Exposé présenté au 4ème Sommet mondial pour l'Internet et le Multimédia de la FIAM qui s'est déroulé du 18 au 20 Octobre 2004 à Pékin (Beijing) dans le nouveau Centre des Congrès du "Media Boulevard".

1. Towards new digital
cultural spaces
by Jean-Pierre Dalbéra
National Museum of European and
Mediterranean Civilisations
Head of research and technology department
of the french Ministry of Culture
since 1990 to 2003.

2. Cultural Heritage and technologies
a cohesive approach
http://www.culture.gouv.fr/
 Scientific research
 Technical Innovation (new tools)
 Digitisation (catalogues and documents)
 Dissemination and publishing
 International cooperation
to foster economic development, education,
tourism, art creation, social relations…

3. Knowledge
• Research programmes for archaeology, art
history, ethnology, architecture,..
• Inventories, catalogues, books,..
• Methodologies, descriptive systems, thesaurus
(monuments, objects, archives, intangible
heritage, museums,…)
• 67 cultural databases (free access)
http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/bdd

4. Musée Guimet : national museum of asiatic arts

5. Musée Guimet (Paris)

6. Joconde (french museums database)

7. Examples of sculptures of « musée Guimet »

8. Examples of rolls of « musée Guimet »

9. « Mémoire » : historical photographs database

10. Historical photographs of China (database)

11. Virtual reality and cultural heritage
15 years of innovation
• A powerful instrument of knowledge
• A tool for education
• Allowing public access to monuments that
are closed for the visit
• Reconstructing objects and environments
• Allowing a new vision without constraints in
space and time

12. The traditional method of reconstruction
by drawing and water-colour
OUDHNA (TUNISIA)
• The antique roman city of Oudhna
reconstructed by J.C. Golvin (CNRS)
• The Acropolis today

13. The pioneers of virtual reality : Paris in 1789
The reconstruction of Paris in 1789
for French Revolution Bicentenary
by a french society « Ex-Machina » (1989)
http://www.mediaport.net/en/CP/CyberScience/BDD/fich_037.en.html
Pixel INA Award 1990

14. Illumination techniques
1990 : one of the first simulation projects.
Virtual illumination of the « Bonsecours » church
by the MAP/CRAI laboratory (Nancy, France)
http://www.crai.archi.fr/

15. The virtual museum of Louvre by night
1992 : The virtual illumination of Louvre
A partnership between the MAP/CRAI laboratory
and the LORIA (INRIA), (Nancy, France),
with the sponsoring of « Electricité de France »

16. The first virtual reconstruction of Cluny Abbey
A reconstruction realizead in 1992 by « le Centre d'Enseignement
et de Recherche ENSAM » of the city of Cluny
with a sponsoring of IBM
(by the archaeologist K. J. Conant)
http://www.cluny.ensam.fr/

17. Inside reconstruction of Cluny Abbey
First virtual model realized in 1992
has been improved since this date by ENSAM of Cluny

18. Televirtual visit of Cluny Abbey
Imagina 1993, Monte-Carlo, France :
The first experiment of televirtuality :
a virtual visit of the « père Di Falco » in Monte Carlo
guided by the curator of the historical monument in Paris
http://imagina.ina.fr/Imagina/2000/Actu/feedback.fr.html

19. Virtual Illumination of bridges of Paris
1993 : The virtual illumination of the « Pont Neuf » (Paris)
by the MAP/CRAI laboratory (Nancy, France),
with the sponsoring of « Electricité de France »

20. The sanctuary of Athena 3D-model (Delphes)
1997 : the 3D reconstruction of the sanctuary of Athena
(Delphes, Greece)
A partnership between MAP/CRAI laboratory (Nancy, France),
« la maison de l’archéologie » (Bordeaux, France),
« Ecole française d’Athènes »
with the sponsoring of « Electricité de France »

21. Virtual reality and haptic feedback
on a famous greek sculpture of « musée du Louvre »
An experiment
of the research
and technology
department
of the ministry
of culture
and a french society
SeamTeam (2000)
On the left : Catherine Tasca,
the french minister
of culture can see and
touch the virtual
sculpture

