Towards new digital cultural spaces

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• Towards new digital cultural spaces
• by Jean-Pierre Dalbéra
• National Museum of European and Mediterranean
  Civilisations
• Head of research and technology department of the
  french Ministry of Culture
• since 1990 to 2003.

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Cultural Heritage and technologies a cohesive
approachhttp//www.culture.gouv.fr/

• Scientific research
• Technical Innovation (new tools)
• Digitisation (catalogues and documents)
• Dissemination and publishing
• International cooperation
• to foster economic development, education,
  tourism, art creation, social relations

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Knowledge

• Research programmes for archaeology, art history,
  ethnology, architecture,..
• Inventories, catalogues, books,..
• Methodologies, descriptive systems, thesaurus
  (monuments, objects, archives, intangible
  heritage, museums,)
• 67 cultural databases (free access)
• http//www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/bdd

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Musée Guimet national museum of asiatic arts
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Musée Guimet (Paris)
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Joconde (french museums database)
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Examples of sculptures of musée Guimet
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Examples of rolls of musée Guimet
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 Mémoire  historical photographs database
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Historical photographs of China (database)
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Virtual reality and cultural heritage 15 years
of innovation

• A powerful instrument of knowledge
• A tool for education
• Allowing public access to monuments that are
  closed for the visit
• Reconstructing objects and environments
• Allowing a new vision without constraints in
  space and time

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The traditional method of reconstruction by
drawing and water-colour

• OUDHNA (TUNISIA)
• The antique roman city of Oudhna reconstructed
  by J.C. Golvin (CNRS)
• The Acropolis today

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The pioneers of virtual reality Paris in 1789
Pixel INA Award 1990
The reconstruction of Paris in 1789 for French
Revolution Bicentenary by a french society
 Ex-Machina  (1989) http//www.mediaport.net/en
/CP/CyberScience/BDD/fich_037.en.html
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Illumination techniques
1990 one of the first simulation
projects. Virtual illumination of the
 Bonsecours  church by the MAP/CRAI laboratory
(Nancy, France) http//www.crai.archi.fr/
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The virtual museum of Louvre by night
1992 The virtual illumination of Louvre A
partnership between the MAP/CRAI laboratory and
the LORIA (INRIA), (Nancy, France), with the
sponsoring of  Electricité de France 
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The first virtual reconstruction of Cluny Abbey
A reconstruction realizead in 1992 by  le Centre
d'Enseignement et de Recherche ENSAM  of the
city of Cluny with a sponsoring of IBM (by the
archaeologist K. J. Conant) http//www.cluny.ensam
.fr/
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Inside reconstruction of Cluny Abbey
First virtual model realized in 1992 has been
improved since this date by ENSAM of Cluny
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Televirtual visit of Cluny Abbey
Imagina 1993, Monte-Carlo, France The first
experiment of televirtuality a virtual visit of
the  père Di Falco  in Monte Carlo guided by
the curator of the historical monument in
Paris http//imagina.ina.fr/Imagina/2000/Actu/feed
back.fr.html
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Virtual Illumination of bridges of Paris
1993 The virtual illumination of the  Pont
Neuf  (Paris) by the MAP/CRAI laboratory
(Nancy, France), with the sponsoring of
 Electricité de France 
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The sanctuary of Athena 3D-model (Delphes)
1997 the 3D reconstruction of the sanctuary of
Athena (Delphes, Greece) A partnership between
MAP/CRAI laboratory (Nancy, France),  la maison
de larchéologie  (Bordeaux, France),  Ecole
française dAthènes  with the sponsoring of
 Electricité de France 
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Virtual reality and haptic feedback on a famous
greek sculpture of  musée du Louvre 
An experiment of the research and technology
department of the ministry of culture and a
french society SeamTeam (2000) On the left
Catherine Tasca, the french minister of culture
can see and touch the virtual sculpture
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Realtime augmented reality Cathedral of Amiens
(France)
3D-model of sculptures and virtual application of
mediaeval colours We can see on the photography
on the left the effects obtained by projection
of light on the front of the Cathedral of
Amiens SeamTeam and other Partners (2000)
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The MAP laboratory Models and simulations for
architecture, town planning and landscapes
1998 a new laboratory is created (a
partnership between the National Center of
Scientific Research and the Ministry of culture)
(Marseille, Nancy, Lyon, Toulouse,
Strasbourg) http//www.map.archi.fr/
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The national programme 3D Monuments

