Colour and Space in Cultural Heritage: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Documentation of Material Culture
Résumé
Colour and Space in Cultural Heritage (www.COSCH.info) is a transdomain European Action (TD1201) in the area of Materials, Physics
and Nanosciences (MPNS). The Action runs from 2013 to 2017 and benefits from the support of the European Cooperation in Science
and Technology http://www.cost.eu/domains_actions/mpns/Actions/TD1201. The Authors are active participants of the COSCH network. They represent different disciplines involved in documentation and conservation of material cultural heritage. COSCH aims to enhance applications of
optical measuring techniques and electronic imaging in this area. The paper outlines scientific, theoretical and practical solutions promoted
by COSCH. COSCH activities have been organised around six main subjects: (1) spectral object documentation; (2) spatial object
documentation; (3) algorithms and procedures; (4) analysis and restoration of cultural heritage surfaces and objects; (5) visualisation
of cultural heritage objects and its dissemination; and (6) the semantic development of the COSCH Knowledge Representation.
The Authors indicate future work that is needed to resolve the identified scientific, technical and semantic questions, as well as
challenges of interdisciplinary communication, to ensure a wider adoption of specialist technologies and enhanced standards in 3D
documentation of material cultural heritage — being a basis for its understanding, conservation, restoration, long-term preservation,
study, presentation and wide dissemination.