V. Gaffney, E. Ch’ng, C. Gaffney, T. Sparrow, A. Murgatroyd, Y. Luo, E. Faber, R. Bates, R. Cuttler and G. Sears, Curious Travellers – developing web scraping tools and social media APIs for 3D visualisation of heritage under threat |
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12:00 – 13:00 |
Lunch |
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13:00 – 13:25 |
H. Stoeger, M. Locicero and A. Jansen, An embarrassment of riches? |
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13:25 – 13:50 |
R. Lindenbergh, 3D monitoring for assessing structural threats to cultural heritage |
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13:50 – 14:15 |
P. Di Giuseppantonio Di Franco, Replicating lost heritage: 3D digital reconstructions, social recovery, and the sense of place |
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14:15 – 14:45 |
Coffee |
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14:45 – 15:10 |
O. Nieuwenhuijse, D. Ngan-Tillard and J. Verlinden, Pilot project Scanning for Syria |
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15:10 – 15:35 |
M. Durovka, Digitalization of architectural heritage: recording, processing, archiving |
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15:35 – 16:00 |
G. Kozicz, Documenting Himalayan Landscapes: Material Art and Its Meta-Networks |
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16:00 – 17:00 |
Poster session
Opening photo exhibition “Heritage on the Move” |
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17:00 |
End |
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19:00 |
Social dinner at Stadscafe van der Werff |
Steenstraat 2, Leiden |
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Friday, 16 June 2017 |
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9:00 |
Registration starts |
Close to the Central Hall |
9:15 – 12:00 |
Session 2 “Monitoring Heritage Sites and Monuments”chaired by Karsten Lambers (Leiden University) |
Central hall |
9:15 – 09:50 |
Keynote lecture by Francesca Cigna (Italian Space Agency) Very high resolution space radar: a new technology to measure looting and damage in UNESCO monuments and archaeological sites |
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09:50– 10:15 |
A. Vafadari, G. Philip and R. Jennings, Recording and Monitoring of Cultural Heritage Places in Syria |
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10:15– 10:40 |
J. M. Chyla, How can we measure the threat of archaeological sites in Upper Egypt? |
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10:40 – 11:10 |
Coffee |
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11:10 – 11:35 |
J. M. Costa-García, J. Fonte, D. González Álvarez and R. Blanco-Rotea, Archaeological remote sensing for risk monitoring of Roman military sites in Northwest Iberia |
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11:35 – 12:00 |
P. Olmos Benlloch, Monitoring heritage at risk through community archaeology |
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12:00 – 13:00 |
Lunch |
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13:00 – 14:50 |
Session 3 “Making Heritage Data FAIR”chaired by Julian Richards and Gareth Beale (University of York) |
Central hall |
13:00 – 13:35 |
Keynote lecture by Hella Hollander (DANS-KNAW) Everybody wants to play FAIR, but how do we put the principles into practice? |
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13:35 – 14:00 |
U. Jakobsson, Swedish National Data Service (SND); the Findability principle of FAIR |
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14:00 – 14:25 |
I. Huvila, Being FAIR when archaeological information is MEAN: Miscellaneous, Exceptional, Arbitrary, Nonconformist |
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14:25 – 14:50 |
G. Beale, N. Beale and J. Richards, Discovering England's Burial Spaces: A community led documentation project |
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14:50 – 15:15 |
Coffee |
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15:15 – 17:30 |
Session 4 “Heritage as Games – Games as Heritage”chaired by Aris Politopoulos (Leiden University)and Angus Mol (VALUE foundation / Prince Claus Fund) |
Central hall |
15:15 – 15:50 |
Keynote lecture by Colleen Morgan (University of York) Threatened Virtual Worlds: The Life and Death of Çatalhöyük in Second Life |
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15:50 – 16:15 |
N. Schiavottiello, Persistent game worlds as a sustainable tool for the interpretation of endangered and lost tangible Heritage |
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16:15 – 16:40 |
J. Aguilar and A. Geurds, The Archaeological Museum Gregorio Aguilar Barea meets the Unreal Engine: A Virtual Reality experience from Nicaragua |
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16:40 – 17:05 |
A. Mol, C. E. Ariese-Vandemeulebroucke, K. H.J. Boom and A. Politopoulos, Wonders of Civilization: Heritage Preservation and Presentation in Sid Meier’s Civilization Series |
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17:05 – 17:15 |
Concluding remarks |
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17:15 |
End |
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Important dates:
10 June 2017 |
Registration closes |
15-16 June 2017 |
Annual meeting |
Conference fees:
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Early bird (15 March to 14 April 2017) |
Regular (from 15 April to 10 June 2017) |
Members of the LDE Centre for Global Heritage and Development |
0 EUR |
0 EUR |
Students (incl. PhD students) |
30 EUR |
40 EUR |
Standard fee for all others |
60 EUR |
80 EUR |
Social dinner (optional) |
30 EUR |
30 EUR |
Conference attendance requires prior registration. Students and PhD students will be requested to provide proof of their status at the registration desk. Members of the LDE Centre for Global Heritage and Development are requested to register from a university account.
For registration, go to the Paylogic form.
Accommodation options
Based on availability, the Tulip Inn Leiden Centre offers rooms at a discounted price for the conference participants. Please fill out this form and send it by email to reservations@goldentulipleidencentre.nl.
Additionally, the Tourist Information Centre provides help with finding accommodation in Leiden.
For further information, contact cdh2017@arch.leidenuniv.nl.
We are looking forward to welcoming you in Leiden!