3D has become a new and powerful form of scholarly expression and
communication. The mission of the Virtual World Heritage Laboratory is
to apply these new tools not only as interactive illustrations but also
as heuristic instruments of discovery. The scope of our interests – as
implied by the phrase “World Heritage” – includes the entire human
record. The focus of our investigations, as is suggested by the phrase
“Virtual World” – is the 3D scientific simulation and how it can make
possible experiences and experiments that – short of time travel – would
otherwise not be possible.
Current Projects
The uffizi Digitization Project
The
Virtual World Heritage Laboratory (VWHL), based in in the Indiana
University School of Informatics and Computing, in collaboration with
partners at the Politecnico di Milano and the University of Florence
will undertake the 3D digitization of the complete collection of Greek
and Roman sculpture in the Uffizi, Pitti Palace, and Boboli Gardens on
behalf of the Gallerie degli Uffizi. Totaling some 1,250 works of art,
it is the third largest collection of its kind in an Italian state
museum.
From
2007 to 2012 The Virtual World Heritage Laboratory created a 3D digital
model of Hadrian’s Villa, a World Heritage site located in Tivoli
(Italy), as it appeared toward the end of the lifetime of the emperor
Hadrian (AD 76-138).
The
Digital Sculpture Project 3D digital modeling often encounters a
barrier when confronted with the kind of complex geometry that
characterizes most sculpture. Through its Digital Sculpture Project, the
Virtual World Heritage Laboratory is pioneering new solutions and
applications
The
Atzompa Project is a collaboration between INAH and the Virtual World
Heritage Laboratory (VWHL). The primary focus of the project is the
creation of 3d models at various scales of significant cultural heritage
artifacts, monuments, and the entire site. INAH plans to use these
models as aids to the scientific analysis of the site and as assets for
public outreach and education.
IDIA
Lab virtual celestial simulator and 3D interpretation of the Meridian
of August in ancient Rome. Project commissioned by the Virtual World
Heritage Laboratory at Indiana University, directed by Bernard Frischer.
The AWOL Index: The bibliographic data presented herein has been programmatically extracted from the content of AWOL - The Ancient World Online (ISSN 2156-2253) and formatted in accordance with a structured data model.
AWOL is a project of Charles E. Jones, Tombros Librarian for Classics and Humanities at the Pattee Library, Penn State University
AWOL began with a series of entries under the heading AWOL on the Ancient World Bloggers Group Blog. I moved it to its own space here beginning in 2009.
The primary focus of the project is notice and comment on open access material relating to the ancient world, but I will also include other kinds of networked information as it comes available.
The ancient world is conceived here as it is at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University, my academic home at the time AWOL was launched. That is, from the Pillars of Hercules to the Pacific, from the beginnings of human habitation to the late antique / early Islamic period.
AWOL is the successor to Abzu, a guide to networked open access data relevant to the study and public presentation of the Ancient Near East and the Ancient Mediterranean world, founded at the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago in 1994. Together they represent the longest sustained effort to map the development of open digital scholarship in any discipline.
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