02373nas a2200325   4500000000100000008004100001653002200042653002300064653000800087653003500095653002300130653002600153653001800179653001800197653002500215653001700240653001800257653002100275653002000296653002100316653002000337100002100357700001600378245009400394856016100488300001200649490000600661520135500667020002502022                                       d10acultural heritage10aCultural heritages10aGIS10aGeographic information systems10aHeritage Recording10aRebecca Harding Davis10aSerious games10aSerious games10aSpatial Storytelling10aSpatial Turn10aSpatial turns10aVirtual heritage10aVirtual reality10aVirtual heritage10aVirtual reality1 aD.J. Bonenberger1 aT.M. Harris00aPlacing Virtual Heritage: Reconciling virtual and cultural heritage with the Spatial Turn  uhttps://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84896798342&doi=10.1109%2fDigitalHeritage.2013.6744827&partnerID=40&md5=1d897b5b3df5dc37ae1d045c7f72595d  a601-6040 v23 aCommon landscapes, ethnicity, and intangible cultural heritage are increasingly valued by historic preservationists yet are poorly reflected in the Virtual Heritage corpus. Furthermore, meeting the standards of heritage recording concerning accessibility, sustainability, accuracy, and the disclosure of data limitations within Virtual Heritage, creates tensions yet to be reconciled. The Spatial Turn encourages a reassertion of space and place into academic studies and no less so than in Virtual Heritage. History has been described as the geography of places past, for the past does not exist exclusively in time but in space. Since heritage represents the visible and invisible relicts of places past, so the Spatial Turn has become a point of retrospection for rebalancing an overemphasis on historicism and reinstating the inherent placeness of human life and the power relations implicit in space. This paper draws upon advances in 3D GIS, Virtual Reality, Serious Gaming, and cultural geography to elaborate on these themes and to suggest possible outcomes of value to Virtual Heritage and those interested in places past. A case study explores the potential for a sensuous, spatial, and emotive Virtual Heritage, drawing on the powerful writings of Rebecca Harding Davis and set in Wheeling (West) Virginia on the eve of the U.S. Civil War.  a9781479931699 (ISBN)