22. Realtime augmented reality :
Cathedral of Amiens (France)
3D-model of sculptures
and virtual application
of mediaeval colours
We can see on the
photography on the left
the effects obtained
by projection of light
on the front of the
Cathedral of Amiens
SeamTeam and other
Partners (2000)

23. The MAP laboratory : « Models and simulations for
architecture, town planning and landscapes »
1998 : a new laboratory is created
(a partnership between the National Center
of Scientific Research and the
Ministry of culture)
(Marseille, Nancy, Lyon, Toulouse, Strasbourg)
http://www.map.archi.fr/

24. The national programme : 3D Monuments
A national programme :
• to coordinate 3D models production on
historical monuments
• to promote data normalisation,
• to develop method of photomodelling and 3D
laser scanning
• to produce 3D models for restauration of
historical buildings, but also for e-education,
e-culture, e-tourism

25. Acquisition methods : Laser scanning, digital photographs
3D-Monuments : a french national programme
for modelising monuments and buildings

26. 3D-Monuments : Extraction of relevant profiles
and architectural knowledge-based modeling
Glossary, grammar and knowledges organized par Livio de Luca (MAP)
2002 to elaborate a 3D-model of the roman temple of Dougga (Tunisia)
Elements of architecture
Grammar of architecture
Knowledges of 3D-model

27. 3D-Monuments database for the scene wall
of roman theater of Arles
Livio de
Luca,
Michel
Florenzano
(MAP)
2003

28. 3D-Monuments : Image matching and 3D model for a
temple of Dougga (Tunisia)
The temple of Dougga (Moustapha KHANOUSSI, Michel FLORENZANO, Jean-
Claude GOLVIN, Véronique REDDÉ, Livio DE LUCA)

29. 3D-Monuments : Augmented reality
for the roman theater of Arles
The roman theater of Arles has been built at the end of the 1st century B.J.C..

30. 3D-Monuments : Augmented reality
for the roman theater of Arles
Reconstruction by Michel Florenzano and Livio De Luca (MAP) 2003

31. 3D-Monuments : some 3D models
available on the website
La saline d’Arc et Senans
Le Palais royal (Paris)
Le casino d’Aix-en-Provence
L’hôtel de Sully (Paris)
http://www.map.archi.fr/3D-monuments

32. 3D immersive virtual spaces for cultural institutions ?
We inaugurated, in october 2004, at Bavay in the north of France,
the first immersive space in an archaeological museum.
Immersive room in ENSAM (Cluny)Immersive parabol (2002)

33. Great archaeological sites : a collection
for the Web
• 16 multimedia publications to
valorize archaeological
research (1996-2004),
• On free access
• Collaborations between
researchers, web-designers,
technicians, educators,..
• 6 international awards for the
collection,
• 100.000 visites by month
(2003).
Produced by research and
technology department of
the french ministry of
culture
With the National Center of
Scientific Research (CNRS)

34. Great archaeological websites
3D model of neolithic houses

35. Great archaeological websites
3D model of the Akhethetep’s mastaba

36. Great archaeological websites
Mobius Heritage 2003 international Award

37. European projects on virtual reality and
cultural heritage
Research on multimedia guided tours or
exhibitions
• ARCHEOGUIDE (augmented reality-
based cultural heritage on-site guide)
Olympie, Greece
• PAST : PAD, Bibracte (France),…
• LIFE PLUS : Pompeï (Italy),..
• EPOCH : european network of
excellence
• STRABON, euromediterranean
plateform for cultural heritage and
sustainable tourism
• ….
• Le « cyber-carnet : Visite + » Cité des
sciences et de l’industrie, (Canada
exhibition)

38. Jean-Pierre DALBERA
Mission pour le musée national des civilisations de
l’Europe et de la Méditerranée
Musée national des arts et traditions populaires
6 avenue du Mahatma Ghandi
75116 Paris France
Téléphone : 33 1 44 17 60 21
Fax : 33 1 44 17 60 60
E-mail : jean-pierre.dalbera@culture.gouv.fr
Personal website : http://www.dalbera.nom.fr/
URL of the conference :
http://site.voila.fr/dalbera2/3D/chine.ppt