What to do?

• Applications
• Feature/Additions to spec
  • material properties
    • audio?
  • x3d archival or presentation
  • quality
  • metadata for notes/source
  • point to EU CIDOC-CRM standard?
  • shape searching (3D object retrieval)

Specific Tasks for X3D

• Annotations - pointing to specific subsets of the geometry;
• Viewpoint dependent information
• High quality color manipulation
• Walkthroughs/Guided tours
• Authoring tool for all above

First meeting at Web3D 2015 (Crete)

• Dieter Fellner - Fraunhofer: large scale 3D aquisition
• Fone Kuijk - CWI: virtual environments / games
• Stuart Anderson - CSIRO: natural bio scanning 
• Sam Parfano - EDF: reverse engineering
• Michal Foti - Italy: church model
• Don Brutzman - NPS
• Felix Hamza-Lup - Armstrong U:
• Carol Desprat - Touluse France: sound properties
• Amada Sadagiz - NPS: educational applications
• Krysztof Walczak - Poznan U of Econ: ARC

Fraunhofer IGD CultLab 3D

NRC Digization of Mona Lisa

CSIRO Insect Digitization

Text

Smithsonian - Scanning the President

Virginia Tech - Smithsonian

http://metagrid1.sv.vt.edu/~npolys/SI3D/

Why Web3D Consortium

• 3D Archival Standard
• REAL ISO standards
• The Web is humanities greatest invention for the dissemination of information, so let's use it!

Resources

• Yale: http://web.library.yale.edu/3d-objects
• X3DOM modelconvert: https://github.com/x3dom/pipeline/
• openGLAM http://openglam.org/ Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums
• Google Cultural Institute 
  
• https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/u/0/home

How can You Help

• mailing list
• twitter feed
• propose a project
• join the WG

The End

Yes it's showcase time!!