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3D-COFORM

The 3D-COFORM project was established to advance the state-of-the-art in 3D-digitisation and make 3D-documentation available as a practical choice for digital documentation campaigns in the cultural heritage sector. The project has addressed the integration of all stages of the workflow involved in such a campaign and in the subsequent use of digital assets in research and dissemination to the public and professional alike.

The 3D-COFORM consortium brought together 19 partners to form a world class team on 3D-digitisation complemented by an equally prestigious group of Cultural Heritage organisations, with the Victoria and Albert Museum as a full partner and collaborations with the Louvre Museum, the Florentine Museums authority, World Heritage Sites in Cyprus, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the Brussels Museum of History and Art, and the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin amongst others.

Project aims

The 3D-COFORM consortium has one over-riding aim: to establish 3D documentation as an affordable, practical and effective mechanism for long term documentation of tangible cultural heritage. In order to make this happen the consortium is highly conscious that both the state of the art in 3D digitisation and the practical aspects of deployment in the sector must be addressed. Hence 3D-COFORM proposed an ambitious program of technical research, coupled with practical exercises and research in the business of 3D to inform and accelerate the deployment of these technologies to good effect.

Project findings and impact

3D-COFORM’s impact falls under two broad categories

  1. the impact from partners continuing to exploit their results in further research and sector engagement, and
  2. the impact achieved through spin-off activities such as the Virtual Competence Centre in 3D CIC Ltd (VCC-3D).

3D-COFORM recognised that public presentations, both in museums and over the internet, are important distribution channels for the digital assets produced by the project’s tools and through them for raising awareness of the tools and their underpinning technologies. Consequently, they are of strategic value, and providing high-end 3D-exhibits will stimulate demand for content and promotes understanding of 3D-COFORM technologies. The approach taken has therefore placed emphasis on mounting a public exhibition and then re-using the materials generated there in a program of public events, designed to further public and professional understanding of the potential of 3D technologies in the heritage field.

The Virtual Competence Centre in 3D CIC Ltd (VCC-3D) is a non-profit Community Interest Company established in the UK and is designed to provide the cultural heritage sector with advice, services, training and consultancy in the practical deployment of 3D digitisation at all stages of capturing and processing 3D artefacts, from documentation, through analysis and visualisation in the cultural heritage sector. This UK-based operation is able to operate internationally but it is also envisaged that similar organisational units, based with partners in other countries, may be more effective for legal and cultural reasons in achieving the objectives of the VCC-3D and would operate through collaborative arrangements with the VCC-3D.

Research team

Professor David Arnold

 

Output

3D COFORM Final report (pdf)

3D COFORM website

Partners

Technische Universitaet Graz,Austria

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, Zürich, Switzerland

The Cyprus Research and Educational Foundation, Cyprus

Rheinische Friedrich Wilhelms Universitat, Bonn, Germany

Spheronvr AG, Germany

Breuckmann GMBH, Germany

Fraunhofer Gesellschaft Zur Foerderung Der Angewandten Forschung E.V.,Germany

Center for Documentation of Cultural and Natural Heritage (Cultnat), Egypt

Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique Cnrs, France

Foundation for Research and Technology, Greece

Pin Soc Cons A.R.L - Servizi Didattici e Scientifici Per Universita Di Firenze, Italy

Universita Degli Studi Di Firenze, Italy

Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche, Italy

CMC Associates Ltd. United Kingdom

Victoria and Albert Museum, United Kingdom

University of Glasgow, United Kingdom

University of East Anglia, United Kingdom

Ministere de la Culture et de la Communication, France

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