Digital Heritage 2015

Optical Close Range Measurement Techniques for Cultural Heritage From 3D Data Generation to Analysis – with Hands-on Demonstration
Dirk Rieke-Zapp, Bernd Breuckmann and Vera Moitinho

This tutorial is aimed at novice as well as advanced users and people interested in optical close range metrology systems for collection of 3-dimensional data from cultural heritage objects. The authors will present a short overview of available measurement tools with special emphasis on fringe projection scanners that will be on display for hands-on demonstration in the second part of the tutorial. The three presentations are concerned with an introduction to close range 3-dimensional scanning in cultural heritage from acquisition to analysis of the collected data. Advantages as well as shortcomings of different metrology systems will be highlighted and an outlook towards future hardware and software solutions for faster, more automated scanning and analysis will be presented.


Outline

• 3D documentation of cultural heritage objects in museums and collections – state-of-the-art and future outlook. Dirk Rieke-Zapp, 20 min. + 10 min. discussion. This presentation will present current state-of-the–art technology of optical close range metrology with special emphasis on fringe projection systems. It will set the stage for the following talk as well as the hands-on part on more detailed concepts and applications. Results from different research projects will be utilized to visualize and compare different techniques and to show developments that may be expected in the near future.
• Metrology aspects in 3D scanning. Bernd Breuckmann, 20 min. + 10 min. discussion. 3D scanners are mainly used as digitization or measuring device. It is evident that the specifications of a measuring device must be verified at regular intervals, in particular for industrial purposes. However, a lot of users in cultural heritage are not aware of such need or they are not familiar with the corresponding procedures. However for documentation, archiving and any kind of measuring purpose it is essential, that the user is verifying the relevant quality parameters, especially the measuring accuracy.
• Quantitative analysis of rock cultural heritage objects – from field data acquisition towards analysis and interpretation. Vera Moitinho, 20 min. presentation + 10 min. discussion. The aim of this presentation is to provide meaningful information towards a better comprehension of Cultural Heritage (CH) objects. Different strategies for field data acquisition (3D scanning), processing, description and geometrical analysis are presented, in order to understand to what extent distinct methodological approaches and technical choices determine the analysis and interpretation of CH objects.

Optical Close Range Measurement Techniques for Cultural Heritage From 3D data Generation to Analysis – with Hands-on Demonstration
Dirk Rieke-Zapp, Bernd Breuckmann and Vera Moitinho

This tutorial is aimed at novice as well as advanced users and people interested in optical close range metrology systems for collection of 3-dimensional data from cultural heritage objects. The authors will present a short overview of available measurement tools with special emphasis on fringe projection scanners that will be on display for hands-on demonstration in the second part of the tutorial. The three presentations are concerned with an introduction to close range 3-dimensional scanning in cultural heritage from acquisition to analysis of the collected data. Advantages as well as shortcomings of different metrology systems will be highlighted and an outlook towards future hardware and software solutions for faster, more automated scanning and analysis will be presented.


Outline

• 3D documentation of cultural heritage objects in museums and collections – state-of-the-art and future outlook. Dirk Rieke-Zapp, 20 min. + 10 min. discussion. This presentation will present current state-of-the–art technology of optical close range metrology with special emphasis on fringe projection systems. It will set the stage for the following talk as well as the hands-on part on more detailed concepts and applications. Results from different research projects will be utilized to visualize and compare different techniques and to show developments that may be expected in the near future.
• Metrology aspects in 3D scanning. Bernd Breuckmann, 20 min. + 10 min. discussion. 3D scanners are mainly used as digitization or measuring device. It is evident that the specifications of a measuring device must be verified at regular intervals, in particular for industrial purposes. However, a lot of users in cultural heritage are not aware of such need or they are not familiar with the corresponding procedures. However for documentation, archiving and any kind of measuring purpose it is essential, that the user is verifying the relevant quality parameters, especially the measuring accuracy.
• Quantitative analysis of rock cultural heritage objects – from field data acquisition towards analysis and interpretation. Vera Moitinho, 20 min. presentation + 10 min. discussion. The aim of this presentation is to provide meaningful information towards a better comprehension of Cultural Heritage (CH) objects. Different strategies for field data acquisition (3D scanning), processing, description and geometrical analysis are presented, in order to understand to what extent distinct methodological approaches and technical choices determine the analysis and interpretation of CH objects.

