ViSMan-DHER Project Dipartimento di Archeologia - Università di Bologna - www. unibo . it | VisIT Lab – Cineca - www. cineca . it _______________________________________ November, tue 9th 2010, Limassol ViSMan-DHER Project Integrated Fruition of Archaeological Data through a Scientific Virtual Model Dipartimento di Archeologia, Università di Bologna Daniela Scagliarini, Antonella Coralini VisIT Lab, Cineca Antonella Guidazzoli, Elena Toffalori ________________________________________
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ViSMan-DHER Project
Dipartimento di Archeologia - Università di Bologna - www.unibo.it | VisIT Lab – Cineca - www.cineca.it
_______________________________________
November, tue 9th 2010, Limassol
ViSMan-DHER ProjectIntegrated Fruition of Archaeological Data
through a Scientific Virtual Model
Dipartimento di Archeologia, Università di BolognaDaniela Scagliarini, Antonella Coralini
VisIT Lab, CinecaAntonella Guidazzoli, Elena Toffalori
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ViSMan-DHER Project
Dipartimento di Archeologia - Università di Bologna - www.unibo.it | VisIT Lab – Cineca - www.cineca.it
Summary
! The DHER Project at Herculaneum
! ViSMan: a Tool for Virtual Archaeology
! An Application: Integrated Fruition of Data
! Issues and achievements: an evaluation
ViSMan-DHER Project
Dipartimento di Archeologia - Università di Bologna - www.unibo.it | VisIT Lab – Cineca - www.cineca.it
DHER Project
VISMAN
APPLICATION
ISSUES
! The DHER Project at Herculaneum
ViSMan-DHER Project
Dipartimento di Archeologia - Università di Bologna - www.unibo.it | VisIT Lab – Cineca - www.cineca.it
DHER Project
VISMAN
APPLICATION
ISSUES
< Archaeological Area ofHerculaneum: a view around1950
Università di Bologna hasbeen working in Pompeiiand Herculaneum since1997 with the VesuvianaProject
ViSMan-DHER Project
Dipartimento di Archeologia - Università di Bologna - www.unibo.it | VisIT Lab – Cineca - www.cineca.it
DHER Project
VISMAN
APPLICATION
ISSUES
<ArchaeologicalArea ofHerculaneum:plan, streets
Starting from 2005 research has been focusingon the ancient city of Herculaneum, with theDHER Project (Domus Herculanensis Rationes)
ViSMan-DHER Project
Dipartimento di Archeologia - Università di Bologna - www.unibo.it | VisIT Lab – Cineca - www.cineca.it
DHER Project
VISMAN
APPLICATION
ISSUES
<ArchaeologicalArea ofHerculaneum:Insula III
Insula III and its main buildings (romanhouses) were studied in detail, and with amultidisciplinary approach
ViSMan-DHER Project
Dipartimento di Archeologia - Università di Bologna - www.unibo.it | VisIT Lab – Cineca - www.cineca.it
DHER Project
VISMAN
APPLICATION
ISSUES
<ArchaeologicalArea ofHerculaneum:Some of thestudied RomanHouses
...Especially the so-called House of theSkeleton, House of the Bronze Herm, House ofthe Wooden Partition...
