1. Introduction to 3D-ICONS
Sheena Bassett,
Project Manager
This project has been funded with support from the European Commission‘s CIP ICT PSP programme
2. Introduction
Overview
About Europeana
The 3D-Icons Project
Objectives
Targeted content
IPR Issues
3D-ICONS Technologies
Scanning, data acquisition, 3D model construction,
metadata and harvesting
Challenges, Progress and the Aim of 3D-ICONS
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3. What is Europeana?
A huge database of information about digital content
(metadata) held by European cultural heritage institutions
– Funded by the European Commission
– Supplied by a range of Best Practice and other Pilot projects as well as
directly by (larger) institutions
Catalyst for new content services
– Europeana services and tools, standards, Linked Open Data, …
– Hackathons – new content-based apps
– Europeana Research next stage
Source of exhibitions (engaging the public)
Network of cultural heritage organisations and expertise
Evolving - going from the ESE (Europeana Semantic Elements)
schema to the EDM (Europeana Data Model) with planned
future releases
One-stop-shop and showcase for digitised cultural heritage.
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4. Current Status of Europeana
By July 2012
– over 23 million objects
– from more than 2,200 institutions
– from 33 countries.
Predominantly
– Images
– Text
– Audio
– Video
– 3D (just a few but lots more in the pipeline!)
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6. The 3D-ICONS Project
3D-ICONS will bring exciting and engaging 3D models
and constructions to Europeana end users
– Rapid in-roads in gaming, TV and films
– Challenge for Cultural Heritage sector to bring their
3D models used for scientific & research purposes
into the public domain
• 3D real life models of monuments and buildings
• Complete sites such as Pompeii
• Virtual reality models
• Fly-throughs, …
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7. Objectives
Focus on 3D content:
– Models & reconstructions
– Enlarged models of important features and details
– Related images, texts and videos.
Enable the ‘re-contextulization’ of objects held elsewhere
(e.g. museums)
Enable ‘access’ to inaccessible sites
Digitisation and 3D-scanning of buildings and sites
Conversion of existing 3D content into user-friendly formats
for Europeana end users.
– General public, tourists, students, cultural heritage institutions
who need to produce 3D documentation about their important
monuments and buildings, content providers & SMEs looking for
sustainable business processes.
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8. Targeted content
16 partners from 11 different countries providing
content:
Pompeii, Italy Newgrange, Ireland
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9. IPR Issues
Metadata provided to Europeana under CC0 licence
– EDM schema elements
– Based upon the CARARE schema
End user clicks on URL
– Taken to landing page
• Choice of models, formats
• IPR information
Project Consortium Agreement
– Access to IPR unless otherwise
specified in the Annexes.
Advice on how to handle IPR
Sculpture of Cerrillo Blanco
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10. Technologies
Scanning equipment
– Various technologies in use
3D Data acquisition
– Surveying, modelling, …
3D model construction
– MeshLab, Blender
Creation of 3D models
– CityEngine (3D-COFORM)
Metadata and harvesting
– OAI-PMH compliant repositories, MINT
and MORE tools.
Publication
– 3D-PDF, WebGL, SpiderGL, HTML5.
Pisa
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11. The challenges
Suitable formats for end users
– Viewable on home computers, preferably without
plug-ins or installation of special viewers
Reduction and simplification of 3D models
– Without compromising quality and impact
Metadata
– Extension to CARARE schema without over-
complicating but mapable to the EDM
IPR management and business planning
– Advice and recommended approaches
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12. Work in progress
Survey of current 3D-content:
– Format, current IPR status (simple), size, technologies
and methodologies used, …
Separate survey of current IPR practices and Initial
Report on IPR completed.
Analysis of monument inventory to decide data
acquisition, post-processing, …
– Each partner to create digitisation schedule
– Case studies
Formats for Europeana
Metadata and thesauri
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14. The end result
3D-ICONS will use the CARARE aggregation service
– ORE OAI aggregation
– Linked Open Data
3D-ICONS will create a production pipeline
– Flexibility in data creation
– Advanced semantics/rich metadata
– Quality assurance
– Business model
• Cost analysis, IPR, organizational models
– Attractiveness for end users.
3D-ICONS will an exemplar for making complex 3D models
available to the public domain.
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23 current projects: CARARE (archaeology & architecture), Europeana Fashion, Digitising Contemporary Art (DCA), ECLAP (performing arts), EuScreen (TV), Europeana Collections 1914-1918, Europeana 1914-1918, EuroPhoto, Europeana Libraries, Europeana Regia (manuscripts), HOPE (social history), Europeana Photography, Natural Europe, Open Up! (bio-diversity) and ThinkMOTION (science & engineering). 8 completed: JUDAICA (Jewish history), MIMO (musical instruments), EuropeanaLocal, European Film Gateway, Biodiversity Heritage Library for Europe, EuropeanaTravel and two others aimed at national archives and museums (general content).
12 files to date 11 from the 3D-COFORM Project and one (3dPDF = 56 MB!!) provided by the Cyprus Ministry of Education & Culture However, content from CARARE is currently being ingested. Examples can be seen on the 3D/Virtual Reality section of the resources webpage on the carare website.
The 3D-ICONS project, which started in February 2012 and lasts 3 years, focuses on digital content that includes 3D models and reconstructions, enlarged models of important details and related images, texts and videos. It will also include and re-contextualize in 3D, objects belonging to a monument but presently located elsewhere, for example in museums. The project’s activities will include both new digitisation as well as the conversion of some existing 3D data into formats which are accessible for Europeana users. 3D-ICONS is expected to make a significant impact by making accessible through Europeana an unprecedented quantity of high-quality, 3D, well-organized and attractive information about the masterpieces of European architecture and archaeology.
The Royal Site at the Hill of Tara in Ireland; Etruscan necropolises with their painted tombs; the Coliseum with the Roman Fora and Pompeii; the Italian medieval city of S. Gimignano; the Leaning Tower and the Cathedral of Pisa; the Renaissance Centre of Florence; the palace of Versailles; the Arc de Triomphe and the Centre Pompidou in Paris.
The digitization of archaeological and architectural monuments requires arrangements with the authorities in charge of the monument. For content directly digitized by the project, agreements have been made for provision, re-use, improvement and aggregation with already available content. For future use by others, the project will describe an IPR management model that is acceptable for most European public authorities, according to the very diverse legislations existing in Europe. It envisages free access for personal and “fair” use, such as access through Europeana using applications such as 3D-PDF and Venus 3D [11], but allows IPR protection for commercial use.
short-range scanning based on triangulation, • long-range scanning based on time-of-flight, • images-to-3D reconstruction based on different incarnations of stereo-matching and photogrammetry, • modalities for gathering enhanced 2D media, such as polynomial Texture Maps (PTM) or very large panoramic image).