World Heritage Sites for Europeana

Franco Niccolucci, Andrea D’Andrea, Kate Fernie and Sheena Bassett

This project has been funded with support from the European Commission‘s CIP ICT PSP programme

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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 Innovative aspects and aspirations

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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) institutionsCatalyst for new content services – Europeana services and tools, standards, Linked Open Data, …– Hackathons – new content-based apps.

Source of exhibitions (engaging the public)Network of cultural heritage organisations and expertiseEvolving - going from the ESE (Europeana Semantic Elements) schema to the EDM (Europeana Data Model) with planned future releasesOne-stop-shop and showcase for digitised cultural heritage.

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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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Content-provider projects23 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).

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Europeana Exhibition

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3D in Europeana

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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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ObjectivesFocus 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 sitesDigitisation and 3D-scanning of buildings and sitesConversion 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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Targeted content

16 partners from 11 different countries providing content:

Pompeii, Italy Newgrange, Ireland

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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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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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Innovative aspects

3D-ICONS will use CARARE aggregation service– ORE OAI aggregation – Linked Open Data

Production pipeline– Flexibility in data creation– Advanced semantics/rich metadata– Quality assurance– Business model

• Cost analysis, IPR, organizational models– Attractiveness for end users.

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The challenges

Suitable formats for end users– Viewable on home computers, preferably without

plug-ins or installation of special viewersReduction and simplification of 3D models– Without compromising quality and impact

Metadata – Extension to CARARE schema without over-

complicating but mapable to the EDMIPR management and business planning– Advice and recommended approaches

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Work in progress

Survey of current 3D-content:– Format, current IPR status (simple), size, technologies

and methodologies used, …Separate survey of current IPR practicesAnalysis of monument inventory to decide data acquisition, post-processing, …– Each partner to create digitisation schedule– Case studies

Formats for EuropeanaMetadata and thesauri

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Digitisation & scanning

Any questions?

Project Manager: Prof. Franco NiccolucciEmail: Niccolucci@unifi.it

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