Archaeology & Cultural Heritage AWG

Archaeology & Cultural Heritage AWG

Manolis VavalisCERETETH

3D in A&CH

A&CH domain is characterized by an increasingincreasing volume of 3D digital content

A large part of the European CH exists in digital collections (e.g. virtual museums, digital libraries, scientific repositories)

3D models and virtual spaces have huge potential for enhancing the way people

interact with museum collections and structured e-learning environmentsattempt to answer challenging research questions.

Indicative Open Problems

A&CH 3D digital libraries are becoming more and more demanding

management, preservation, delivery mechanisms…

3D A&CH content often ishard to access and interpretheld in multiple internal systems

with non-standard schemas and descriptions.

The unavoidable manual annotation of explicit semantics is not a practical approach

especially when the number of resources is expected to grow fast.

Geometry & Knowledge Synergies:

Search or MatchPerform content- and context-based content- and context-based (semantic) searching(semantic) searching to retrieve 3D models, using any combination of text, 3D objects and ontology classifications.

use/share in a simple wayuse/share in a simple way the scientific heritage

partial matchingpartial matching and reconstruction of missing pieces

Geometry & Knowledge Synergies:Archaeology and Geosciences

Archaeology Discovery & Integration with Geosciences

Bring disparate datasets through a common reasoning systemDevelop conceptual workflowsReason on, and validate theoretical scenarios

Geometry & Knowledge Synergies:Virtual Reality Simulations

Model architecture (theaters, mosques, monuments, …)Use behavioral animation techniques to model the movement, rituals, celebrations, and practices of people

Geometry & Knowledge Synergies:Automatic Identification

The model input is processed for automated annotationA generic ontology is availableThe semantic analyzer combines the results of the annotations and the ontology to input it into the inference module

Semantic Analyzer

Generic ontolog

y

Instances of semantic

information

Automated

annotation

GUI

Instantiated ontology

Inference

Contacts and Keyplayers

#contacts: 21#questionnaires: 13

Purpose of userestoration, reconstruction, visualization, e-learning

Variety of AWG membersMuseums, Companies, Universities, Research Institutes

Application areasArchaeological investigations, Museum displays, Education, Serious GamesSimulation & reconstruction of ancient processes / environmentsVirtual reality applications / Virtual cinema

Selected AWG members

National Museum of Ethnology, NetherlandsSTARC - Cyprus Institute, CyprusCultural Technologies, JordanMellaniuM, UKHellenic World Foundation, GreeceAlinari, ItalyArkaia SRL, ItalyPUCRS University, BrazilSabanci University - Computer Graphics Lab, TurkeyCentro Interdipartimentale di Servizi di Archeologia – University of Naples L’Orientale, Italy

Connected to the other FocusK3D AWGs:Can the “Large Arch” be re-erected?Dismantled

Travertine SculptureFiber glass ModelFinite Element AnalysisSolid Model Simulations

Connected to the other FocusK3D AWGs:Serious Games and A&CH