Descripción del proyecto
Una nueva forma de explorar y experimentar el patrimonio de la seda
El antiguo patrimonio europeo de la seda fue en su día símbolo de progreso e innovación. Ahora está al borde de la extinción. A pesar de las iniciativas de los museos especializados, la falta de recursos y de redes dificulta una conservación eficaz. El equipo del proyecto SILKNOW, financiado con fondos europeos, creará un sistema informático inteligente denominado «Virtual Loom». En concreto, modelará digitalmente antiguas técnicas de tejido. Este método innovador permitirá a los usuarios explorar y experimentar el patrimonio de la seda mediante simulaciones visuales y tangibles. Las herramientas de búsqueda avanzada, el reconocimiento visual automático y el acceso multilingüe a los datos digitales mejorarán la experiencia del usuario. El equipo multidisciplinar de SILKNOW, formado por expertos en diversos ámbitos, trata de tender puentes entre la conservación del patrimonio y las necesidades de los museos, la educación y el turismo.
Objetivo
Silk was a major factor for progress in Europe, mostly along the Western Silk Road’s network of production and market centres. Silk trade also allowed for exchange of ideas and innovations. Punched cards were first used in Jacquard silk looms, long before modern computers were even imagined. Today, too, fashion and high-end textile industries have a huge impact in the EU, reaching €525 billion in annual turnover. Silk, however, has become a seriously endangered heritage. Although many European specialized museums are devoted to its preservation, they usually lack size and resources to establish networks or connections with other collections. SILKNOW aims to produce an intelligent computational system that goes beyond current technologies in order to improve our understanding of European silk heritage. This legacy will be studied, showcased and preserved through the digital modelling of its weaving techniques (a “Virtual Loom”). Users will access the resulting information through visual and tangible simulations, and experience vastly enhanced search tools, providing better results through automatic visual recognition, advanced spatio-temporal visualization, multilingual and semantically enriched access to existing digital data. Thus, SILKNOW will improve the understanding of EU heritage and its rich diversity, applying next-generation ICT research to the needs of various users (museums, education, tourism, creative industries, media…), and preserving an intangible heritage (ancient weaving techniques) for younger generations. Its research activities and outputs will have direct impact in computer science and big data management, focusing on searching digital content in heterogeneous, multilingual and multimodal databases. SILKNOW will be possible only with the close cooperation of a multidisciplinary team, including areas as ICT, text analytics, image processing, semantics, big data, 3D printing, art history, terminology, textile fabrication and conservation.
Ámbito científico
Programa(s)
- H2020-EU.3.6. - SOCIETAL CHALLENGES - Europe In A Changing World - Inclusive, Innovative And Reflective Societies Main Programme
- H2020-EU.3.6.3.1. - Study European heritage, memory, identity, integration and cultural interaction and translation, including its representations in cultural and scientific collections, archives and museums, to better inform and understand the present by richer interpretations of the past
Convocatoria de propuestas
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H2020-SC6-CULT-COOP-2017-two-stage
Régimen de financiación
RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinador
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