Special Issue of “Digital Applications in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage” on digital color by Elsevier

Color is an important and complex feature of heritage items, fundamental in Cultural Heritage preservation and valorization, as well as a crucial feature to characterize and digitize.

This issue wants to address and explore all the topics and issues related to the use of color in heritage preservation in art history, archaeology and museum contexts, like e.g. color analysis in terms of materials and conservation, digital/virtual/3D rendering, virtual restoration, color acquisition, spectral-color conversion, metameric mismatch, dissemination, storage, multidisciplinary approaches, advanced technologies.

Original research, case studies and short reviews will focus on the challenges, issues and new perspectives in heritage science associated with color studies of ancient and modern artefacts.

Keywords

Cultural Heritage applications:

• Color
• Pigments
• Heritage science
• Colorimetry
• Digital rendering
• 3D modelling
• Digital color
• Metameric mismatch
• Color appearance

For any inquiries about the appropriateness of contribution topics, please contact Dr. Sofia Ceccarelli via sofia.ceccarelli@ispc.cnr.it