Basic issues and research directions of the digital restoration of the Great Wall

  • role: First author第一作者
  • Affiliation:

    School of Architecture and Urban Planning, Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Beijing 100044, China

    Key Laboratory for Architectural Heritage Fine Reconstruction & Health Monitoring, Beijing 100044, China

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LI Zongfei14,  
  • role: Corresponding author通信作者
  • Affiliation:

    School of Geomatics and Urban Spatial Informatics, Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Beijing 100044, China

    Key Laboratory for Architectural Heritage Fine Reconstruction & Health Monitoring, Beijing 100044, China

  • Email:dongyouqiang.@bucea.edu.cn
  • Introduction:1988E-mail dongyouqiang.@bucea.edu.cn
DONG Youqiang24*,  
  • Affiliation:

    School of Geomatics and Urban Spatial Informatics, Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Beijing 100044, China

    Key Laboratory for Architectural Heritage Fine Reconstruction & Health Monitoring, Beijing 100044, China

HOU Miaole24,  
  • Affiliation:

    School of Geomatics and Urban Spatial Informatics, Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Beijing 100044, China

    Institute of Science and Technology Development, Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Beijing 100044, China

    Key Laboratory for Architectural Heritage Fine Reconstruction & Health Monitoring, Beijing 100044, China

WANG Jian234,  
  • Affiliation:

    Beijing Digsur Science and Technology Co., Ltd, Beijing 100012, China

XIN Taiqi5

resumen

Digitization is one of the most important means of spreading heritage values. Nowadays, as one of the symbols of ancient civilization, the Great Wall of China has a great and irreplaceable historical research value, especially in military architecture, technology, and art. In the long-term development of the digital protection of cultural heritage, people have been paying more attention to the digital restoration of movable cultural relics, such as artifacts, calligraphy, painting, manuscripts, and immovable cultural relics, including large Buddhist shrines and murals. However, studies on the digital restoration of the Great Wall ruins remain scant.On the basis of the value demand of the Great Wall protection and the research foundation of digital restoration, this study argues that authentic evidence is the key factor affecting scientific restoration and puts forward the criterion that the digital restoration of the Great Wall should be consistent with the “original appearance” and “authenticity” of the Great Wall. This paper summarizes the basic concepts of the digital restoration of the Great Wall and puts forward the general ideas of the Great Wall digital restoration in terms of domain knowledge, evidence transformation, evidence fusion, semantic modeling to knowledge service. This paper also discusses the three basic problems of the digital restoration of the Great Wall, namely, the cognition of the Great Wall, data collection, evidence conversion, and the concept and implementation of restoration. Aiming at these basic problems, three research directions are proposed, that is, knowledge construction in the field of Great Wall digital restoration, key technologies of digital restoration, and knowledge service. The construction of the knowledge of the Great Wall deepens the cognitive category of the Great Wall. The key technologies are the implementation of spatial geographic information 3S technology, deep learning, and semantic modeling. The knowledge service of the digital restoration of the Great Wall can provide services for the sustainable preventive protection of the Great Wall, experts, and the public. Finally, taking Nine Eyes Watchtower an example, the restoration results under the framework of digital restoration are introduced.The results of the digital restoration of the Great Wall are not absolute. Its greatest advantage is that it can accept the public's judgment and the emergence of new evidence at any time, rendering the digital restoration of the Great Wall as a dynamic and open research process. The significance lies in the integration of multi-disciplinary advantages, showing the restoration process of the Great Wall to different groups, such as departments, experts and scholars, and the public; Furthermore, from the perspective of the protection of the Great Wall, digital restoration is a supplement to the strategy of “original site protection and original state protection,” respecting physical protection and giving full play to the advantages of digital means. The digital restoration framework can not only provide a scientific, humanistic, and feasible scheme for the digital restoration of the Great Wall, but also provide a new reference for the restoration of other ancient sites.

palabra clave

The Great Wall;remote sensing;multi-source data;evidence;semantic;digital restoration framework;the Nine Eyes Watchtower

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