Concerning the Paradox of Paradata. Or, “I don’t want realism; I want magic!”

Richard C. Beacham

United Kingdom

University of London

King’s Visualisation Lab. King’s College, University of London. U.K.
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Accepted: 2016-01-14

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Published: 2011-05-20

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4995/var.2011.4550
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Keywords:

London charter, Paradata, 3D modelling

Supporting agencies:

This research was not funded

Abstract:

Traditional written historical investigation and analysis have from the beginning consisted of a sometimes unstable mixture of fact and conjecture, hard evidence and inspired imagination. To encourage 3-D modelling of cultural heritage artefacts to be taken seriously as historical scholarship this inevitable and ambiguous balance can be highlighted and to a significant degree documented and modulated by London Charter principles. This enhances the scholarly integrity of these models as examples of serious research based historical investigation, and helps avoid the dangers of inflated or unverified “media hype” which can compromise or discredit such work .

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References:

COLLINGWOOD, R. G. (1924): Spectaclum Mentis. Oxford University Press. Oxford.

COLLINGWOOD, R. G. (1925): "Some Perplexities About Time", in Outlines of a Philosophy of Art. Oxford.

VON RANKE, L. (1874): Geschichte der romanischen und germanischen Völker von 1494 bis 1514. Leipzig.

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