• A national programme
• to coordinate 3D models production on historical
  monuments
• to promote data normalisation,
• to develop method of photomodelling and 3D laser
  scanning
• to produce 3D models for restauration of
  historical buildings, but also for e-education,
  e-culture, e-tourism

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Acquisition methods Laser scanning, digital
photographs
3D-Monuments a french national programme for
modelising monuments and buildings
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3D-Monuments Extraction of relevant profiles
and architectural knowledge-based modeling
Elements of architecture
Knowledges of 3D-model
Grammar of architecture
Glossary, grammar and knowledges organized par
Livio de Luca (MAP) 2002 to elaborate a 3D-model
of the roman temple of Dougga (Tunisia)
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3D-Monuments database for the scene wall of
roman theater of Arles
Livio de Luca, Michel Florenzano (MAP) 2003
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3D-Monuments Image matching and 3D model for a
temple of Dougga (Tunisia)
The temple of Dougga (Moustapha KHANOUSSI, Michel
FLORENZANO, Jean-Claude GOLVIN, Véronique REDDÉ,
Livio DE LUCA)
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3D-Monuments Augmented reality for the roman
theater of Arles
The roman theater of Arles has been built at the
end of the 1st century B.J.C..
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• 3D-Monuments Augmented reality
• for the roman theater of Arles

Reconstruction by Michel Florenzano and Livio De
Luca (MAP) 2003
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3D-Monuments some 3D models available on the
website
http//www.map.archi.fr/3D-monuments
Le casino dAix-en-Provence
La saline dArc et Senans
Le Palais royal (Paris)
Lhôtel de Sully (Paris)
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3D immersive virtual spaces for cultural
institutions ?
Immersive room in ENSAM (Cluny)
Immersive parabol (2002)
We inaugurated, in october 2004, at Bavay in the
north of France, the first immersive space in an
archaeological museum.
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Great archaeological sites a collection for
the Web

• 16 multimedia publications to valorize
  archaeological research (1996-2004),
• On free access
• Collaborations between researchers,
  web-designers, technicians, educators,..
• 6 international awards for the collection,
• 100.000 visites by month (2003).

Produced by research and technology department of
the french ministry of culture With the National
Center of Scientific Research (CNRS)
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Great archaeological websites
3D model of neolithic houses
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Great archaeological websites
3D model of the Akhetheteps mastaba
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Great archaeological websites
Mobius Heritage 2003 international Award
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European projects on virtual reality and cultural
heritage

• Research on multimedia guided tours or
  exhibitions
• ARCHEOGUIDE (augmented reality-based cultural
  heritage on-site guide) Olympie, Greece
• PAST PAD, Bibracte (France),
• LIFE PLUS Pompeï (Italy),..
• EPOCH european network of excellence
• STRABON, euromediterranean plateform for
  cultural heritage and sustainable tourism
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• Le  cyber-carnet Visite Cité des sciences
  et de lindustrie, (Canada exhibition)

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• Jean-Pierre DALBERA
• Mission pour le musée national des civilisations
  de
• lEurope et de la Méditerranée
• Musée national des arts et traditions populaires
• 6 avenue du Mahatma Ghandi
• 75116 Paris France
• Téléphone 33 1 44 17 60 21
• Fax [phone]
• E-mail jean-pierre.dalbera_at_culture.gouv.fr
• Personal website http//www.dalbera.nom.fr/
• URL of the conference http//site.voila.fr/dalbe
  ra2/3D/chine.ppt