IT support for climate resilient cultural heritage - examples from the KERES project

Not only ecosystems are particularly sensitive to extreme weather as a result of climate change. Historical buildings, museum's collections and historical gardens can also be affected by extreme weather conditions. Assessing the extent to which cultural assets are endangered by such weather and climate events is an interdisciplinary task that requires the collaboration of climate scientists together with cultural heritage managers, monument conservators, restorers and engineers. However, this discussion is currently hardly taking place in Germany, both on a scientific and on policy levels.