Ariadne is an EU-funded project providing a portal for researchers to access archaeological datasets and tools for visual media services and landscape services. It offers various visual data production and web visualization tools, including Meshlab and 3DHop, as well as collaborative web GIS services for managing 2D/3D environments. The project also includes training programs and bursaries for individuals interested in digital curation and scientific datasets.

1. ARIADNE is funded by the European Commission's Seventh Framework Programme
ARIADNE services
Holly Wright, ADS
Kate Fernie, 2Culture Associates

2. Overview
• Portal
• Visual Media Services
• Landscape Services
• Call for applications

3. Portal demo

4. Visual media data
Visual Media Data: any type of visual
representation of Archaeological sites or
objects:
• Standard 2D images (high-resolution)
• Advanced 2D images (PTM, RTI,
panoramic images, HDR)
• 3D models (single or complex scenes)
• Videos
• GIS data

5. Services offered by ARIADNE
• Production of visual data: MeshLab (CNR-ISTI)
• Publication of 3D data on the web: 3D-HOP (CNR-ISTI)
• ARIADNE Visual Media Service (CNR-ISTI)
• Geographical data (Production & Visualisation): Landscape
Services (CNR-ITABC)

6. MeshLab
• OpenSource tool (GPL) supporting
mesh processing and visualisation of
triangle meshes
• Started as an academic project
• Evolved to a complete and
sophisticated system
• Downloaded by >350,000 users by
2013, worldwide
• Leading open platform for mesh
editing of sampled 3D data
http://meshlab.sourceforge.net/
CNR-ISTI

7. MeshLab: training and support
• ARIADNE partners have good experience of the production of visual
media (2D and 3)
• CNR-ISTI supports this activity (TNA, summer schools and training)
– http://www.ariadne-infrastructure.eu/Services/Transnational-Access/2016-
TNA-Call/TNA-school-3D-Pisa
• Video tutorials are available for MeshLab:
– A series of short videos, each dedicated to a specific functionality
– Delivered via YouTube for
free:http://www.youtube.com/user/MrPMeshLabTutorials?feature=mhee

8. 3DHOP: Visual data on the web
• 3D visualization on web pages is now possible with
WebGL & SpiderGL
• CNR’s “3DHOP” (3D Heritage Online Presenter) can
be used to simplify the production of web-based
presentations or installations:
http://vcg.isti.cnr.it/3dhop/

9. Visual media service
http://visual.ariadne-infrastructure.eu/

10. Visual media service
Conversion of data assets to a web-compliant
format, thus supporting easy publication and
visualization on the web
• 3D models
• Reflection Transformation Images (RTI)
• High Resolution 2D images
• High Dynamic Range (HDR) images

11. Visual media service: user perspective
• For each visual media asset:
– The user fills a simple form and uploads the data
file
– An automatic service on the ARIADNE server will
open, convert, transform in a browsable page
and output the URL (or a .zip file) to the user
– The user links the media asset in his archive
using the provided URL

12. Demo
http://visual.ariadne-infrastructure.eu/

13. Details page for each media type
• Describes the media type and the services that are
offered: conversion, streaming, visualisation on the
web, etc.

14. Browse
http://visual.ariadne-infrastructure.eu/browse
• Users can search and browse the content that has
already been uploaded

15. Uploading your media
• For each media asset the
user fills in a simple form:
– Email, name institution
– Label, title, description,
tabs, url for a page
describing the asset
– Copyright owner
– Collection (optional)
– You can ask to keep the
object private
• Select file to upload
• Accept terms and
conditions
• And upload!

16. Viewing results – 3D
http://visual.ariadne-infrastructure.eu/3d/arringatore
80.23 MB
3D model of the
Arringatore
produced by 3D
laser scanning
National
Archaeological
Museum and
CNR-ISTI

17. Viewing results – RTI
http://visual.ariadne-infrastructure.eu/rti/mediallion_hadrian_reverse
199.4 mb
Reverse, Medallion,
Rome, Hadrian
Palazzo Blu, ISTI-CNR,
Simoneschi collection

18. Viewing results – HRI
12.29 mb
Capsella Samagher, a
reliquary in carved ivory
National Archaeological
Museum in Venice and
CNR-ISTI
http://visual.ariadne-infrastructure.eu/img/capsella_samagher_photo

19. Visual media service: Help
http://visual.ariadne-infrastructure.eu/help

20. ARIADNE landscape services
http://landscape.ariadne-infrastructure.eu/

21. Landscape services
• These online services focus on the generation
and management of 2D / 3D interactive WebGIS
environments in a collaborative way, through
open-source frameworks.
• Web services include:
– Cloud services
– 3D Terrain Services
– Tools for visualization, interaction and editing
– Distributed composing services
– 2D services

22. Cloud service
• You can register as a single user, a research
group or a whole institution
• Users can upload, manage and modify data
involved in processing tasks (both input and
output).
• The ARIADNE Service use ownCloud, which
has been customized
• Services are optimized for desktop and
mobile with full support for mobile and
desktop clients.
http://landscape.ariadne-infrastructure.eu/oc/

23. 3D Terrain Service: registering
• To start a 3D Terrain project you first need to
register and log in to the Cloud service

24. 3D Terrain Service: upload
• Data (DTMs/DEMs, Geo-images, ESRI shape files)
for your 3D terrain project is uploaded to the
Cloud service

25. 3D Terrain Service: output
• Next you specify the output to control how your
3D terrain model will be generated or published

26. 3D Terrain Service: processing
• The services will list your available input data
• Responsive web interfaces for user tasks
– customization of different parameters (database
resolution, extents, imagery attributes, etc.).
• Web servers then process the data and alert you
once 3D terrain data processing has completed

27. Landscape services: Terrain Gallery
• Browse sample datasets
• View your own datasets (when logged in)
http://landscape.ariadne-infrastructure.eu/gallery.php

28. View and download options
You can also fully delete a 3D terrain and its related data (it will NOT
delete the cloud input data) – but don’t delete the sample datasets!.

29. Embed options
You can embed a
3D scene in your
web-page
And share the
current point of
view.

30. Call for applications
• Summer schools:
– Digital curation of archaeological knowledge,
Athens, 12-17 June
– 3D documentation, Pisa, 20-24 June
– Archaeological datasets, Pisa, 4-8 July
• Individual training
– Mapping existing data to CIDOC CRM, Prato
– Design of scientific datasets, Prato
• Bursaries available!
http://www.ariadne-infrastructure.eu/Services/Transnational-
Access/2016-TNA-Call

31. Talking points
Ariadne was the daughter of Minos, King of Crete.
She gave a all of thread to Theseus so that he could find his way
out of the Minotaur's labyrinth.
Our ARIADNE is a research infrastructure.
We give a portal so researchers can find archaeological datasets
and tools to visualise and publish their results.

32. Acknowledgements
• ARIADNE portal developed by
• Visual Media Services developed by Roberto Scopigno et al, Visual Computing
Lab - ISTI - CNR
• Landscape Services developed by Bruno Fanini, Sofia Pescarin and Augusto
Palombini, VHLab - CNR ITABC
ARIADNE is a project funded by the European Commission under the Community’s
Seventh Framework Programme, contract no. FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2012-1-
313193.