ViSMan-DHER Project
Dipartimento di Archeologia - Università di Bologna - www.unibo.it | VisIT Lab – Cineca - www.cineca.it
DHER Project
VISMAN
APPLICATION
ISSUES
< House of theS k e l e t o n :current aspect
The focus of DHER Project is on the study ofhouse and household
ViSMan-DHER Project
Dipartimento di Archeologia - Università di Bologna - www.unibo.it | VisIT Lab – Cineca - www.cineca.it
DHER Project
VISMAN
APPLICATION
ISSUES
< House of theSkeleton: viewof the Atriumfrom N-W
The focus of DHER Project is on the study ofhouse and household
ViSMan-DHER Project
Dipartimento di Archeologia - Università di Bologna - www.unibo.it | VisIT Lab – Cineca - www.cineca.it
DHER Project
VISMAN
APPLICATION
ISSUES
< House of theSkeleton: viewof S-E sectorfrom the Atrium
The focus of DHER Project is on the study ofhouse and household
ViSMan-DHER Project
Dipartimento di Archeologia - Università di Bologna - www.unibo.it | VisIT Lab – Cineca - www.cineca.it
DHER Project
VISMAN
APPLICATION
ISSUES
< House of theSkeleton: S-Wsector from E
The focus of DHER Project is on the study ofhouse and household
ViSMan-DHER Project
Dipartimento di Archeologia - Università di Bologna - www.unibo.it | VisIT Lab – Cineca - www.cineca.it
DHER Project
VISMAN
APPLICATION
ISSUES
< House of theSkeleton: Northsector and theN y m p h a e u mfrom the street
The focus of DHER Project is on the study ofhouse and household
ViSMan-DHER Project
Dipartimento di Archeologia - Università di Bologna - www.unibo.it | VisIT Lab – Cineca - www.cineca.it
DHER Project
VISMAN
APPLICATION
ISSUES
< House of theSkeleton anddata collected
A new campaign of documentation wasstarted, dealing with the decoration ofpavements and walls
ViSMan-DHER Project
Dipartimento di Archeologia - Università di Bologna - www.unibo.it | VisIT Lab – Cineca - www.cineca.it
DHER Project
VISMAN
APPLICATION
ISSUES
< House of theSkeleton anddata collected:photomap ofthe Nymphaeum
The survey campaign enhanced knowledgeabout the topic and allowed publication ofcase-studies
ViSMan-DHER Project
Dipartimento di Archeologia - Università di Bologna - www.unibo.it | VisIT Lab – Cineca - www.cineca.it
DHER Project
VISMAN
APPLICATION
ISSUESThe survey resulted in a hugeamount of documentation!
Data were not only acquired onfield by archaeologists and otherCultural Heritage specialists...
ViSMan-DHER Project
Dipartimento di Archeologia - Università di Bologna - www.unibo.it | VisIT Lab – Cineca - www.cineca.it
DHER Project
VISMAN
APPLICATION
ISSUES ...but also retrieved in thearchives of the Soprintendenza ofPompeii and Herculaneum (oldphotographs, plans and othergraphical documentation)
ViSMan-DHER Project
Dipartimento di Archeologia - Università di Bologna - www.unibo.it | VisIT Lab – Cineca - www.cineca.it
DHER Project
VISMAN
APPLICATION
ISSUES Issue: data relative to differentcontexts, from the whole city orregion, up to a single wall surfaceor archaeological find
ViSMan-DHER Project
Dipartimento di Archeologia - Università di Bologna - www.unibo.it | VisIT Lab – Cineca - www.cineca.it
DHER Project
VISMAN
APPLICATION
ISSUES
Data collected include
" Decorations: Photomaps" Decorations: Analytic description" Excavation Journals" Findings: Analytic description" Findings: Photographs" Graphic documentation from the Archive of the Soprintendenza" Photographs (Foglia 1992) from the Archive of the S." Historic photographs from the Archive of the S." Restoration reports, 1996" Survey data: Masonry Stratigraphic Units (USM)" Survey Data: Photomaps
ViSMan-DHER Project
Dipartimento di Archeologia - Università di Bologna - www.unibo.it | VisIT Lab – Cineca - www.cineca.it
DHER Project
VISMAN
APPLICATION
ISSUES Data had eventually to be
organized and structured in order
not to be lost, dispersed or just
forgotten “in a drawer”...
ViSMan-DHER Project
Dipartimento di Archeologia - Università di Bologna - www.unibo.it | VisIT Lab – Cineca - www.cineca.it
DHER Project
VISMAN
APPLICATION
ISSUES
Goals/needs
" To manage the heterogeneous archives of collecteddata
" To make data available for visualization,consultation and comparison
" To present data in a didactic way
(while keeping complexity and relationship betweenexternal data, analyzed structures and archaeological
context)
ViSMan-DHER Project
Dipartimento di Archeologia - Università di Bologna - www.unibo.it | VisIT Lab – Cineca - www.cineca.it
DHER Project
VISMAN
APPLICATION
ISSUES
! ViSMan: a Tool for Virtual Archaeology
ViSMan-DHER Project
Dipartimento di Archeologia - Università di Bologna - www.unibo.it | VisIT Lab – Cineca - www.cineca.it
DHER Project
VISMAN
APPLICATION
ISSUES
http://www.cineca.it/
# Consortium of Italian Universities# Largest Italian Computing Centre# Equipped with a Virtual Theatre# Dedicated Laboratory for Scientific Visualization (VisIT: Visual Information Technologies Lab)
ViSMan-DHER Project
Dipartimento di Archeologia - Università di Bologna - www.unibo.it | VisIT Lab – Cineca - www.cineca.it
DHER Project
VISMAN
APPLICATION
ISSUES
< Virtual Modelsused as VirtualSet: the Houseof theCentenary
Previous projects on Cultural Heritage: virtualmodels can be used as “stage” for educationalTV programs...
