Graphic Languages and Digital Tools for Communicating and Sharing Heritage

Abstract

Today languages and digital tools for communicating and sharing heritage seem more and more strictyly connectcted to digital issues. Much has been done as concerns 3D models embedded in GIS, i.e. employed to document archeological sites and architectural heritage, and more broadly used for increasing tourist attraction places. Anyway maybe it’s possible to go further in achieving a kind of heritage representation ever more addressed to non-specialist persons too, to laypeople. In such perspective, which goes beyond the boundaries of applied reserach in order to reach social and cultural goals, the mixed use of ICT and web allows to outline new interesting scenarios for heritage, in accordance with EU policies. The field of heritage representation is therefore still mostly to be investigated, both as regards employing media in portable devices, and as concerns apps for Augmented and Virtual Reality, last but not least for interactive use in georeferred maps.