Archaeology & Cultural Heritage AWG Manolis Vavalis CERETETH

3D in A&CH increasing A&CH domain is characterized by an increasing volume of 3D digital content A large part of the European CH exists in digital collections (e.g. virtual museums, digital libraries, scientific repositories) 3D models and virtual spaces have huge potential for enhancing the way people interact with museum collections and structured e- learning environments attempt to answer challenging research questions.

Indicative Open Problems A&CH 3D digital libraries are becoming more and more demanding management, preservation, delivery mechanisms… 3D A&CH content often is hard to access and interpret held in multiple internal systems with non-standard schemas and descriptions. The unavoidable manual annotation of explicit semantics is not a practical approach especially when the number of resources is expected to grow fast.

Geometry & Knowledge Synergies: Search or Match content- and context-based (semantic) searching Perform content- and context-based (semantic) searching to retrieve 3D models, using any combination of text, 3D objects and ontology classifications. use/share in a simple way use/share in a simple way the scientific heritage partial matching partial matching and reconstruction of missing pieces

Geometry & Knowledge Synergies: Archaeology and Geosciences Archaeology Discovery & Integration with Geosciences Bring disparate datasets through a common reasoning system Develop conceptual workflows Reason on, and validate theoretical scenarios

Geometry & Knowledge Synergies: Virtual Reality Simulations Model architecture (theaters, mosques, monuments, …) Use behavioral animation techniques to model the movement, rituals, celebrations, and practices of people

Geometry & Knowledge Synergies: Automatic Identification The model input is processed for automated annotation A generic ontology is available The semantic analyzer combines the results of the annotations and the ontology to input it into the inference module Semantic Analyzer Generic ontology Instances of semantic information Automated annotation GUI Instantiated ontology Inference

Contacts and Keyplayers #contacts: 21 #questionnaires: 13 Purpose of use restoration, reconstruction, visualization, e-learning Variety of AWG members Museums, Companies, Universities, Research Institutes Application areas Archaeological investigations, Museum displays, Education, Serious Games Simulation & reconstruction of ancient processes / environments Virtual reality applications / Virtual cinema

Selected AWG members National Museum of Ethnology, Netherlands STARC - Cyprus Institute, Cyprus Cultural Technologies, Jordan MellaniuM, UK Hellenic World Foundation, Greece Alinari, Italy Arkaia SRL, Italy PUCRS University, Brazil Sabanci University - Computer Graphics Lab, Turkey Centro Interdipartimentale di Servizi di Archeologia – University of Naples L’Orientale, Italy

Connected to the other FocusK3D AWGs: Can the “Large Arch” be re-erected? Dismantled Travertine Sculpture Fiber glass Model Finite Element Analysis Solid Model Simulations

Connected to the other FocusK3D AWGs: Serious Games and A&CH

Geometry & Knowledge: synergies Automatic determination of artifact usage and implications 3D reconstruction by identifying or breaking assumptions

Scenarios in Archaeology & Cultural Heritage (1/2) “How you evaluate a CH digital artifact?” Existing and emerging electronic scholarly publication services include: The Archaeology Data Service, Internet Archaeology, Digital Humanities Quarterly, Serving and Archiving Virtual Environment How you peer review a CH shape? In a fair and undisputed manner? from a subjective view point? using a purely scientific methodology?

3D and knowledge in Archaeology & Cultural Heritage (2/2) interactions with precious artifacts without risk of damage provide documentation in case of loss or damage used for educational purposes, such as virtual museums/exhibits, virtual tourism and 3D visualization of city buildings and monuments.

Geometry & Knowledge: synergies (1/3) A Multi-disciplinary Effort Clearly define the interfaces between disciplines Identify and map existing related work in each discipline An “Information System” component is needed Semantic Integration & Interoperability