ViSMan-DHER Project
Dipartimento di Archeologia - Università di Bologna - www.unibo.it | VisIT Lab – Cineca - www.cineca.it
DHER Project
VISMAN
APPLICATION
ISSUES
< Exhibition onthe Cathedral,Parma
...or philological (but not communicative) 3dmodels can be brought to life using them as astage with real actors (Virtual Set)
ViSMan-DHER Project
Dipartimento di Archeologia - Università di Bologna - www.unibo.it | VisIT Lab – Cineca - www.cineca.it
DHER Project
VISMAN
APPLICATION
ISSUES
ViSMan (Virtual Scenarios Manager)
Many digital data on cultural objects: howto connect them to 3D models??
ViSMan-DHER Project
Dipartimento di Archeologia - Università di Bologna - www.unibo.it | VisIT Lab – Cineca - www.cineca.it
ViSMan (Visual Scenarios Manager) is basically anadvanced viewer for 3D data, with someadditional features that facilitate the use ofvirtual reconstructions as tools for researchers:
DHER Project
VISMAN
APPLICATION
ISSUES
< Vismaninterface andthe navigationof a virtualmodel
ViSMan-DHER Project
Dipartimento di Archeologia - Università di Bologna - www.unibo.it | VisIT Lab – Cineca - www.cineca.it
DHER Project
VISMAN
APPLICATION
ISSUES
< Current andoriginal aspectof the House ofthe Centenary,Pompeii
Dipartimento di Archeologia - Università di Bologna - www.unibo.it | VisIT Lab – Cineca - www.cineca.it
DHER Project
VISMAN
APPLICATION
ISSUES
2) Data linking:
Designed for scientific 3D contents, ViSMan allows linkingfrom the 3D models to external multimedia (images,texts, documents, web pages...) through db structure;
< DigitalElevation Modelof the ZaragozaRegion, and thea v a i l a b l edocumentationfor historicalevidence
ViSMan-DHER Project
Dipartimento di Archeologia - Università di Bologna - www.unibo.it | VisIT Lab – Cineca - www.cineca.it
DHER Project
VISMAN
APPLICATION
ISSUES
< DigitalElevation Modelof CampanianRegion
Models can be grouped into environments or Scenarios(Landscape, Archaeological area, Building...)
ViSMan-DHER Project
Dipartimento di Archeologia - Università di Bologna - www.unibo.it | VisIT Lab – Cineca - www.cineca.it
DHER Project
VISMAN
APPLICATION
ISSUES
< DigitalElevation Modelof CampanianRegion
Inside a Scenario, models or parts of them can beturned into “Nodes”, to be associated with externaldata through a click;
ViSMan-DHER Project
Dipartimento di Archeologia - Università di Bologna - www.unibo.it | VisIT Lab – Cineca - www.cineca.it
DHER Project
VISMAN
APPLICATION
ISSUES
<Archaeologicalevidences in theProvince ofZaragoza
External contents are opened in a new overlappingwindow
ViSMan-DHER Project
Dipartimento di Archeologia - Università di Bologna - www.unibo.it | VisIT Lab – Cineca - www.cineca.it
DHER Project
VISMAN
APPLICATION
ISSUES
Objects, buildings,
terrain modeling
Database ViSMan
application
Assign
contents to
Nodes
Connect
ScenariosData
storage
ViSMan-DHER Project
Dipartimento di Archeologia - Università di Bologna - www.unibo.it | VisIT Lab – Cineca - www.cineca.it
DHER Project
VISMAN
APPLICATION
ISSUES
! An Application: Integrated Fruition of Data
ViSMan-DHER Project
Dipartimento di Archeologia - Università di Bologna - www.unibo.it | VisIT Lab – Cineca - www.cineca.it