López-Salas, Estefanía2024-01-112024-01-112021-10López-Salas, E. (2021). Making an Animation as a Means of Dissemination and as a Tool for Research into Historical Sites: The Case Study of San Julián de Samos. International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing 15(1-2), 133-151. https://doi.org/10.3366/ijhac.2021.02661755-17061753-8548http://hdl.handle.net/2183/34844© 2021 The Author(s), This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY 4.0 license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This version of the article has been accepted for publication in International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing. The final published paper is available online at: https://doi.org/10.3366/ijhac.2021.0266Versión final aceptada de: López-Salas, E. (2021). Making an Animation as a Means of Dissemination and as a Tool for Research into Historical Sites: The Case Study of San Julián de Samos. International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing 15(1-2), 133-151. https://doi.org/10.3366/ijhac.2021.0266[Abstract] In this article we will examine how and why the animation ‘Creating the monastic site: from its origins to the nineteenth century’ allowed us to expand the digital art and architectural project ‘Digital Samos. A digital approach to the Monastery of San Julián de Samos’. On the one hand, by making the animation, we were able to create an easy-to-read and more effective visual product to disseminate our research results about the evolving nature of the monastic site of San Julián de Samos in north-western Spain, far beyond static computer-aided design reconstructions. On the other hand, we will see that the animation became a research tool that forced us as scholars to tackle the visualization of relational past realms in their entirety and on a short-term time basis, without compromising the rigour with which computer-based visualization methods and outputs should be used in the communication of and research into cultural heritage.engAtribución 3.0 Españahttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/Digital art and architectural historyDigital visualizationAnimationSpatiotemporal changesDisseminationSpanish monastic architecturejournal articleopen access