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1. Introduction to 3D-ICONS
Sheena Bassett,
Project Manager
This project has been funded with support from the European Commission‘s CIP ICT PSP programme

2. 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
 Challenges, Progress and the Aim of 3D-ICONS
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3. 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) institutions
Catalyst for new content services
– Europeana services and tools, standards, Linked Open Data, …
– Hackathons – new content-based apps
– Europeana Research next stage
Source of exhibitions (engaging the public)
Network of cultural heritage organisations and expertise
Evolving - going from the ESE (Europeana Semantic Elements)
schema to the EDM (Europeana Data Model) with planned
future releases
One-stop-shop and showcase for digitised cultural heritage.
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4. 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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5. 3D in Europeana
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6. 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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7. Objectives
Focus 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 sites
Digitisation and 3D-scanning of buildings and sites
Conversion 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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8. Targeted content
16 partners from 11 different countries providing
content:
Pompeii, Italy Newgrange, Ireland
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9. 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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10. 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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11. The challenges
Suitable formats for end users
– Viewable on home computers, preferably without
plug-ins or installation of special viewers
Reduction and simplification of 3D models
– Without compromising quality and impact
Metadata
– Extension to CARARE schema without over-
complicating but mapable to the EDM
IPR management and business planning
– Advice and recommended approaches
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12. Work in progress
Survey of current 3D-content:
– Format, current IPR status (simple), size, technologies
and methodologies used, …
Separate survey of current IPR practices and Initial
Report on IPR completed.
Analysis of monument inventory to decide data
acquisition, post-processing, …
– Each partner to create digitisation schedule
– Case studies
Formats for Europeana
Metadata and thesauri
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13. Digitisation & scanning
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14. The end result
3D-ICONS will use the CARARE aggregation service
– ORE OAI aggregation
– Linked Open Data
3D-ICONS will create a production pipeline
– Flexibility in data creation
– Advanced semantics/rich metadata
– Quality assurance
– Business model
• Cost analysis, IPR, organizational models
– Attractiveness for end users.
3D-ICONS will an exemplar for making complex 3D models
available to the public domain.
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15. Any questions?
Co-ordinator: Prof. Franco Niccolucci
Email: Niccolucci@unifi.it
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