TAG CLOUD INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP: Engaging and governing in the Cultural Heritage services
Maria Eugenia Beltran, Silvia de Los Rios Perez and Belen Prados

The TAG CLOUD international workshop will bring together researchers and practitioners who are working on various aspects of cultural heritage, and are interested in exploring the potential of state of the art technologies (onsite as well as online), to enhance the Cultural Heritage visit experience as well as to increase engagement with this area. The workshop will provide multidisciplinary perspectives from different research lines that will inform on future research directions as well as to forge further collaborations aiming at boosting lifelong cultural heritage experiences.

The target audience: researchers, academics and scientist in cultural heritage, education, curatorship and other areas related with culture and ICT.

10:00 - Welcome and Opening Session
Dr. Maria Fernanda Cabrera-Umpierrez. TAG CLOUD Project Coordinator (UPM)

• Mr. Reynaldo Fernández Manzano, Director of the Patronato de la Alhambra y el Generalife.
• Dr. Eurydice Georganteli. University of Birmingham: Urban Heritage in Southeastern Europe: Challenges and Opportunities in the Digital Era.
• Eng. Silvia de los Ríos Pérez. Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. COOLTURA by TAG CLOUD.

11:30 - SESSION 1: Challenges for user experiences and new technologies in Cultural Heritage
Chair: M.Sc. Arun Prakash (Fraunhofer Fokus)

• Dr. Daniela Petrelli. Sheffield Hallam University. The challenges of MeSch Project.
• Dr. Jacqueline Floch. SINTEF IC. Storytelling in the COOLTURA platform.
• Mr. Matthew Luke Vincent. Universidad de Murcia. ITN-DCH Project. / Project Mosul - crowdsourcing

12:15 - SESSION 2: Challenges when implementing new technologies in the cloud
Chair: Dr. Luke Speller (BMT Group) 

• Ms. Holly Wright. York University. LoCloud project findings.
• Dr. Stefano Bortoli. Technical Director of the OKKAM S.R.L. Personalization in COOLTURA.
• Mr. Arun Prakash/Santosh Kumar Rajaguru. Fraunhofer FOKUS. Open Data Harvesters for Digital Cultural Data Management.

13:00 - SESSION 3: Cultural services and governance through new technologies (Round Table )
Moderator: Eng. Maria Eugenia Beltran (INMARK)
Participants: Dr. Luke Speller (BMT Group); Mr. Jochen Meis (GeoMobile), Dr. Holly Wright (York University), Mr. Matthew Vincent (Universidad de Murcia), Dr. Eurydice Georganteli (the Barber Institute).

TAG Cloud International Workshop: Engaging and Governing in the Cultural Heritage Services
Maria Eugenia Beltran, Silvia de Los Rios Perez and Belen Prados

The TAG CLOUD international workshop will bring together researchers and practitioners who are working on various aspects of cultural heritage, and are interested in exploring the potential of state of the art technologies (onsite as well as online), to enhance the Cultural Heritage visit experience as well as to increase engagement with this area. The workshop will provide multidisciplinary perspectives from different research lines that will inform on future research directions as well as to forge further collaborations aiming at boosting lifelong cultural heritage experiences.

The target audience: researchers, academics and scientist in cultural heritage, education, curatorship and other areas related with culture and ICT.

10:00 - Welcome and Opening Session
Dr. Maria Fernanda Cabrera-Umpierrez. TAG CLOUD Project Coordinator (UPM)

• Mr. Reynaldo Fernández Manzano, Director of the Patronato de la Alhambra y el Generalife.
• Dr. Eurydice Georganteli. University of Birmingham: Urban Heritage in Southeastern Europe: Challenges and Opportunities in the Digital Era.
• Eng. Silvia de los Ríos Pérez. Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. COOLTURA by TAG CLOUD.

11:30 - SESSION 1: Challenges for user experiences and new technologies in Cultural Heritage
Chair: M.Sc. Arun Prakash (Fraunhofer Fokus)

• Dr. Daniela Petrelli. Sheffield Hallam University. The challenges of MeSch Project.
• Dr. Jacqueline Floch. SINTEF IC. Storytelling in the COOLTURA platform.
• Mr. Matthew Luke Vincent. Universidad de Murcia. ITN-DCH Project. / Project Mosul - crowdsourcing

12:15 - SESSION 2: Challenges when implementing new technologies in the cloud
Chair: Dr. Luke Speller (BMT Group) 

• Ms. Holly Wright. York University. LoCloud project findings.
• Dr. Stefano Bortoli. Technical Director of the OKKAM S.R.L. Personalization in COOLTURA.
• Mr. Arun Prakash/Santosh Kumar Rajaguru. Fraunhofer FOKUS. Open Data Harvesters for Digital Cultural Data Management.

13:00 - SESSION 3: Cultural services and governance through new technologies (Round Table )
Moderator: Eng. Maria Eugenia Beltran (INMARK)
Participants: Dr. Luke Speller (BMT Group); Mr. Jochen Meis (GeoMobile), Dr. Holly Wright (York University), Mr. Matthew Vincent (Universidad de Murcia), Dr. Eurydice Georganteli (the Barber Institute).
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Virtualization and the Democratization of Heritage and Archaeology
Herbert Maschner and Matthew Vincent

This panel will highlight and openly discuss a new multi-million dollar research initiative to make some of the world important archaeological collections available on line for global research access. The key to making archaeological collections relevant in the twenty-first century is through the creation of virtual repositories with built –in analytical tools. While many museums and archaeological repositories are now making efforts in 3D visualization, virtual collections, and integrated database management presentations, we must take this further by putting entire collections online in a virtual repository. The goal of the Democratization of Science Project is to use 3D technologies to put entire archaeological collections, or entire museums, online so that any student, any child, any scientist, or any politician, anywhere, can do their own analyses. We suspect that important scientific and educational advancements are often not made simply because people do not have access to the collections. We hope to change this by democratizing access through virtualization, and we have developed the model for how this should be done and implemented the first examples. A new global $10 million project has been funded to get this initiative started.

Herbert Maschner (15min)

• What we are doing
• Why we are doing it
• Issues of Access to Data
• Not a Virtual Museum

Matthew Vincent (30 min)

• The Virtual Repository
• The User Experience
• The User Interface
• Conducting online research
• Media

Corentin Metgy (20 min)

• Private industry and Cultural Heritage
• The 3D Revolution
• Heritage Business Models

Herbert Maschner (30 min)

• The Big Picture
• The Politics of Open Science in Archaeology and Heritage
• The Democratization of Science – Heritage Model
• Call to Action – The Democratization of Heritage Project

17:00-17:15
232 - Marcello Carrozzino, Cristian Lorenzini, Chiara Evangelista, Franco Tecchia and Massimo Bergamasco
AMICA: Virtual Reality as a Tool for Learning and Communicating the Craftsmanship of Engraving

17:15-17:30
248 - Kevin Jacquot, Tommy Messaoudi and Livio De Luca
Knowledge-based Approach for the 3D Modeling of Masonry Structures

17:30-17:45
299 - Shadrack Katuu and Mpho Ngoepe
Managing Digital Heritage – an Analysis of the Education and Training Curriculum for Africa’s Archives and Records Professionals

17:45-18:00
335 - Isabella Gagliardi and Maria Teresa Artese
Create Your Menu: Discovering Traditional Recipes

18:00-18:15
84 - Muqeem Khan
Archive To Repertoire: Motion Capture & Motion Sensing Data For Digital Intangible Heritage (DIH)

