Discovering relationships between artefacts using 3D and semantic data June 2015 – May 2018
Discovering relationships between artefacts using 3D and
semantic data
June 2015 – May 2018
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Cyprus
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We can all do this jigsaw
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What if lots of pieces were missing?
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What if it was in 3D?
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Front Back
Faded
Cracked
Eroded
What if the pieces were 2500 years old, were all faded, cracked and with the edges worn away so that they didn’t actually fit together any more?
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British Museum Cyprus Museum
Ashmolean Museum Fitzwilliam Museum
What if the pieces were in 4 different museums?
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Jigsawsin 3D
most pieces missingall the edges worn off
many puzzles jumbled togetherpieces spread across many countries
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Re-AssemblyRe-UnificationRe-Association
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Re-Assembly
You have some (eroded) pieces.The computer fits them together.
This is hard in 2 dimensions, never mind in 3D!
Localised geometry
Surface texture descriptorsLocalised detail
Colour descriptors
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Re-Unification
Head in the British Museum
Statue in the Cyprus Museum
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Re-unify 3D models of the statue 3D print copies for re-unification Re-unify statue in a virtual tour
Re-Unification
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Re-Association
Artefact with semantic descriptionMaterial, decoration, size, shape, period, style, glaze, …
Data in another museum catalogue
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Re-Association
Find similarities leading to new insights about past cultures
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How?
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Geometric data, material data Point cloud, mesh Photos Shape, geometry
reassembly Curvature Colour(s)
UV light, pigments Pattern Texture
markings front & back manufacturing methods
Chemical composition x-ray fluorescence
Microscopic composition clay matrix, porosity
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Fracture
Fracture
External
Internal
3D model processing
Left Ear
Faceting
Describing
Annotating
Mating
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Semantic data, natural language data
CIDOC-CRM (“conceptual reference model”) ISO 21127:2006
Object type, place, date, material, style, people, institution, bibliography, dimensions, school, production technique, …
Object hasNote “…lots of free-form text added by the curator” Natural Language Processing (NLP) required to extract further information
The CRM harmonises knowledge to support discovery and enables knowledge collaboration
The British Museum has 2.5M objects described in CRM
provides definitions and a formal structure for describing the implicit and explicit concepts and relationships used in cultural heritage documentation.
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