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Capturing with Community: An Online Collaboration Platform for Cultural Heritage Practice
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Nagakura, Takehiko Peng, Wenzhe Villalon, Rachelle |
| Copyright Year | 2018 |
| Abstract | This paper introduces an online collaboration platform as means to facilitate a new type of cultural heritage practice. Over the past decade, capturing a 3D form and its texture has become easily attainable by anyone with an inexpensive device such as a smartphone in conjunction with photogrammetric modeling software. Consumer use now offers an opportunity for heritage documentation projects. Photogrammetric capture projects can collect a large amount of 3D data sampled on site through the help of untrained novices, rather than with skilled professionals utilizing special scanning or measurement equipment. However, unorganized 3D captures by novices are often fragmentary representations of parts of a site in varied qualities from different times. Taking advantage of the captured data requires placing them properly in the spatial and temporal context of the site and relating them to each other. MIT Design Heritage is a prototype online platform for posting, assembling and sharing 3D captures under development at MIT. Similar to 3D GIS software, it is a database and 3D visualization tool, with a toolset tailored to help individual participants share a communal project and integrate data collected by professionals and novices alike. This paper discusses the design requirements for this system and its deployment to various scenarios such as a private class, a public workshop, or a community event with open participation. Topics include handling of massive, heterogeneous 3D captures, optimization with multiple levels of detail, automation of assembly phases, a permission and moderation scheme for sharing and editing, communication among participants, and data extraction and visualization for story-telling. Examples are illustrated by recent cultural heritage projects including one in Machu Picchu. These projects demonstrate use cases that support the possibilities for forming a unique community of participatory practice around an effort to digitally preserve an important heritage sites. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://cat2.mit.edu/multirama/nagakura_sdh2018_dh.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://www.chnt.at/wp-content/uploads/eBook_CHNT22_Nagakura_etal.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
