Letellier 
‘Bridging the Gap’ between the Information User and the Information Provider 
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2. THE BEGINNING OF A NEW CIPA 
2.1 1995 - Krakow CIPA annual meeting 
During CIPA’s annual meeting in Krakow, in 1995, it was recognized that CIPA Symposia were not attracting many conservation 
specialists (or “Information Users’) from ICOMOS, 1CCROM, UNESCO and other organizations and institutions involved in 
heritage conservation practices. This was explained to some extent by the fact that CIPA was initially created by photogrammetrists 
to develop state-of-the-art recording tools for architectural applications. Consequently, most CIPA Symposia consisted mainly of 
photogrammetrists presenting their work / development to other photogrammetrists. 
It was also recognized that the CIPA Executive Committee had, in the early nineties, very few active Ordinary Members representing 
ICOMOS and that the Committee was mainly composed of ISPRS representatives. It was therefore proposed that ICOMOS members 
be equally represented in CIPA if the Committee was to effectively exchange with conservation specialists to put into practice the 
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2.2 1995 - CIPA ’.S' Working Group 1 (WG1) 
CIPA’s WG1 was created in 1995 as a result of the Krakow CIPA meeting and its discussions on the importance of ICOMOS’ 
participation to CIPA’s activities. As mentioned earlier, one of WGl’s objectives was to provide a forum for photogrammetrists and 
conservationists to meet and discuss the integration of heritage recording to conservation practices. 
To achieve this objective, WG1 initiated CIPA’s 5 Year Outreach Plan (Diagrams A and A2) which consisted in organizing and 
coordinating a series of “Outreach Workshops”. This 5 year plan was introduced during a Special Session on CIPA activities at the 
1996 ISPRS Congress in Vienna. The following specialists from UNESCO, ICOMOS and CIPA introduced their respective 
organizations to the ISPRS. WG1 described the 5-Year Outreach Plan: 
1996 - CIPA Special Session at the ISPRS Congress in Vienna 
• UNESCO represented by Minja Jang 
• ICOMOS represented by Leo van Nispen 
• CIPA represented by John Badekas 
• CIPA-WG1 Outreach Workshop Initiative presented by Robin Letellier 
2.3 1996-1999 - Outreach Workshops 
Between 1996 and 1999, three Outreach Workshops took place namely in Austria (Gross Siegharts, 1996), in Sweden (Marstrand, 
1997) and in Brazil (Porto de Galihas, 1999). All together, 36 people from 19 countries shared, at different times, ideas on how to 
improve CIPA’s activities. 
In short, the strength of CIPA was identified to be its Symposia that bring together a unique set of skilled experts that have a passion 
for heritage recording (to be developed further ...). 
However, the main weaknesses identified during the Outreach Workshops related to the fact that: