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1783. RESEARCHThis section will focus on academic studies on digital technologies which have yet to be widely used or implemented in practice but are of far-reaching importance to the heritage eld and illustrate the potential and versatility of these technologies.As in the previous sections, we will include cases of good practice in the sector, though here priority will be given to recent pioneering scienti c research.The experiments in question are known only through specialist publications and have been widely discussed at scienti c events. They are among the most important research projects and results achieved in the scienti c community.We will include recent studies still at the experimental stage owing to their pioneering and ground-breaking nature, as well as research which has achieved very promising results that indicate the new way forward for heritage andwhich we can expect to see in the relatively near future. Some of these national and international projects are government-aided and conducted by public institutions, while others are part of private entrepreneurial initiatives where collab- oration between di erent areas of knowledge through multidisciplinary teams has reaped excellent results.We also include analytical studies which di er from other similar experiments in that they o er new ways of using technological resources and are a point of departure for implementing these projects outside the empirical eld.All these experiences are an evident re ection of the fact that the relationship between cultural heritage and digital technologies is becoming more active than ever and is bringing better ways of preserving and promoting our society’s knowledge of heritage.3. RESEARCHThe use of digital technologies in the conservation, analysis and dissemination of cultural heritage