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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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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Workshop “Heritage at Risk and Digital Responses” in Cyprus Institute on February 26, 2025
The main goal of the proposed event, co-organised by the Cyprus Institute and the Institut Français de Chypre, under the auspices of the French Embassy in Nicosia, is to publicly present themes and recent advancements in tackling the challenges facing the broader topic of Heritage at Risk in Cyprus and discuss joint ways and strategies… …
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Call for papers in Heritage special issue Advanced Data Environment in Current Cultural Heritage 3D Digitization Practices
A special issue of the open-access journal Heritage published by MDPI will focus on Advanced Data Environment in Current Cultural Heritage 3D Digitization Practices.It will be edited by Marco Gaiani and Anthony Pamart. This Special Issue will welcome manuscripts that link the following themes : – 3D data capture for manageable heritage data&#…
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Best Paper Award at the SUMAC 2024 Workshop at the ACM MULTIMEDIA Conference in Melbourne
SUMAC 2024 was held in conjunction with the ACM MULTIMEDIA conference in Melbourne, Australia, from 28 October to 1 November 2024. The sixth version of the SUMAC (analySis, Understanding and proMotion of heritAge Contents) workshop, like its predecessors, focuses on analyzing, processing and valorizing all types of data related to cultural heritage…
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