18:15-18:30
316 - Maria Teresa Artese and Isabella Gagliardi
Carousel Rides: New Tools for Navigation in Intangible Cultural Heritage

18:30-18:45
384 - Huaxiang He
The Lost of Myth in the Digital Age: A Study Based on Investigation of China's Guangxi Province

18:45-19:00
397 - Giuliana De Francesco, Monika Hagedorn-Saupe, Maria Teresa Natale and Werner Schweibenz
Digital Exhibitions, a Powerful Tool for Cultural Institutions Audience Development : The Athenaplus-supported International Working Group on Digital Exhibitions

11:30-11:45
255 - Edeltraud Aspöck and Anja Masur
Digitizing Early Farming Cultures: Customizing the Arches Heritage Inventory & Management System

11:45-12:00
302 - Giovanni Michetti
Preservation as a Service for Trust (PaaST)

12:00-12:10
349 - Mehdi Belarbi, Aurelia Lureau and Pascal Raymond
Creating an Online Interactive Database for Tridimensional Models in Preventive Archaeology at the La Courneuve Base of the INRAP ( French National Institute of Research in Preventive Archaeology)

12:15-12:30
413 - Michael Page, Jeffrey Glover, Joe Hurley and Brennan Collins
Digital Atlanta: A Collaborative Approach to Remapping Atlanta’s Past

12:30-12:45
412 - Serdar Aydin and Marc Aurel Schnabel
Decoding Kashgar

12:45-13:00
277 - Bogdan Stojanovic
Social Media Mapping, as a Catalyst for Social Realm Actions

341 - Manuela Bassetta, Francesca Fatta and Rossella Agostino
Young People for an Interactive Archaeology in Calabria

355 - Lenka Chadimova
Creation of 3D Models of Chosen Historical Buildings for Supporting Knowledge Transfer

358 - Carmen Díaz-Marín, Elvira Aura-Castro, Carlos Sánchez-Belenguer, Eduardo Vendrell-Vidal, Andrea F. Abate and Fabio Narducci
Virtual Reconstruction and Representation of an Archaeological Terracotta Statue

365 - Giovanni Pilato and Umberto Maniscalco
Soft Sensors for Social Sensing in Cultural Heritage

367 - Simona Giglio, Francesca Bertacchini, Lorella Gabriele, Pietro Salvatore Pantano, Assunta Tavernise and Eleonora Bilotta
Virtual Museums and Calabrian Cultural Heritage: Projects and Challenges

377 - Christos Koutsaftis and Andreas Georgopoulos
A Serious Game in the Stoa of Attalos: Edutainment, Heritage Values and Authenticity

411 - Jose Bellido de Luna and Rodney Bellido de Luna
Digital Preservation of Santa Lucia Hill

418 - David C. Moffat
Serious Games for Interactive Stories about Emotionally Challenging Heritage

44 - Georgios Styliaras and Nota Pantzou
On a Web-based Archaeological Excavation Platform for Smartphones: Review and Case Studies

400 - Nicola Schiavottiello
ArkTeller: A New 3d Real-time Storytelling Platform for Cultural Heritage Interpretation

402 - Virginia Cirilli
Hypercolumna: An Archaelogical Hub for a New Way to Do Culture

408 - Sara Esposito, Giulia Armone, Elisabetta De Sanctis, Maximilian Ventura and Maria Letizia Vinci
Technological Solutions for an Innovative Fruition - The “Museo delle Terme di Diocleziano” Project

204 - Moritz Kinzel and Mina Tanaka
Imagining the Past. Visitor Specific Applications for Al Zubarah Archaeological Site, Qatar

267 - Maja Lavrič
3D Reconstruction of a Balneum in a Roman Villa Rustica, Mošnje, Slovenia

297 - Lydia Kotoula and Andreas Georgopoulos
Digital Documentation for the Restoration of the Anargyros Mansion

261 - Luis Hernandez and Viviana Barneche Naya
An Enhanced Navigation Kit for Virtual Heritage Exploration Using a Game Engine

303 - Julian Llanos
Is It Possible a Virtual-Eco-Museum?

