The main objective of 3D-COFORM is to make the use of 3D digital artefacts a practical and standard way of documenting physical cultural heritage. To achieve this, a number of contributing objectives need to be achieved:
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to advance the state of the art in 3D-digitisation tools for 3D shape, surface type and material acquisition (addressing both active and passive acquisition methods), improving the range of shapes and materials which can be digitized, the fidelity of representation, the ergonomics of the acquisition processes and hence reducing the per-item digitisation cost.
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to create an open, integrated platform for the construction and management of 3D artefacts by augmenting the 3D-models with their metadata and additional information,
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Develop integrated management of the related metadata regarding
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model structure and parameters, relations of models to modelled objects and their coordinates;
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digital provenance, i.e. employed sources, processes, tools and parameters;
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description and semantic classification of the modelled objects, their parts and employed analogies, their location, history and cultural-historical associations.
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links to other sources and expert annotations about modelling assumptions and related cultural-historical data.
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to provide facilities to allow 3D artefacts to be embedded into a collection repository, developed using existing technology and standards where possible, to ingest, store, manipulate and export complex digital objects, their components and related metadata and enable efficient access, use, reuse and preservation
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to use innovative algorithms to enrich metadata semantically from other sources, as automatically as possible, and to provide search mechanisms, using semantics from multiple domains (e.g. materials, geometry and text).
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to ensure referential and semantic integrity over the production, storage, use, manipulation and re-use of 3D-digital assets.
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to provide a defined API to the repository functionality to allow others to implement applications based on the repository of 3D artefacts.
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to develop integrated access to models, their metadata and related resources by an innovative combination of content-based and metadata(semantics)-based indices and querying mechanism
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to develop tools for CH professionals, supporting the visualization and analysis of digital 3D assets, and tools for dissemination to the public, supporting inspection, navigation and authoring
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to conduct experiments in field deployment of 3D digitisation tools as part of documentation campaigns to increase understanding of the practical challenges of mass digitisation.
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to understand the potential socio-economic impact of 3D collections for the owners of 3D content
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to establish a sustainable Virtual Centre of Competence in support of the digitisation campaigns of cultural heritage institutions and of tools to assist organisations and individuals engaged in capturing user-created content
