Studies in Digital Heritage: Announcements

Blog post: SDH has ANVUR recognition for scientific assessment in Italy

2023-06-28T12:01:02-04:00

Due to the numerous inquiries from the Italian authors, worried about the potential usefulness of SDH articles for their scientific assessment in their national academic evaluations, it is worth remembering that since 2021 Studies in Digital Heritage has been a scientific journal certified by the Italian National Agency for the Evaluation of Universities and Research Institutes (ANVUR) for the following disciplinary areas:

8 - Civil Engineering and Architecture

10 - Antiquities, philological-literary and historical-artistic sciences

11 - Historical, philosophical, pedagogical, and psychological sciences

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From: riviste@anvur.it

Subject: Esito valutazione istanza per la rivista STUDIES IN DIGITAL HERITAGE (2574-1748)

Date: 23 July 2021 at 11:55:28 CEST

To: gabriele.guidi@polimi.it

Reply-To: riviste@anvur.it

Egregio Direttore/Editore,

con riferimento a quanto indicato in oggetto

- ESAMINATA l'istanza di classificazione presentata attraverso l'apposita interfaccia CINECA entro il 27 ottobre 2020, secondo le modalita' e i criteri di cui al Regolamento ANVUR per la Classificazione delle riviste nelle Aree non bibliometriche, approvato con Delibera del Consiglio Direttivo n. 42 del 20/2/2019;

- TERMINATA l'istruttoria e acquisiti eventuali pareri di esperti esterni qualificati nei rilevanti settori concorsuali;

- VISTA la Delibera del Consiglio Direttivo n. 155 del 14 luglio 2021.

Le comunico che l'istanza da Lei presentata soddisfa i requisiti richiesti nelle aree e/o settori sotto indicati:

Area: 8

Esito riconoscimento scientificità: Sì

Area: 10

Esito riconoscimento scientificità: Sì

Area: 11

Esito riconoscimento scientificità: Sì

Distinti saluti,

Il Dirigente Area Ricerca ANVUR

Dott. Marco Malgarini

Blog post: A SDH special issue pre-selected for the "Compasso d'Oro" (Golden Compass) prize

2020-09-12T14:48:51-04:00

This year the special issue of "Studies in Digital Heritage" dedicated to the topic, "Perceiving Cultural Heritage through Digital Technologies" (volume 3, issue 1), was included in the ADI Design Index, representing pre-selection as a candidate for the "Compasso d'Oro" (Golden Compass) prize.
The "Compasso d'Oro" is a prestigious award bestowed by the Industrial Design Association (ADI) located in Milan (Italy) on the most important contributions to the field of Design.
One might object, “how is Design related to Digital Heritage?” If so, please read on….
The selected issue provides an analysis of the enhanced level of interaction between a human being and an ancient masterpiece when mediated by technologies such as Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR), presenting suggestions about how the VR or AR language could effectively work in actual applications. Several different aspects were treated, including a broad set of disciplines such as engineering, archeology, art history, and the neurosciences, with an analysis that aims to create the building blocks of a language for communicating art and cultural heritage through virtual technologies. This is precisely what a designer needs to create effective VR and AR applications in museums or other sites of cultural interest.
Although based in Italy, this award is well known on the international level.
On September 9, 2020, the award ceremony occurred. In the end, our journal did not win, but the great honor of having been selected remains. To recognize this result, involving having passed a thorough review by several different committees, a physical copy of the selected special issue has been put on display at the new Design Museum in the Milan headquarters of ADI.