Cultural heritage creates identity to people, society and nations. But in many regions of this world tangible cultural heritage is in danger due to erosion, political conflicts or natural desaster. Thus, cultural knowledge is lost and cannot be passed on to future generations. This workshop deals with the urgent question of the possibilities of digitalizing and virtualizing cultural heritage in order to preserve it digitally and make it accessible to a broad audience, regardless of space and time.

The workshop takes place on Sep 19, 2025 as part of the GI Informatik Festival 2025 in the University ofPotsdam, Germany. 

We invited theoretical and applied contributions from the following areas:

• Photogrammetry, Lidar-technologies, 3D-scanning technologies
• Technical workflows for the digitization of cultural heritage and the creation of digital twins
• Spatial design, XR, VR, AR and interactive environments in the context of digitalization of cultural heritage
• Questions of technology in the ethical context of digitalization of cultural heritage
• Digital restoration of cultural assets
• Possibilities of AI in the context of digitalization of cultural heritage
• Sustainable tourism and virtual travel
• Data storage and digital preservation of data, databases for digitalization of cultural heritage

After a careful double blind review of the submissions we accepted 20 contributions from Irak, Sudan and Europe: 9 student and 11 regular papers, that will be presented in talks and a poster session.

The final program is in preparation and will be published not later than end of August.

Organizing Committee

• Christina B. Class, professor for computer science at the Department of Fundamental Sciences, Ernst-Abbe-Hochschule Jena University of Applied Sciences.
• Julia Schnitzer, professor of digital media at the Faculty of Informatics and Media at Brandenburg Technical University of Applied Sciences.
• Paul Grimm, professor for expanded reality at Darmstadt University ofApplied Sciences and European University of Technology.