265 - Phil Morris and Stephanie Marsh
Reconstructing a Historical Temporary Structure : Henry VIII’s Pop-up-Palace

17:00-17:15
270 - Copper Giloth and Jonathan Tanant
User Experiences in Three Approaches to a Visit to a 3D Labyrinthe of Versaille

17:15-17:30
323 - Willem Vletter
Using a Gaming Engine for Historical Road and Path Research

17:30-17:45
359 - João Gouveia, Fernando Branco, Armanda Rodrigues and Nuno Correia
Travelling Through Space and Time in Lisbon's Religious Buildings

17:45-18:00
244 - Park Jinho, Muhammad Tufail and Kim Jisoo
A Virtual Reality Platform for 3D Representation of Seokguram Grotto World Heritage Site

18:00-18:15
387 - Giasemi Vavoula, Maria-Anna Tseliou, Sally Coleman, Rheinallt Ffoster-Jones, Paul Long and Esther Simpson
Leicester Castle Tells its Story: Beacon-based Mobile Interpretation for Historic Buildings

18:15-18:30
391 - John Tredinnick and Paul Richens
A Fulldome Interactive Visitor Experience: A Novel Approach to Delivering Interactive Virtual Heritage Experiences to Group Audiences in Full Dome Projection Spaces, Evaluated Through Spatial Awareness and Emotional Response.

The Role of Similarity in the Re-unification, Re-assembly and Re-association of 3D Artefacts
Michela Spagnuolo and Bianca Falcidieno

Digital manipulation and analysis of tangible cultural objects has the potential to bring about a revolution in the way classification, stylistic analysis, or refitting of fragments is handled in the cultural heritage area: 3D modelling, processing and analysis are now mature enough to allow handling 3D digitized objects as if they were physical, and semantic models allow for a rich documentation of many different aspects of artefacts or assets of any complexity, as well as of contextual information about them.

In this context, the workshop was promoted by the recently started EC project GRAVITATE with the aim of bringing together researchers and professionals in Cultural Heritage contributing their perspective on the impact of digital techniques on re-­unification, re-assembly and re-­association of fragmented or dispersed cultural assets. Similarity evaluation is underlying most of these challenges. Comparative reasoning on artefacts and artifact's properties may relate to geometric attributes (e.g., spatial extent, aspect), to colorimetric properties (e.g., colour, texture), to specific traits that fragments exhibit (e.g., decorations), or to metadata documenting the artefacts. The workshop programme will give an overview of how computational similarity is addressed by ongoing research activities and European projects, and how it can be used at the geometric and semantic level for artefact and fragment analysis, supported by advanced digitalization techniques.

The workshop programme can be of interest for scientists and CH professionals and  curators, who could learn about the  recent developments in the field of shape analysis and semantic description of 3D digital artefacts and contribute to the discussion with their own experience.

Part I (10:00 -­ 11:00)

• 10:00 -­ 10:10 The Role of Similarity in the Re-­unification, Re-­assembly and Re-­association of 3D Artefacts: An Introduction to the Workshop -­ Bianca Falcidieno, Michela Spagnuolo
• 10:10 -­ 10:35 The Salamis Terracotta Statues – A Multidisciplinary Research Approach -­ Sorin Hermon, Vera Moitinho de Almeida
• 10:35 -­ 11:00 Scan4Reco: Characterization of Artworks Material Through Photometric and Microscopic Analysis - Anastasios Drosou, Dimitrios Tzovaras, Claudia Daffara, Andrea Giachetti, Carlo Reghelin, Enrico Gobbetti, Ruggero Pintus

The Role of Similarity in the Re-unification, Re-assembly and Re-association of 3D Artefacts
Michela Spagnuolo and Bianca Falcidieno

Digital manipulation and analysis of tangible cultural objects has the potential to bring about a revolution in the way classification, stylistic analysis, or refitting of fragments is handled in the cultural heritage area: 3D modelling, processing and analysis are now mature enough to allow handling 3D digitized objects as if they were physical, and semantic models allow for a rich documentation of many different aspects of artefacts or assets of any complexity, as well as of contextual information about them.

