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The fourth volume of the monograph is a continuation of two volumes published by the Lublin University of Technology Publishing House in 2021: Tangible Cultural Heritage of the Silk Road from the Area of Modern Uzbekistan and Intangible Cultural Heritage of the Silk Road from the Area of Modern Uzbekistan and one in 2022: Cultural Heritage of Uzbekistan – from Petroglyphs to the Present Days. The first contacts of the employees of the Department of Computer Science with partners from Uzbekistan took place in 2014. In the following years, the first agreement was signed, the first joint articles were prepared, and in 2017, scientific expeditions were organised, the main goal of which was the three-dimensional digitisation of the cultural heritage of the Silk Road. An additional goal was to transfer knowledge about 3D technologies to academic communities by conducting several scientific seminars in Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. During the expeditions, small museum artefacts and large architectural objects were digitised in 3D technology. The cooperation resulted in the preparation of joint conferences in Lublin (Poland) and Samarkand (Uzbekistan): International Conferences on Information Technology in Cultural Heritage Management (IT-CHM) and allowed for the preparation of many scientific publications for international conferences and for journals. In 2019, the cooperation between the Lublin University of Technology and Uzbekistan allowed us to obtain a project financed by the Polish National Agency for International Exchange (NAWA), under the name "3D Digital Silk Road" (project number PPI/APM/2019/1/00004). The new source of financing made it possible to significantly expand the existing cooperation. The Lublin University of Technology and the partners – 4 universities from Uzbekistan: National University of Uzbekistan (NUU) in Tashkent, Samarkand State University (SamSU), Chirchik State Pedagogical Institute (CSPI) and Urgench State University (USU) participates in the project. This monograph is the result of the International Conference "IT in Cultural Heritage of the Silk Road (IT-CHSR'2021)", which took place on December 13–15, 2021 at the Lublin University of Technology (Lublin, Poland). There were over 20 people from Uzbekistan among the participants of the conference, of which 15 people came to Lublin, and the rest had speeches at the on-line session. The participants represented the most important university and museum circles in Uzbekistan. The monograph contains works that, due to the subject matter covered in them, can be classified into the following groups: preparing museums with the use of computer technologies, including 3D museology, the use of IT to protect cultural heritage, both tangible and intangible (3D scanning of small artifacts, 3D modelling with reconstruction architectural objects and 3D dance recording, modelling of vibrations of historic buildings), educational applications of various computer graphics technologies, the use of IT technology in the broadly understood service of tourist traffic, as well as the use of automatic translation of literature.

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