Bernard Frischer

Web Sites

"Beyond Illustration: New Dimensions of 3D Modeling of Cultural Heritage Sites and Monuments," keynote address at the Fall 2009 Membership Meeting of CNI (The Coalition for Networked Information), Washington, DC, Dec. 15, 2009.
Rome Reborn: An Inside View. (2008)
Rome Reborn: Tech Notes. (2008)
The Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome (2000).
The Roman Forum: A Virtual Tour by Prof. Bernard Frischer (1998).
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Horace's Villa (Licenza, Italy). A Guided Tour by Prof. Bernard Frischer. (1997)
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A Roman Villa in Malibu. The J. Paul Getty Museum and the Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum (1985).
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Podcast of an interview by Jeff Guin (National Center for Preservation Technology and Training, National Park Service, USA), February 28, 2010 at the conference "Technology Preserves" at Texas A&M.
Podcast of an interview by Gerry Bayne (EDUCAUSE), January 25, 2010. This interview is provided courtesy of CNI and was recorded at their 2009 Fall Task Force Meeting in Washington, D.C.
Interview on German Public Radio: "Google Earth instead of Trowel and Brush: Archaeologists Discover the Appeal of Computer Tools." April 5, 2007. (Transcript of original broadcast in German; English translation.)

Frischer, B., 2008. "From Digital Illustration to Digital Heuristics," in Beyond Illustration: 2D and 3D Digital Technologies as Tools for Discovery in Archaeology, edited by Bernard Frischer and Anastasia Dakouri-Hild, BAR International Series 1805 (Oxford) v-xxiv. View Document
Gutierrez, D., B. Frischer, E. Cerezo, F. Seron. "AI and Virtual Crowds: Populating the Colosseum," Journal of Cultural Heritage 8(2), 2007. View Document

Frischer, B. and P. Stinson, 2007. "The Importance of Scientific Authentication and a Formal Visual Language in Virtual Models of Archaeological Sites: The Case of the House of Augustus and Villa of the Mysteries," in Interpreting The Past: Heritage, New Technologies and Local Development. Sponsored by Flemish Heritage Institute, Provincial Archaeological Museum Ename, Province of East Flanders, Ename Center for Public Archaeology and Heritage Presentation. Proceedings of the Conference on Authenticity, Intellectual Integrity and Sustainable Development of the Public Presentation of Archaeological and Historical Sites and Landscapes Ghent, East-Flanders 11-13 September 2002. View Document

Frischer, B., 2006. "New Directions for Cultural Virtual Reality: A Global Strategy for Archiving, Serving, and Exhibiting 3D Computer Models of Cultural Heritage Sites," Proceedings of the Conference Virtual Retrospect 2005 (Bordeaux) 168-175. View Document

Frischer, B., D. Abernathy, F.C. Giuliani, R. Scott, H. Ziemssen, 2006. "A New Digital Model of the Roman Forum," in Imaging Ancient Rome. Documentation--Visualization--Imagination , edited by Lothar Haselberger and John Humphrey, Journal of Roman Archaeology, Supplementary Series 61, 163-182. Not available online.

Guidi, G., B. Frischer, et al., 2005. "Virtualizing Ancient Rome: 3D Acquisition and Modeling of a Large Plaster-of-Paris Model of Imperial Rome," Videometrics VIII, edited by J.-Angelo Beraldin, Sabry F. El-Hakim, Armin Gruen, James S. Walton, 18-20 January 2005, San Jose, California, USA, SPIE, vol. 5665, 119-133. View Document

Frischer, B., 2005. "The Digital Roman Forum Project: Remediating the Traditions of Roman Topography, in Acts of the 2nd Italy-United States Workshop, Rome, Italy, November 3-5, 2003, Berkeley, USA, May, 2005 edited by M. Forte, BAR International Series 1379 (Oxford 2005) 9-21. html document

Frischer, B., 2005. "The Ultimate Internet Cafe. Reflections of a Practicing Digital Humanist about Designing a Future for the Research Library in the Digital Age," in Library as Place. Rethinking Roles, Rethinking Space, Council on Library and Information Resources publication nr. 129 (Washington, DC) 41-55. View Document

Frischer, B., 2004. "Mission and Recent Projects of the UCLA Cultural Virtual Reality Laboratory," in Proceedings of the Conference Virtual Retrospect 2003, Biarritz, France 6-7 November 2003, edited by R. Vergnieux and C. Delevoie, 65-76. View Document

Frischer, B. et al., 2003. "The Digital Roman Forum Project of the UCLA Cultural Virtual Reality Laboratory," International Archives of Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, vol. 34, part 5/W10, edited by A. Gruen, S. Murai, J. Niederost, F. Remondino. View document

Frischer, B. et al., 2002. "From CVR to CVRO. The Past, Present, and Future of Cultural Virtual Reality," by B. Frischer, F. Niccolucci, N. Ryan, J. Barcelò, Proceedings of VAST 2000, ed. F. Niccolucci, British Archaeological Reports 834 (ArcheoPresss, Oxford) 7-18. View Document

Frischer, B. et al. 2000."Virtual Reality and Ancient Rome: The UCLA Cultural VR Lab's Santa Maria Maggiore Project," by B. Frischer, D. Favro, P. Liverani, S. De Blaauw, D. Favro, D. Abernathy, Virtual Reality in Archaeology, British Archaeological Reports International Series S 843, ed. J. A. Barcelo, M. Forte, and D. H. Sanders (ArcheoPress, Oxford) 155-162. View Document

Frischer, B., 1988. "Project Cicero," a chapter in Interactive Multimedia, ed. S. Ambron and K. Hooper (Microsoft Press, Redmond, WA) 145-156, 301-302. Not available online.

Frischer, B., forthcoming."The 'Grand Compromise': A Hybrid Approach to Solving the Problem of Looted Art," paper presented at The 11th International Congress on 'Cultural Heritage and New Technologies' under the Patronage of UNESCO, Vienna, Austria, October 20, 2006. View Document

Helling, H., Steinmetz, C., Solomon, E., and Frischer, B., forthcoming. "The Port Royal Project. A Case Study in the Use of VR Technology for the Recontextualization of Archaeological Artifacts and Building Remains in a Museum Setting," in Acts of CAA2004, Prato, Italy, April 13-16, 2004, edited by F. Niccolucci, 10 pp. View Document