Web3D Cultural and Natural Heritage Working Group

SIGGRAPH 2015, August

heritage@web3d.org

Sandy Ressler @sressler

National Institute of Standards and Technology

Working Group is "Official"

Now What??

Roadmap

  • requirements
  • technologies
  • appearance
  • metadata
  • behavior

Concrete Tasks Need

to be Defined

  • annotation tool(s)
  • viewpoint walkthroughs (tours)
  • X3D production paths

Tasks are in context (scope) of Web3D Consortium

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

More Tasks and larger efforts:

 

  • 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)

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

CSIRO Insect Digitization

Sample Insects X3DOM

Rijksmuseum

NRC Digization of Mona Lisa

Fraunhofer IGD CultLab 3D

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
  • 3d.si.edu
  • Google Cultural Institute 
  • https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/u/0/home

How can You Help

  • mailing list: heritage@web3d.org
  • twitter feed: @Web3DConsortium
  • propose a project
  • join the WG

The End