In this context, the workshop was promoted by the recently started EC project GRAVITATE with the aim of bringing together researchers and professionals in Cultural Heritage contributing their perspective on the impact of digital techniques on re-­unification, re-assembly and re-­association of fragmented or dispersed cultural assets. Similarity evaluation is underlying most of these challenges. Comparative reasoning on artefacts and artifact's properties may relate to geometric attributes (e.g., spatial extent, aspect), to colorimetric properties (e.g., colour, texture), to specific traits that fragments exhibit (e.g., decorations), or to metadata documenting the artefacts. The workshop programme will give an overview of how computational similarity is addressed by ongoing research activities and European projects, and how it can be used at the geometric and semantic level for artefact and fragment analysis, supported by advanced digitalization techniques.

The workshop programme can be of interest for scientists and CH professionals and  curators, who could learn about the  recent developments in the field of shape analysis and semantic description of 3D digital artefacts and contribute to the discussion with their own experience.

Part II (11:30 -­ 13:30)

• 11:30 -­ 11:55 The Application of Semantic Techniques to CH Artifact Description, Contextualisation and Discovery of Associative Relationships Between Artifacts -­ Paul W Walland
• 11:55 -­ 12:20 Addressing Similarities for Predictive Digitisation, Re-­assembly and Completion of 3D Cultural Heritage Objects in the PRESIOUS Project - T. Theoharis, I. Pratikakis, G. Papaioannou, T. Schreck, D. Rieke-­Zapp, A. Andreadis, F. Arnaoutoglou, R. Gregor,P. Mavridis,  M. Savelonas, k. Sfikas, I. Sipiran, K. Vardis
• 12:20 -­ 12:45 3D Artifacts Similarity Based on the Concurrent Evaluation of Heterogeneous Properties - Silvia Biasotti, Andrea Cerri, Bianca Falcidieno, Michela Spagnuolo
• 12:45 -­ 13:10 What do Thirty-­one Columns Say About a Thirty-­second? - Livio De Luca
• 13:10 -­ 13:30 Closing Discussion

14:30-14:45
287 - Jihong Liang, Linqing Ma and Yunpeng Wu
Digitizing the Culture of Beijing–– An Introduction of the Memories of Beijing Project

14:45-15:00
198 - Matthew Vincent, Chance Coughenour, Fabio Remondino, Mariano Flores Gutiérrez, Victor Manuel Lopez-Menchero Bendicho and Dieter Fritsch
Crowd-sourcing the 3D Digital Reconstructions of Lost Cultural Heritage

15:00-15:15
201 - Laugee Thierry
PATRINAT : The Drawings in Buffon’s Histoire Naturelle, Towards a Digitized Heritage

15:15-15:30
281 - Willem Vletter
OCHRE a Powerful Tool for Culture Historical Research. A Chronological Model for Historical Roads and Paths

15:30-15:45
318 - Cecilia Vilca, Luis Enrique Castillo, Gladys Ocharan Velasquez and Marco Sarmento
The Chimu Offerings: Integration of Applied Science and New Media in the Preservation and Dissemination of Prehispanic Heritage

15:45-16:00
343 - Elizabeth Shotton
Minor Harbours of the East Coast of Ireland

16:00-16:15
348 - Dominique Rissolo, Alberto Nava Blank, Vid Petrovic, Roberto Chavez Arce, Corey Jaskolski, Pilar Luna Erreguerena and James C. Chatters
Novel Application of 3D Documentation Techniques at a Submerged Late Pleistocene Cave Site in Quintana Roo, Mexico

16:15-16:30
395 - Lola Vico and Sorin Hermon
Santa Cristina Sacred Well: from the 3D Analysis to Labour Investment