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3.4 Priority for portable systems as benchmarks 
3.4.1 e-heritage also envisages greater focus on the 
advantages of portable PC technology on the work-site 
foocumentation, project-management and decision-support 
purposes. 
3.4.2 Thousands of heritage workers across Europe would 
benefit from the creation and use of a common structured (but 
multi-language enabled) software package that would also be 
capable of linking up with and uploading/downloading data 
with the larger databases harboured within state institutions. 
4. SPECIFIC DELIVERABLES FOR E-HERITAGE 
4.1 Delivering the ICT infrastructure 
4.1.1 The concrete deliverables outlined above require a 
basic ICT infrastructure to be put in place as well as a concerted 
design and development effort. 
4.1.2 For much of the basic ICT infrastructure, e-heritage 
will depend on the level of ICT development at the national 
level in participating countries, but part of the infrastructure 
may be developed and delivered as part of the e-heritage 
project, where it is perceived that awaiting provision of 
broadband communications facilities by third-parties would 
hold up the project for an unreasonable length of time. 
4.1.3 The first phase of e-heritage would seek to build upon 
the success of the IKONOS project which currently links 
Euromed countries such as Algeria, Jordan, Greece, Morocco, 
Malta and the Netherlands. The objective here would be, over 
a period of 18 months, to install SEVC facilities in participating 
institutions in France, Poland, Hungary, Czech republic and 
Slovenia. This would nearly double the IKONOS consortium 
to 12 countries. It is important to emphasise that the facilities 
and common infrastructure already established in IKONOS 
would be extended to these other countries. 
4.1.4 The second part of this first phase would see the 
establishment of e-heritage pedagogic co-ordinators in each 
centre and the installation of e-learning management software 
in each country to enable tutors from each country to give on 
line tutorial support. 
4.2 Laser scanning & photogrammetry part of new degree 
4.2.1 The discussion at the CIPA Working Group 6 
Workshop and the ISPRS Commission V Seminar in Corfu in 
September 2002 included mention of the need to set up a 
Working Group on Education for Heritage Documentation. 
This was in turn prompted by the need to train CHDS in the 
various new sciences and techniques now available thanks to 
development in ICT, a type of training which is currently not 
being provided by most universities. 
4.2.2 The second phase of the e-heritage project therefore 
responds to these training requirements and envisages the 
launch of the first B.Doc (Hons) course on-line. Here, Europe’s 
first degree course on Documentation of Cultural Heritage 
would be delivered across the e-heritage network. 
4.2.3 This part of the project would not only use the SEVC 
facilities established through IKONOS but would also build 
upon Malta’s national investment in technology for 
documentation of Cultural Heritage. MCR has developed 
TheaLasermetry (fusing laser scanning, digital photogrammetry 
and theodolite total station technologies) and this, together with 
Digital Photography for Cultural Heritage, Radiography etc will 
be taught across the network. 
4.2.4 Students following the course in a number of countries 
will then undertake stages across various parts of the network 
learning how to use various parts of the technology hands-on 
for the field-work and then learning and practicing the post 
processing techniques in the computer laboratories in the 
participating institutions. 
4.2.5 MCR has already been involved in the testing of 
prototypes of laser scanners and continuously provides up-dates 
to functional requirements to leading manufacturers. 
Participation by industry at this stage of e-heritage would also 
ensure that the currently available European technology is up 
dated and tested in the field through close collaboration with 
the demanding cultural heritage sector. 
4.3 An M.Sc degree through distributed E-learning 
4.3.1 The third phase of the e-heritage project would see the 
launch of a degree M.Sc Conservation Science across the new 
platform where the teaching uses SEVC and e-learning 
software established in Phase 1. 
4.3.2 Practicum would be undertaken in the laboratories of 
participating institutions and stages across the network, on the 
same model as that established for the B.Doc (Hons) 
programme outlined above. 
4.4 Establishment of the e-heritage repository service 
4.4.1 The first three stages of the project described above 
will make e-heritage a reality primarily for institutional users 
and students within the network. The fourth stage aims at 
extending the “anytime, anywhere” reality to individuals, sole 
practitioners, SMEs and field workers through the creation of a 
new on-line database system. This database provides a triple 
facility: 
4.4.1.1 The HerlTage database will permit all 
conservation project data held by a public institution or SME, 
including 2D and 3D images to be stored, managed and 
accessed, on-line real-time if so required; 
4.4.1.2 Sole practitioners and SMEs, as well as other 
institutions will be able to register and maintain a security copy 
of their conservation project data on the HerlTage system thus 
ensuring that they are enjoying complete off-site back-up for 
their valuable project data. 
For details about IKONOS visit www.ikonosheritage.org