The MAP laboratory is a Proprietary Research Unit (UPR) of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Humanities and Social Sciences, created in 2024 and a descendant of a Joint Research Unit of the same name, UMR CNRS/MC 3495 MAP. Its activities intersect two emerging interdisciplinary fields, heritage sciences and data sciences, and focus on the design and development of ‘highly digital’ methods for exploring and analysing heritage assets. One of the distinctive traits of the laboratory’s approach is a recurrent to-and-fro between theoretical, methodological and technological research and the implementation of concrete solutions in the form of research prototypes open to academic and societal partnerships.
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VR tour of the prisons of the Citadel of Marseille for the European Heritage Days 2025
For the second consecutive year, the MAP laboratory will be participating to the European Heritage Days 2025 at the Citadel of Marseille. This event will take place on Saturday 20 September from 12 pm to 7 pm. A virtual tour of the cells used to hold military prisoners will immerse participants in these spaces, which… Read More »H…
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Participation in the CIPA 2025 international conference
The 30th edition of the CIPA International Symposium will take place from 25 to 29 August 2025 in Seoul, South Korea. CIPA is one of the oldest International Scientific Committees of ICOMOS (International Council of Monuments and Sites), jointly founded in 1968 with ISPRS (International Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensi…
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Participation in the Digital Heritage 2025 international conference
The 4th edition of the Digital Heritage (DH) World Congress & Expo will take place from September 8-13, 2025, in Siena, Italy. This international congress focuses on digital technologies applied to the documentation, conservation, and sharing of heritage—both tangible and intangible. Members of the MAP laboratory will be involved in this congre…
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Antoine Gros’s thesis defence ‘Towards a collaborative digital environment for multimodal analysis of structural behaviour’ on 2 April 2025
On 2 April 2025, Antoine Gros, co-supervised by ENSAL, defended his thesis entitled ‘Towards a collaborative digital environment for multimodal analysis of structural behaviour’, (doctoral school 432 Sciences et métiers de l’ingénieur – SMI). Summary of the thesis: Assessing the stability of a built structure and gaining a good understa…
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Presentation at the Mate-shs network annual conference on 15 and 16 May
The twelfth annual conference of the Mate-shs network will be held on 15 and 16 May in Aix-en-Provence, on the premises of the Maison méditerranéenne des sciences de l’homme.The theme will be ‘Making the most of data, results and codes: management, sharing and accessibility’. The first half-day session will look at the use of data…&nbs…
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