Call for Papers Franz Xaver PFAFFENBICHLER | Lothar EYSN(City of Vienna, Austria) Keywords: Smart City Vienna, ViennaGIS, Digital City Map, Digital Twin, Wien gibt Raum, Open Data, WienBot, Kappazunder, Artificial Intelligence Call: The City of Vienna and its departments use digital data, tools and artificial intelligence as part of a common digitization strategy for applications to conserve resources and maintain the high quality of life. Using cutting edge technologies and analytical methods, the data are processed to support governmental decisions and may form the basis of a future Digital Twin. Due to the setup and use of novel digital tools, Vienna is a pioneer in the field of Open Government and enables participation as well as transparent processes. Vienna’s strong Open Government Data (OGD) directive means, that the city makes figures and data available for public and free use. Hundreds of data records provide detailed information about one-way streets, real-time information of the public transport, historical aerial images, archaeological data, measurement data for air pollutants or WLAN locations, to name just a few areas.One example beyond others is the program „Wien gibt Raum“ and it’s related concept for an innovative management of a major city’s public space using a large scale mobile mapping campaign.This campaign is carried out by the Department of Surveying and Mapping, and deals with the acquisition of high quality geodata (georeferenced digital images and 3D data) within the entire city.These data are anonymized and made available to the departments of the City of Vienna in a web-based image data service (Kappazunder).Based on these data, existing objects within the public space can be inspected or surveyed, and may be analysed using artificial intelligence. In the future, these data may also be a sufficient input to feed the idea of a Digital Twin.The City of Vienna takes over in many areas of ICT the pioneer task for the future. In this session we will show some examples of high tech solutions generated by the City of Vienna and also our new Digital City Map. Submission (open until July 31, 2020)Mind the...

Call for Papers Piotr KUROCZYNSKI (Hochschule Mainz – University of Applied Sciences, Germany) Keywords: 3D models, data modelling, human- and machine-readable documentation standards Call: The session is dedicated to the accelerating amount of digital 3d data of cultural heritage. The development of ICT, in particular the fast network/internet connection, the CPU supported computer graphic and the WebGL technology, allow new access to 3d content. The 3d repositories, like sketchfab.com, provide and support the web-based visualization of the 3d models. Since 2018 the 3d upload is supported via commons.wikimedia.org in Wikipedia, too. The urgent question how to describe the 3d models in a data model behind the geometry in a way to be human- and machine-readable is still to be clarified in the scientific community. In the civil engineering the BIM method have been introduced and facilitates the whole planning and construction process, based on the 3d coordination model. The historic/heritage BIM investigates the possibility to capture and document the build cultural heritage in the exchange data model, called Industry Foundation Classes (ISO 16739-1:2018). In the digital and spatial humanities several approaches were undertaken to fill the information gap through the adaption and integration of CIDOC CRM (ISO 21127:2014) and the development of virtual research environments. The projects reveal great potential for the 3d data set annotation and semantic enrichment as well as the web-based visualization but there are still missing approved standard and applied methodology how to prepare digital 3d research data for subsequent computational operation, amongst other things the artificial intelligence. The session wants to present and discuss various methods for data enrichments as well as human- and machine-readable standards and invites colleagues from the wide field of archaeology, art and architecture history as well as civil engineering, computer graphic and computer sciences. Submission (open April 15, 2020)Mind the...

Digital technologies in the fight against illicit trafficking in antiquities and the looting of cultural heritage Call for Papers Michaela REINFELD (1) | Arianna TRAVIGLIA (2) | David WIGG-WOLF (1) ((1) Römisch-Germanische Kommission / (2) IIT Centre for Cultural Heritage Technology (CCHT@Ca’Foscari)) Keywords: illicit trafficking, looting, illegal trade networks, digital technologies Call: Museums, research institutions, monument protection services and ministries, universities and law enforcement agencies have developed different strategies and methods to identify stolen artifacts, to prove illegal antiquities trade and to discover and monitor looting activities. Digital technologies are an increasingly important part of the work. They not only facilitate the collection and documentation of endangered cultural heritage they also allow a targeted search for stolen or commercially available objects as well as the identification of illegal excavations in the field. The session is organized in the context of the H2020 NETcher project (NETwork and social platform for Cultural Heritage Enhancing and Rebuilding) and aims to connect researchers, institutions and authorities who are committed to the fight against the illegal trade in antiquities. For this reason, we look forward to contributions from law enforcement authorities, police, academics and young researchers on the topics: Artificial intelligence / machine learning for the search of stolen or illegally traded artifactsDigital technologies for the virtual preservation of endangered cultural heritage (e.g. 3D scanning or photo modelling of objects)Databases for the documentation of endangered or stolen cultural heritageRemote sensing for the discovery and monitoring of lootingTools for identifying and tracking illegal trade networks on the internet or social networks Other digital technologies to research and fight against illicit trafficking in antiquities Submission (open April 15, 2020)Mind the...