reconstruction
Reconstruction is the process of re-creating or reconstructing something that is more or less no longer existing or unknown, for example a lost work of music , literature or art , a destroyed building, a course of events or a database. The reconstruction is not only the process but also its result.
When reconstructing it is essential to orientate oneself on preserved fragments, sources or even just indications . Due to the quantity and quality of the assumptions, a reconstruction is always hypothetical .
Deviating from this generally applicable definition, the term was also used in the GDR for “replacement” or “renewal” and “modernization” in the sense of (old building) renovation , which has been partially retained in the regions concerned.
Examples of reconstruction
- Classical archeology : Reconstruction of the colored painting of the marble sculptures of ancient Greece , as it was first seen from the end of 2003 in the exhibition Colorful Gods in the Glyptothek in Munich .
- Reconstruction of architecture : partial or complete restoration of monuments, historical buildings or parts of buildings
- Reconstruction of extinct animals such as dinosaurs based on bone finds and findings from biology
- Reconstruction of climate history using paleoclimatological methods based on climate archives .
- Reconstruction of the tectonics of mountains or the formation of the sea floor
- Gemology : Abrasive waste and small fragments of gemstones assembled with an adhesive (usually synthetic resin) .
- Reconstruction of music; Example: The “Schwanengesang” by Heinrich Schütz , where two out of eight voices had to be added, which however, due to musical rules, succeeded with some, if not absolute, reliability.
- Reconstruction of a course of events, for example in court
- Reconstruction of faces ( facial soft tissue reconstruction ) or body shape in criminology , but also in anthropology
- Reconstructive methods of medicine for the restoration of body parts in function or appearance, as a specialist discipline prosthetics (such as reconstructive implantology in dentistry, plastic surgery , and others)
- Linguistics : Reconstruction of not directly transmitted languages
- Reconstruction as a practice method in university teaching, etc. a. for exam preparation, for example structure, table and text reconstruction (converting of deliberately illogical rearranged structures, of incomplete, partly blackened tables or of texts with blanks into the correct or a meaningful version)
- In data processing, reconstruction is the restoration of lost data through signal transmission or through age damage in the archiving. Redundant data backup strategies were used for this.
- In signal processing, the conversion of a sampled discrete signal into an analog signal, see also reconstruction filter
- Rational reconstruction refers to a procedure within the empirical-analytical scientific approach , with which theories of political philosophy and the history of ideas can also be used for this approach , leaving out normative elements and closing logical jumps
- Reconstruction in mathematics of functions . The aim here is to obtain a complete functional specification with the information given.
- Accident reconstruction
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Sabina Schroeter: The language of the GDR as reflected in its literature. Volume 2. de Gruyter, 1994, ISBN 3-11-013808-5 , pp. 60, 115, 118.
- ^ Hans-Otto Schenk: The thesis. A guide for economists and social scientists. UTB 2657, ISBN 3-8252-2657-3 , pp. 122-141.
- ↑ Reconstruction in Mathematics