On the afternoon of December 9, 2023, the Key Scientific Research Base of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage of Tsinghua University and the Human Settlements Environment Information Laboratory of Tsinghua University successfully organized an academic forum on "Spatial Information Technology Empowering Cultural Heritage Protection" through offline and online integration (live broadcast on Station B). Eleven experts and scholars from the Cultural Heritage Protection Committee of the China Society of Surveying and Mapping, the Great Wall Society of China, Tsinghua University, Zhengzhou University, Fuzhou University, Southwest Jiaotong University, Yunnan Normal University, Baoji University of Arts and Sciences, Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture and other units focused on the technical system, model method, value interpretation, virtual restoration, platform research and development, The sharing of achievements in typical cases and other aspects aims to explore the road of intelligent protection and development of cultural heritage, help the protection and inheritance of national cultural heritage, and serve the implementation of the strategy of cultural self-confidence and cultural power.
Agenda of the Academic Forum on Spatial Information Technology Empowering Cultural Heritage Protection.
The academic forum was presided over by Professor Dang Anrong, director of the key scientific research base, and Dang Anrong first opened the academic forum with the title of "Spatial Information Technology Empowering the System Framework of Cultural Heritage Protection", followed by ten speakers were Vice President Dong Yao (China Great Wall Society), Zhang Xiangqian Secretary-General (Cultural Heritage Protection Committee of China Society of Surveying and Mapping), Assistant Researcher Chen Yang (Tsinghua University), Associate Professor Liu Hongtao (Southwest Jiaotong University), Professor Yang Yuliang (Yunnan Normal University), Associate Professor Yang Tao (Tsinghua University), Prof Deng Yi (Fuzhou University), Prof. Zhang Junhui (Baoji University of Arts and Sciences), Prof. Chen Longwen (Zhengzhou University), Prof. Hou Miaole (Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture).
Spatial information technology empowers the offline venue of the academic forum on cultural heritage protection.
Professor Dang Anrong's opening report first outlined the policy needs of cultural relics science and technology innovation in 2023 and the research progress of key scientific research bases, and then elaborated the institutional framework of spatial information technology to empower cultural heritage protection through three aspects: "value protection, utilization and inheritance, and implementation path" should be used as the starting point to form a framework for cultural heritage protection demand analysis;Relying on "real space, cyberspace, and cognitive space", the path of digital twin for cultural heritage protection is formedGuided by "value cognition, state assessment, protection and inheritance", the vision of intelligent empowerment of cultural heritage protection has been formed. The framework as a whole involves multiple dimensions such as technology integration and model methods, heritage perception and value cognition, dynamic monitoring and state diagnosis, authentic protection and activation and utilization, cultural and tourism integration and sustainable inheritance.
Spatial information technology empowers the institutional framework of cultural heritage protection (Dang Anrong).
The academic reports of the ten guests combined with the Great Wall National Cultural Park, Tibetan and Qiang watchtowers and villages, the intangible cultural heritage of the Yangtze River Economic Belt, the ancient city of Suzhou CIM, the wooden arcade bridge in Fujian, the ancient human activities of the Neolithic Age, the Sui and Tang Grand Canals, the Yongji Canal and the Qinhe Ancient Road, etc., and shared the digital reproduction and wisdom display of cultural relics protection units, the research and development and application of "one map" of cultural heritage, the digital technology methods of traditional villages of ethnic minorities, and the distribution law of intangible cultural heritage in the Yangtze River Economic Belt. Information technology methods for the protection and revitalization of the ancient city of Suzhou, digital strategies for the protection and revitalization of wooden arcade bridges in Fujian, archaeological research on ancient human activities in the Neolithic period in the western part of the Guanzhong Basin, exploration of the relics of the ancient road of the Yongji Canal and Qinhe River in the Sui-Tang Dynasty, virtual splicing of broken pottery unearthed from ancient tombs, technical exploration of digital protection of cultural heritage, spatial intelligence and application of digital cultural heritage, etc., covering the dynamic monitoring, data analysis, and interpretation of laws of cultural heritage protection using spatial information technology. Value interpretation, evaluation and analysis, state cognition, intelligent management, display and communication, virtual restoration and other aspects reflect the process of spatial information technology empowering cultural heritage protection from "digitalization" to "informatization" to "intelligence", and reflect the progress and trend of spatial information technology in the application of cultural heritage protection.
The intelligent demand for the planning and construction of the Great Wall National Cultural Park (Dong Yaohui).
Research on smart exhibition of the Great Wall National Cultural Park based on digital twin (Chen Yang).
R&D and Application of "One Map" of Cultural Heritage Based on Spatio-temporal Big Data (Zhang Xiangqian).
Exploration of digital protection of Tibetan and Qiang watchtowers and villages in Danba County, Sichuan Province (Liu Hongtao).
Research on the construction of intangible cultural heritage corridor in the Yangtze River Economic Belt based on GIS (Yang Yuliang).
Research and development of CIM platform for the protection and revitalization of the ancient city of Suzhou (Yang Tao).
Research on the Protection and Revitalization Strategy of Fujian Wooden Arcade Bridge Based on Digital Technology (Deng Yi).
A Study on Paleolithic Human Activities and the Evolution of Regional Civilization in the Neolithic in the Western Guanzhong Basin (Zhang Junhui).
Reconfirmation of the relics of the Yongji Canal and the Qinhe River of the Sui-Tang Grand Canal based on remote sensing images (Chen Longwen).
Spatial Intelligence and Activation of Digital Cultural Heritage (Hou Miaole).
Professor Dang Anrong summarized the forum and believed that the core essence of spatial information technology empowering cultural heritage protection displayed in the academic report of the forum can be condensed into three points: "demand cognition is the foundation, spatio-temporal research is the key, and twin empowerment is the goal". (1) Demand cognition is fundamental: Driven by the demand for cultural heritage protection, driven by spatial information technology, the perception of cultural heritage is realized, the information of diverse cultural heritage is obtained, and the heritage information model and information platform are constructed, and demand cognition plays a vital role in the whole process of cultural heritage protection(2) Spatio-temporal research is the key - no matter what type of cultural heritage and how large the scale of cultural heritage, protection and research work should focus on the two dimensions of time and space, which is not only the only way to fully understand the preservation status and protection value of cultural heritage and the premise of carrying out specific protection work, but also the professional requirements of cultural heritage protection for practitioners, and also the eternal topic of cultural heritage protection(3) Twin empowerment is the goal - digital twin cultural heritage not only plays a unique role in the digital protection, restoration, exhibition and inheritance of heritage, but more importantly, it can be activated and empowered through digital twins, strengthen value mining, promote local economic development, enrich people's cultural life, and enhance national cultural self-confidence, which is the ultimate goal of cultural heritage protection, utilization and inheritance.
Group photo of some participants of the academic forum.
The academic forum was organized by the Cultural Heritage Protection Professional Committee of the China Society of Surveying and Mapping and the Key Scientific Research Base of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage (Tsinghua University) for the Application of Spatial Information Technology in Cultural Heritage Protection, with the assistance of Tsinghua University Human Settlements Environment Information Laboratory and Beijing Dice Technology Co., Ltd. and Beijing City Laboratory BCL, and technical support provided by Guojiangcheng and Station B live broadcast platform, with more than 80 offline participants and more than 6,600 online participants from all over the country.