visman-dher project, università di bologna

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

________________________________________

ViSMan-DHER Project


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


DHER Project

VISMAN

APPLICATION

ISSUES

! The DHER Project at Herculaneum

ViSMan-DHER Project


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


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


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


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


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


DHER Project

VISMAN

APPLICATION

ISSUES

< House of theSkeleton: viewof the Atriumfrom N-W


ViSMan-DHER Project


DHER Project

VISMAN

APPLICATION

ISSUES

< House of theSkeleton: viewof S-E sectorfrom the Atrium


ViSMan-DHER Project


DHER Project

VISMAN

APPLICATION

ISSUES

< House of theSkeleton: S-Wsector from E


ViSMan-DHER Project


DHER Project

VISMAN

APPLICATION

ISSUES

< House of theSkeleton: Northsector and theN y m p h a e u mfrom the street


ViSMan-DHER Project


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


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


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


DHER Project

VISMAN

APPLICATION

ISSUES ...but also retrieved in thearchives of the Soprintendenza ofPompeii and Herculaneum (oldphotographs, plans and othergraphical documentation)

ViSMan-DHER Project


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


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


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


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


DHER Project

VISMAN

APPLICATION

ISSUES

! ViSMan: a Tool for Virtual Archaeology

ViSMan-DHER Project


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


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


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


DHER Project

VISMAN

APPLICATION

ISSUES

ViSMan (Virtual Scenarios Manager)

Many digital data on cultural objects: howto connect them to 3D models??

ViSMan-DHER Project


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


DHER Project

VISMAN

APPLICATION

ISSUES

< Current andoriginal aspectof the House ofthe Centenary,Pompeii

1) Switch between models

Historical stagesAlternative reconstructionsConnected rooms / buildings ...

ViSMan-DHER Project


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


DHER Project

VISMAN

APPLICATION

ISSUES

< DigitalElevation Modelof CampanianRegion

Models can be grouped into environments or Scenarios(Landscape, Archaeological area, Building...)

ViSMan-DHER Project


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


DHER Project

VISMAN

APPLICATION

ISSUES

<Archaeologicalevidences in theProvince ofZaragoza

External contents are opened in a new overlappingwindow

ViSMan-DHER Project


DHER Project

VISMAN

APPLICATION

ISSUES

Objects, buildings,

terrain modeling

Database ViSMan

application

Assign

contents to

Nodes

Connect

ScenariosData

storage

ViSMan-DHER Project


DHER Project

VISMAN

APPLICATION

ISSUES

! An Application: Integrated Fruition of Data

ViSMan-DHER Project


DHER Project

VISMAN

APPLICATION

ISSUES

Structure of the ViSMan-DHER application

_________________________________1 Campanian Landscape

TerritoryHerculaneum

_________________________________2 Archaeological site of Herculaneum

Insula IIIHouse of the SkeletonHouse of the Bronze Herm

Archaeological site of PompeiiHouse of the Centenary

_________________________________3 House of the Skeleton

Wall Surfaces House of the Bronze Herm

Rooms__________________________________

SCENARIO = wholereconstructed virtualenvironment

NODE = virtualelement linked toexternal data

ViSMan-DHER Project


DHER Project

VISMAN

APPLICATION

ISSUES

The archaeological database

• A table for each datatype

• Relational databaseproject

• A record for eachdocument (=picture,text, video..)

• Field “node”matches a 3D object

• Each object (node)can link many dataand data types

ViSMan-DHER Project


DHER Project

VISMAN

APPLICATION

ISSUES Scenario 1Landscape with labelsindicating next Scenarios

Appilcation Screenshots

ViSMan-DHER Project


DHER Project

VISMAN

APPLICATION

ISSUES

Scenario 2Archaeological site of Herculaneum, with labelsindicating next Scenarios and simplified modelsfor Insulae and Houses that are linked to data


ViSMan-DHER Project


DHER Project

VISMAN

APPLICATION

ISSUES


Scenario 3Detailed model of the House of the SkeletonNodes here are the single wall surfaces

ViSMan-DHER Project


DHER Project

VISMAN

APPLICATION

ISSUES


NodeHouse of the Skeleton and linked data

ViSMan-DHER Project


DHER Project

VISMAN

APPLICATION

ISSUES


Node

Herculaneum, a

House and linked

data: Excavation

Journey

ViSMan-DHER Project


DHER Project

VISMAN

APPLICATION

ISSUES


Free navigationthroughout models and

the data

ViSMan-DHER Project


DHER Project

VISMAN

APPLICATION

ISSUES

! Issues and Achievements: an evaluation

ViSMan-DHER Project


DHER Project

VISMAN

APPLICATION

ISSUES

Achievements

" DIDACTIC AND COMMUNICATION EFFECTIVENESS(with more data...)

" HIERARCHICAL ORGANIZATION / SUBDIVISION andinterpretation (scenarios, nodes)

" SUSTAINABILITY as a tool for managing data insidethe Department (see e.g. House of the Bronze Herm)

ViSMan-DHER Project


DHER Project

VISMAN

APPLICATION

ISSUES House of the Bronze HermSchematic model of the House: nodes here are thenumbered rooms

ViSMan-DHER Project


DHER Project

VISMAN

APPLICATION

ISSUES

NodeHouse of the BronzeHerm and linked data

ViSMan-DHER Project


DHER Project

VISMAN

APPLICATION

ISSUES

Issues

" USABILITY (both on the end-user end and in theauthoring part)

" WEB-PORTABILITY the data and database can beonline, but the core part (3D visualization) remainsoffline

ViSMan-DHER Project


Authors - Developers

Dipartimento di Archeologia, Università di BolognaDaniela Scagliarini Corláita, Antonella Coralini,

Riccardo Helg, Chiara Pascucci,

VisIT Lab, CinecaAntonella Guidazzoli, Elena Toffalori, Claudio Alvisi,

Francesca Delli Ponti, Tiziano Diamanti, Andrea Negri

Universidad de ZaragozaPilar Diarte Blasco

ViSMan-DHER Project


More about...

More About DHER Project at:http://www.vesuviana.info/

[email protected]@unibo.it

More About ViSMan at:http://3d.cineca.it/

[email protected]@cineca.it

ViSMan-DHER Project


_______________________________________

Thank You!

Dipartimento di Archeologia, Università di BolognaDaniela Scagliarini, Antonella Coralini

VisIT Lab, CinecaAntonella Guidazzoli, Elena Toffalori

_______________________________________

visman-dher project, università di bologna

Documents