The current application of digital workflows for the understanding, promotion and participation in the conservation of heritage sites involves several technical challenges and should be governed by serious ethical engagement. Recording consists of capturing (or mapping) the physical characteristics of character-defining elements that provide the significance of cultural heritage sites. Usually, the outcome of this work represents the cornerstone information serving for their conservation, whatever it uses actively for maintaining them or for ensuring a posterity record in case of destruction. The records produced could guide the decision-making process at different levels by property owners, site managers, public officials, and conservators around the world, as well as to present historical knowledge and values of these resources. Rigorous documentation may also serve a broader purpose: over time, it becomes the primary means by which scholars and the public apprehends a site that has since changed radically or disappeared. This contribution is aimed at providing an overview of the potential application and threats of technology utilised by a heritage recording professional by addressing the need to develop ethical principles that can improve the heritage recording practice at large.

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通过应对道德和技术挑战，利用数字工作流程来理解，促进和参与遗产保护

数字工作流在理解，促进和参与遗产保护方面的当前应用涉及若干技术挑战，应受到认真的道德参与的支配。记录包括捕获（或映射）字符定义元素的物理特征，这些元素提供了文化遗产的重要性。通常，这项工作的成果代表着保护其的基石信息，无论它是如何积极地用于维护或在毁坏时确保后代记录。产生的记录可以指导世界各地的财产所有人，现场经理，公共官员和保护者在不同层次上进行决策，并提供这些资源的历史知识和价值。严格的文档编制也可能有更广泛的用途：随着时间的流逝，它成为学者和公众了解此后发生了根本性变化或消失的站点的主要手段。这项贡献旨在通过解决发展道德原则的需求，概述遗产记录专业人士潜在的应用和技术威胁，以发展整个遗产记录实践。