A Social Platform to Support Citizens Reuse of Open 3D Visualisations: a Citizen Science Approach

Renato De Donato, Massimo De Santo, Alberto Negro, Donato Pirozzi, Diletta Rizzolo, Gianluca Santangelo, Vittorio Scarano
2018 Eurographics Workshop on Graphics and Cultural Heritage  
There is a growing interest in the world of Open Data, with many initiatives in the Cultural Heritage field. Platforms like Europeana, archive.org, Open Heritage by Google are only few examples of on-line catalogues full of open artefacts published with various formats. It is a new and promising way to engage public, such as, students, citizens, non-profit organisations. This paper faces the question of how to help audience in reusing Open 3D models and other artefacts available on Open
more » ... Heritage repositories. The idea is to provide a Social Platform named SPOD where citizens can visualise artefacts, share and comment with others in a social way to increase understanding, awareness and engagement in cultural heritage. The foundation is the Datalet-Ecosystem Provider (DEEP), an open source, extensible, scalable, and Edge-centric visualisation architecture to support reuse of visualisations of Open Data in Cultural Heritage. It consists of reusable, dynamic and interactive visualizations named datalets. It includes a variety of visualisations, charts, geographical maps and 3D visualisations. Datalets can be generated and embedded in any web-page as well. SPOD exploits the DEEP architecture to support users within the platform in generating visualisations of Open artefacts, reuse and share them within discussions.
doi:10.2312/gch.20181350 dblp:conf/vast/DonatoSNPRSS18 fatcat:bxeqj46qnranxbv7samk26hiuu