Presentation delivered by Guoping Huang, Will Rourk and Kurtis Schaeffer on 2018-09-97 at the Rare Book School's Archives, Memory & Identity: A Public Symposium

1. Spatial Narratives of the Historic Tibetan Capital of Lhasa with 3D GIS
presented by Guoping Huang, Will Rourk, Kurtis Schaeffer
Archives, Memory & Identity 07 September 2018

2. Humanities Virtual Worlds Consortium
Consortium Members:
• University of Virginia
• UCLA
• National University
of Ireland Maynooth
• Indiana University
UVA Lhasa VR Team:
PI: David Germano & Kurtis Schaeffer
Tech Lead: Will Rourk
GIS Specialists:
Guoping Huang
Zihao Zhang
Tibetan Specialists:
Steve Weinberger
Rinchen Dorje
Tashi Dekyi Gar
Ben Nourse
Andres Montano
Than Grove
An Andrew Mellon Foundation Initiative

3. 3D and GIS Legacy
http://bit.ly/MeruNyingpa

4. The 5th Dalai Lama (1617 – 1682)

5. Cultural Data
http://thlib.org

6. Historic References
http://www.TibetHeritageFund.org

7. USGS Data
Declass II Satellite Imagery
1m resolution
Acquired 1966/01/22
http://earthexplorer.usgs.gov
GLSDEM_N029E090 & N029E091
90 M resolution
http://srtm.csi.cgiar.org

8. ESRI ArcGIS

9. Pitt Rivers Tibetan Collection
http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk
Historic Media

10. CityEngine
http://bit.ly/LhasaCE

12. Unity 3D

13. Lhasa VR
http://bit.ly/LhasaVR
Unity 3D and Drupal

15. http://www.nipic.com/ & Pitt River Museum

16. http://www.nipic.com/ & Pitt River Museum

17. Zhol Village covers 50,000
sq m. of the Potala Palace
complex. It includes of 22
ancient buildings which
cover an area of 33,470 sq
m. These buildings once
included housing as well
as the city jail and
government offices (for the
city's administration,
judiciary, revenue, and
mint).
Potala south face from
Chakpori
© Pitt Rivers Museum,
University of Oxford
http://www.nipic.com/ & Pitt River Museum

18. Guoping Huang
School of Architecture
ghuang@Virginia.edu
Will Rourk
University Library
will@Virginia.edu
Kurtis Schaeffer
Religious Studies
ks6bb@Virginia.edu