NARRATE, an ERASMUS+ project funded by the EU, focuses on digitally preserving ecclesiastical cultural heritage. Through user-centered surveys, interactive webinars, and major events in Bulgaria and Türkiye, it provides clergy with accessible tools and training, fostering international collaboration for standardised digital documentation.
On 17 February 2025, the online seminar ‘Grotto Digital Twins: Strategies for Documentation, Preservation and Promotion’ brought together over 170 participants from around the world to explore the challenges of describing and modelling underground cultural heritage sites, both natural and man-made.
Join us on February 11th at Castello del Valentino for a seminar on OpenHeritage3D, featuring CIPA President Fulvio Rinaudo and 3D Data Scientist Scott McAvoy. Explore advancements in 3D cultural heritage data accessibility and sharing. Hosted by the PhD Program in Architectural Heritage at Politecnico di Torino, this event highlights innovative heritage documentation initiatives.
The 30th CIPA Symposium is fast approaching! Join us in Seoul, South Korea, from August 25-29, 2025, as we explore this year’s theme: “Heritage Conservation from Bits: From Digital Documentation to Data-driven Heritage Conservation.”
We invite researchers, professionals, and site managers to present at the symposium. Accepted papers will be included in the ISPRS Archives or ISPRS Annals.
The ICOMOS 2024 Annual General Assembly and Scientific Symposium were held in Ouro Preto, Brazil, from November 9–12, organized by ICOMOS Brazil. CIPA was well-represented by members, including President Prof. Fulvio Rinaudo, Comm. III co-chair Em. Prof. Andreas Georgopoulos, and EP members Margarita Skamantzari, Renata Cima Campiotto, and Fabiane R. Savino.
The International Symposium on Cultural Heritage Conservation by Digitalization (CHCD2024) was held from July 16-19, 2024, in Beijing. With the theme Re-Shape, the event featured panels, presentations, digital exhibitions, heritage site excursions, and a Kuche culture gala. Organized by Tsinghua University and CIPA, it marked a decade of collaboration since 2014.
The Siena 3D-ARCH24 Workshop, now in its 10th year, concluded on Feb. 23, 2024. The three-day workshop (Feb. 21-23) was held at the University of Siena and organized by Stefano Campana, Fabio Remondino, and Francesco Fassi. As per tradition, the workshop was under the umbrella of CIPA Heritage Documentation and ISPRS.
To CIPA Members in the Ottawa, Ontario, Canada region:
You are invited to join us for an in-person, special lecture by Joe Kallas, titled Technology-Driven Disaster Response: Insights from the Beirut 2020 Explosion at the Carleton Immersive Media Studio (CIMS) on Thursday, February 29th at 3:00 pm. The lecture is being hosted in collaboration by CIMS and CIPA Heritage Documentation.
The 3rd Unmanned Aerial Systems in Geomatics (UASG 2023) for 2023 has been organized in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on 21-22 November 2023 (https://www.iitr.ac.in/uasg2023/). The conference was organized by IIT Roorkee, Dept of Civil Engineering who organized the first two editions of this conference and the Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM.
During the biannual symposium held in Florence this June, CIPA Heritage Documentation proudly announced the appointment of Prof. Mario Santana Quintero as its Honorary President. The prestigious honor was presented to him by the current president, Stratos Stylianidis, in recognition of Mario’s exceptional dedication, leadership, and invaluable contributions to the heritage documentation community.