Communicating Hidden Archaeological Monuments and Heritage Landscapes to Different Audiences through Advanced Digital Technologies

英国- irl研究人员和合作伙伴网络的目标是通过数字文档和可视化来解决发现隐藏的考古景观、建筑和纪念碑的挑战。遗产景观可能会被隐藏起来，因为它们的重要性根本没有得到承认，或者因为对它们的了解只有专家才知道，而没有向公众传播。通过向具有社会包容性的公众传播新知识，可以看到对知识交流的变革性影响。该网络包括来自布拉德福德大学、阿伯丁大学、NUI高威大学和科克大学学院的考古学家和遗产科学家。英国的合作伙伴是苏格兰历史环境部。IRL的国家合作伙伴包括国家纪念碑管理局、爱尔兰国家博物馆和探索计划。联合国教科文组织世界地质公园布伦和莫赫悬崖、布伦艺术学院、卡赫康奈尔中心、克莱尔郡议会、威克洛郡议会和卡洛考古和历史学会是地区和当地的合作伙伴，独立艺术家萨拉·奥康纳（Sarah O'Connor）提供了重要意见。研究人员、合作伙伴和参与者将通过三个讲习班和一个公开研讨会来发展这个项目。五个独立的考古景观，在威克洛郡的拉斯加尔和克莱尔郡的伯伦，被选中来展示这个项目。一系列数字文档和可视化技术将在以下隐藏元素上进行试验：(1)与青铜时代新社会精英有关的未开发的Rathgall hillfort定居景观；(2)特罗山（Turlough Hill）的大型围场/长石堆，是新石器时代和青铜时代Burren举行仪式聚会的重要场所；(3) Caherconnell中世纪聚落围场的考古发掘文物/其多时期景观设置；(4)未知的北部铜器时代-早期青铜器时代的农场景观，田野墙和罗文山的仪式纪念碑；(5)位于布伦大西洋沿岸的图穆林（Toomullin）的一座中世纪晚期建筑，可能隐藏着一所兄弟法学院的身份。我们能够生成的关于过去人类活动的物质遗迹的叙述，往往受到个人和社区曾经生活过的地方的片面和破碎观点的限制。数字技术有可能扩展和发展现有的地方故事，并可以为过去建筑环境的既定观点带来新的叙述。鼓励在不同领域工作的人们，特别是在创意产业的人们响应和使用通过该网络活动产生的3D图像和可视化将是该项目的一个重要方面。爱尔兰国家博物馆、布伦艺术学院（BCA）和独立艺术家Sarah O'Connor将为这个创造性的过程做出贡献，在布伦和威克洛的风景中重新想象过去。该项目还将为来自爱尔兰大学和昆士兰大学的研究生提供培训机会，他们将被邀请参加技术试验和公开研讨会。在考古学和人文学科中使用数字文献有可能通过动态、灵活和可访问的交付模式，激发新的和代表性不足的用户群体的兴趣，包括年轻人、残疾人或其他社会弱势群体。遗产和旅游企业也可以通过使用引人入胜/沉浸式混合（虚拟和增强）现实内容的当地古迹/景观，并通过创建复制品和相关文物的3D打印来促进经济机会。该网络将通过互动网站、电影和其他艺术媒体、3D可视化、混合现实、纪念碑和文物的3D打印以及同行评审的期刊文章来分享知识。

The aim of the Network of UK-IRL researchers and partners is to address the challenges of uncovering hidden archaeological landscapes, buildings and monuments through digital documentation and visualisation. Heritage landscapes may remain hidden because their significance is simply not recognised or because knowledge of them is specific to specialists and not conveyed to the public. The transformative effect on knowledge exchange will be seen through communicating new knowledge to a socially inclusive public audience.The network includes archaeologists and heritage scientists from the University of Bradford, University of Aberdeen, NUI Galway and University College Cork. The UK partner is Historic Environment Scotland. IRL national partners include the National Monuments Service, the National Museum of Ireland and the Discovery Programme. The Burren and Cliffs of Moher UNESCO Global Geopark, the Burren College of Art, the Caherconnell Centre, Clare County Council, Wicklow County Council and the Carlow Archaeological and Historical Society are the regional and local partners, with key input from independent artist Sarah O'Connor. Researchers, partners and participants will develop the project through three workshops and a public symposium.Five discrete archaeological landscapes, in Rathgall, Co. Wicklow and the Burren, Co Clare, have been selected to showcase the project. A range of digital documentation and visualisation technologies will be trialled on hidden elements of (1) the unexplored settled landscape of Rathgall hillfort linked with a new Bronze Age social elite; (2) a large enclosure/ long cairn on Turlough Hill, a highly significant place for ritual gatherings in Neolithic and Bronze Age Burren; (3) artefacts from archaeological excavations at the medieval settlement enclosure of Caherconnell/ its multi-period landscape setting; (4) the unknown northern extent of the Chalcolithic - Early Bronze Age landscape of farms, field walls, and ritual monuments at Roughan Hill; and (5) a late medieval building which may have a hidden identity as a brehon law school, at Toomullin on the Atlantic coast of Burren. The narratives that we can generate about the material remains of human activity in the past is often limited by partial and broken views of the places in which individuals and communities once went about their lives. Digital technologies have the potential to extend and develop existing stories of places and can bring new narratives to bear on established views of the meaning of past built environments. Encouraging people working in different fields, especially in the creative industries to respond to and use 3D imagery and visualisation produced through the activities of this network will be an important dimension of the project. The National Museum of Ireland, the Burren College of Art (BCA) and independent artist, Sarah O'Connor will contribute to this creative process of reimagining the past in landscapes of the Burren and Wicklow. The project will also be a training opportunity for postgraduate students from Irish universities and QUB who will be invited to attend the technology trials and the public symposium. The use of digital documentation within archaeology and the humanities has the potential to stimulate interest from new and under-represented user groups - including young, disabled or otherwise disadvantaged sections in society - using dynamic, flexible and accessible delivery modes. Economic opportunities for heritage and tourism enterprises may also be promoted by the use of engaging/ immersive mixed (virtual and augmented) reality content of local monuments/ landscapes and by the creation of replicas and 3D prints of associated artefacts. The network will share knowledge through an interactive website, film and other artistic media together with 3D visualisation, mixed reality, and 3D prints of monuments and artefacts and a peer-reviewed journal article.