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Mount Rushmore in South Dakota, US, was scanned by CyArk in 2010. The memorial suffers fracturing and cracking because of the fi neness of the granite
67 panoramic images, a detailed site map, 3D laser scan data and virtual fl y-throughs. With a lot of sites it’s something that comes out of the discussion we have with the site operators. If there’s a need and it can be benefi cial, we try to get it done.
What partners do you have? We’ve worked with a number of museums. We’ve started a research and development project with the British Museum looking at similar technology to scan collections to better document and interpret them. Other museums we’ve worked with are more about showcasing the content in a museum setting. We’ve done some work with the Ars Electronica museum in Austria, doing life-size 3D projections of a handful of the sites within our archive.
How easy is getting access to sites? If there was one body that could control access to all the sites, that would make things a lot easier, but the reality is that we have to work with different national and local governments and organisations that manage the sites. We spend a good amount of time co-ordinating things with the site authorities or representatives to get the access that we need. Those meetings also help us establish what output they would like to see for their site.
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The Fort Laramie app for iPhone and iPad augments the on-site experience, providing audio and virtual access to off-bounds areas
How many projects have you mapped? We’ve got 130 sites to date in the archive and we launched an initiative last year called the CyArk 500 with the objective of scanning 500 sites over the next fi ve years.
Would you do underwater mapping? That technology is really exciting and getting better all the time. Applying underwater mapping tech to things like shipwrecks and submerged cities is possible. We don’t have any projects in the works right now but we would love to.
As for the documentation, does that get digitised? There’s always a big effort to capture additional photographic information and historic data and narratives. All that’s archived digitally so we can easily share it.
What is the overarching aim of CyArk? Is it to present history, to preserve it? Or both? It’s both. The primary focus is on preserving it. The focus is on going out and getting that information in the archive to preserve it. If we don’t have that record it’s very hard to interpret down the road. If we have that record we can always add to it, but if it’s not here in the fi rst place we’re in danger of losing a piece of our history.
Have you entered sites where an element of danger is present? There’s a huge need to capture information in these areas. Ideally we’d capture information before a confl ict arises. We haven’t had much experience going into active confl ict zones because it’s just too dangerous. We’ve gone into higher-risk areas to capture information but there’s a line between high risk and active zones. In 2010 a team went to Babylon, Iraq, an area that was still fairly risky, but it was safe enough to do the capture. We’ve also done recent work in Somaliland as well.
Do you have any other comments? We’re very interested to see how this data can be used in other applications and we really want to call on people to participate in the CyArk 500 by nominating sites. ●
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