Ariadne Training Workshop Ljubljana, Slovenia 21 January 2016 Presentation by: Holly Wright, Archaeology Data Service (ADS) and Kater Fernie, 2 Culture Associates

1. ARIADNE is funded by the European Commission's Seventh Framework Programme
ARIADNE services
Holly Wright, ADS
Kate Fernie, 2Culture Associates

2. Overview
• Portal
• Visual Media Services
• Landscape Services
• Call for applications

3. Portal demo

4. Visual media data
Visual Media Data: any type of visual
representation of Archaeological sites or
objects:
• Standard 2D images (high-resolution)
• Advanced 2D images (PTM, RTI,
panoramic images, HDR)
• 3D models (single or complex scenes)
• Videos
• GIS data

5. Services offered by ARIADNE
• Production of visual data: MeshLab (CNR-ISTI)
• Publication of 3D data on the web: 3D-HOP (CNR-ISTI)
• ARIADNE Visual Media Service (CNR-ISTI)
• Geographical data (Production & Visualisation): Landscape
Services (CNR-ITABC)

6. MeshLab
• OpenSource tool (GPL) supporting
mesh processing and visualisation of
triangle meshes
• Started as an academic project
• Evolved to a complete and
sophisticated system
• Downloaded by >350,000 users by
2013, worldwide
• Leading open platform for mesh
editing of sampled 3D data
http://meshlab.sourceforge.net/
CNR-ISTI

7. MeshLab: training and support
• ARIADNE partners have good experience of the production of visual
media (2D and 3)
• CNR-ISTI supports this activity (TNA, summer schools and training)
– http://www.ariadne-infrastructure.eu/Services/Transnational-Access/2016-
TNA-Call/TNA-school-3D-Pisa
• Video tutorials are available for MeshLab:
– A series of short videos, each dedicated to a specific functionality
– Delivered via YouTube for
free:http://www.youtube.com/user/MrPMeshLabTutorials?feature=mhee

8. 3DHOP: Visual data on the web
• 3D visualization on web pages is now possible with
WebGL & SpiderGL
• CNR’s “3DHOP” (3D Heritage Online Presenter) can
be used to simplify the production of web-based
presentations or installations:
http://vcg.isti.cnr.it/3dhop/

9. Visual media service
http://visual.ariadne-infrastructure.eu/

10. Visual media service
Conversion of data assets to a web-compliant
format, thus supporting easy publication and
visualization on the web
• 3D models
• Reflection Transformation Images (RTI)
• High Resolution 2D images
• High Dynamic Range (HDR) images

11. Visual media service: user perspective
• For each visual media asset:
– The user fills a simple form and uploads the data
file
– An automatic service on the ARIADNE server will
open, convert, transform in a browsable page
and output the URL (or a .zip file) to the user
– The user links the media asset in his archive
using the provided URL

12. Demo
http://visual.ariadne-infrastructure.eu/

13. Details page for each media type
• Describes the media type and the services that are
offered: conversion, streaming, visualisation on the
web, etc.

14. Browse
http://visual.ariadne-infrastructure.eu/browse
• Users can search and browse the content that has
already been uploaded

15. Uploading your media
• For each media asset the
user fills in a simple form:
– Email, name institution
– Label, title, description,
tabs, url for a page
describing the asset
– Copyright owner
– Collection (optional)
– You can ask to keep the
object private
• Select file to upload
• Accept terms and
conditions
• And upload!

16. Viewing results – 3D
http://visual.ariadne-infrastructure.eu/3d/arringatore
80.23 MB
3D model of the
Arringatore
produced by 3D
laser scanning
National
Archaeological
Museum and
CNR-ISTI

17. Viewing results – RTI
http://visual.ariadne-infrastructure.eu/rti/mediallion_hadrian_reverse
199.4 mb
Reverse, Medallion,
Rome, Hadrian
Palazzo Blu, ISTI-CNR,
Simoneschi collection

18. Viewing results – HRI
12.29 mb
Capsella Samagher, a
reliquary in carved ivory
National Archaeological
Museum in Venice and
CNR-ISTI
http://visual.ariadne-infrastructure.eu/img/capsella_samagher_photo

19. Visual media service: Help
http://visual.ariadne-infrastructure.eu/help

20. ARIADNE landscape services
http://landscape.ariadne-infrastructure.eu/

21. Landscape services
• These online services focus on the generation
and management of 2D / 3D interactive WebGIS
environments in a collaborative way, through
open-source frameworks.
• Web services include:
– Cloud services
– 3D Terrain Services
– Tools for visualization, interaction and editing
– Distributed composing services
– 2D services

22. Cloud service
• You can register as a single user, a research
group or a whole institution
• Users can upload, manage and modify data
involved in processing tasks (both input and
output).
• The ARIADNE Service use ownCloud, which
has been customized
• Services are optimized for desktop and
mobile with full support for mobile and
desktop clients.
http://landscape.ariadne-infrastructure.eu/oc/

23. 3D Terrain Service: registering
• To start a 3D Terrain project you first need to
register and log in to the Cloud service

24. 3D Terrain Service: upload
• Data (DTMs/DEMs, Geo-images, ESRI shape files)
for your 3D terrain project is uploaded to the
Cloud service

25. 3D Terrain Service: output
• Next you specify the output to control how your
3D terrain model will be generated or published

26. 3D Terrain Service: processing
• The services will list your available input data
• Responsive web interfaces for user tasks
– customization of different parameters (database
resolution, extents, imagery attributes, etc.).
• Web servers then process the data and alert you
once 3D terrain data processing has completed

27. Landscape services: Terrain Gallery
• Browse sample datasets
• View your own datasets (when logged in)
http://landscape.ariadne-infrastructure.eu/gallery.php

28. View and download options
You can also fully delete a 3D terrain and its related data (it will NOT
delete the cloud input data) – but don’t delete the sample datasets!.

29. Embed options
You can embed a
3D scene in your
web-page
And share the
current point of
view.

30. Call for applications
• Summer schools:
– Digital curation of archaeological knowledge,
Athens, 12-17 June
– 3D documentation, Pisa, 20-24 June
– Archaeological datasets, Pisa, 4-8 July
• Individual training
– Mapping existing data to CIDOC CRM, Prato
– Design of scientific datasets, Prato
• Bursaries available!
http://www.ariadne-infrastructure.eu/Services/Transnational-
Access/2016-TNA-Call

31. Talking points
Ariadne was the daughter of Minos, King of Crete.
She gave a all of thread to Theseus so that he could find his way
out of the Minotaur's labyrinth.
Our ARIADNE is a research infrastructure.
We give a portal so researchers can find archaeological datasets
and tools to visualise and publish their results.

32. Acknowledgements
• ARIADNE portal developed by
• Visual Media Services developed by Roberto Scopigno et al, Visual Computing
Lab - ISTI - CNR
• Landscape Services developed by Bruno Fanini, Sofia Pescarin and Augusto
Palombini, VHLab - CNR ITABC
ARIADNE is a project funded by the European Commission under the Community’s
Seventh Framework Programme, contract no. FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2012-1-
313193.