Open Science and Preserving the Digital Cultural Heritage

Abstract

Cultural heritage is increasingly important in the modern world, not only as an important part of both collective and individual identity, but also as a significant economic resource in the tourism industry. Enabling efficient and simple access to digital representations of relevant artefacts is among the most valuable missions of a modern museum or institution of culture. In this paper we present the system that enables the users to generate highly detailed digital reconstructions of real-world objects from a series of photographs through the use of Structure from Motion approach. The system is containerized and suitable for both standalone and hosted use. In order to increase the long term value of the system we use open science principles and open-source software.