Proceedings 18 th International Symposium CIPA 2001 
Potsdam (Germany), September 18 - 21, 2001 
THE SLOVENIAN EXPERIENCE: 
THE IZMERE RECORDINGS NATIONAL PROJECT 
Jovo Grobovsek* 
Head of the Conservation Centre 
within the National Cultural Heritage Office 
Chairs the national committee ICOMOS/SI 
Institute of the Republic of Slovenia 
for the Protection of Cultural Heritage 
Cankarjeva 4, P.O.B. 1571, SI - 1001 Ljubljana, Slovenia 
Phone: +386 1 200 81 50, Fax: +386 1 200 81 60 
E-mail: jovo.grobovsek@gov.si 
KEY WORDS: Protection of Cultural Heritage, Recording Cultural Heritage, Photogrammetry in Monument Protection Practice 
ABSTRACT 
The monument protection office in Slovenia chose the national level for the first planned documentation of objects and areas that 
represent cultural heritage. A report by the coordinator of the national project, entitled IZMERE /RECORDINGS/, examines the 
plan, its organisation, its execution and the results achieved so far. 
Verification of the procedures for documenting items of cultural heritage has been coordinated with the implementation of an overall 
catalogue of cultural heritage in the central heritage register, and with the first complete review of existing graphic documentation, 
both in the INDOK state administrative centre and in seven regional institutes involved in protection of the natural and cultural 
heritage. 
The work carried out so far within the IZMERE project (1991 to 2000) has succeeded in realising the selection of qualified 
contractors, choosing the coordinating development institution, designating the responsible staff in regional monument protection 
offices and planning the system of further training for personnel involved in conservation and restoration. Particularly significant 
was the decision to select the Geodetic Institute of Slovenia (former Geodesy and Photogrammetry Institute at the University of 
Ljubljana Faculty of Geodesy and Civil Engineering) as the coordinating development institution. Direct links between the needs of 
monument protection and experts in new developments in photogrammetry have proved to be effective. The cases selected varied 
hugely, requiring great innovation on the part of contractors, but the problems were successfully addressed. 
Despite the small amount of funding earmarked by the Ministry of Culture for the annual programme (DM 150,000 per year for the 
last five years), there has been success in checking the applicability of random hand measurements, planned hand measurements and 
photogrammetric recordings taken thus far, and in planning the development strategy for the project up to 2005. The future direction 
of the project will be the acceleration of protective photogrammetric recording through the introduction of 3D data collection 
standards. Evaluation of data thus obtained will in future be undertaken in line with the urgency of intervention in connection with 
heritage. 
Analysis of the course of the IZMERE project, which is run by the National Cultural Heritage Office, has indicated a need for further 
projects at the nationwide level. Projects currently in preparation include MONITORING, which plans review and observation of the 
cultural heritage and urgent measures taken on that basis, and FOTOPAT, which entails faster photographing of items of cultural 
heritage with the use of more detailed regulations during photographing and extended use of such photographs in formulating 3D 
models of documentation. 
The results are presented on the exhibition where 9 different objects and sites are presented ob 8 posters printed on paper and 
exhibited on a special construction. The exhibition is prepared as a travelling information point and is accompanied by 16 page 
catalogue. The promotion of different recording techniques is the aim of this information.