ICA Webinar “Risk Mapping Cultural Property”

ICA Webinar  “Risk Mapping Cultural Property”

 

1: Date and Time

May 27, 2026; time: 10AM-12AM (Curacao time)

 

2: SPEAKERS AND EMAILS

Speakers on behalf of CHML are:

Kaitlyn Fitzgerald, Sonia Dixon  , Abby Maher  and Bill Welsh

Speakers on behalf of CARBICA are:

Max Scriwanek and Valerie Martens-Monier.  Moderator is one of the CARBICA members as mentioned.

 

3: AGENDA

Proposed Agenda for ICA Pcom Presentation 27 May 2026

 

10:00-10:30 (Local Time)

William Welsh will present Familiarization with the Cultural Heritage Monitoring Lab: Capabilities and Case Studies.  (Open-Source Cultural Heritage Inventory Building, risk mapping, and satellite imagery analysis.)

10:30-10:50

Abigail Maher will present “Open-source data collection for cultural heritage”

This will cover using publicly available information (e.g., social media, Google maps) to document the status of cultural heritage sites while avoiding online misinformation.

10:50-11:00 Break

11:00-11:30

Kaitlyn Fitzgerald and Sonia Dixon will present techniques for detailed record keeping as well as standard practices for satellite imagery and social media publication for heritage sites following disaster impact.

11:30-12:00

Carbica (Valerie Martens-Monier) Will present Web Portal Hazard Mapping for the Island of Curacao.

 

4: TITLE AND SHORT PRESENTATION

“Risk Mapping Cultural Property”

CARBICA received an ICA PCom grant to put a Risk Map online on the CARBICA site. This was a follow up on a Program to Map Cultural Heritage in the Caribbean Region, especially, related to risk scenarios, like hurricanes, floodings, sea-level rise and other natural hazards. The Mapping was done in cooperation with the Cultural Heritage Monitoring Lab (CHML), an initiative of the Smithsonian and the Virginia Museum of Natural History. As archives are especially vulnerable to (water) damage, this risk mapping tool could be interesting for the wider ICA-community. The presentation involves capabilities of the mapping tools, the case studies where it is already been used in disaster response, the harvesting of open source data to feed the mapping tool,  how to make the maps publicly available and the CARBICA project.