Innovative damage and material analysis in 3D by integrating different technologies

Concerning digitization in the area of cultural heritage, a lot of work has been done in the last forty years. The digitization of written cultural heritage is standard and millions of documents and books have been brought to digital electronic format since the 1980s. The digitization of auditive (acoustic) cultural heritage is also a standard procedure although a lot of sound storage media are still not yet recorded digitally, such as the early cylinder recordings of the world’s musical traditions in the Berlin Phonogram-Archive. In the case of digitization of intangible cultural heritage, a classical digitization is not possible. It has to be taught and cultivated to preserve it.