Editorial

In October 2013, Marseille, the European Capital of Culture, witnessed the world's first multidisciplinary global gathering on the application of digital technology to the documentation, conservation, and understanding of humanity's shared past: Digital Heritage 2013, the first International Congress on Digital Heritage. Spanning heritage in all of its rich variety--from the built to intangible traditions, museums, and collections, to documentary archives, creativity, and art--this unique Congress bridges research and practice, industry and government, and art and science by bringing the many exciting but disparate young events and communities around heritage and technology together. Forward-looking leaders from across the heritage and technology worlds came together and agreed to unite their respective communities under one roof in a shared experiment in Marseille.