Towards a Common Implementation Framework for Online Virtual Museums

Wilkosinska, Katarzyna; Aderhold, Andreas; Gräf, Holger; Jung, Yvonne

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-39241-2_36

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“…Specific "application templates" might support web developers and users alike to embed converted assets in on-line virtual museums being deployable on different devices. The creation of online services for model conversion, optimization and automatic generation of basic web 3d pages as resented within the Common Implementation Framework [12] has been built up as early prototype, to which this work contributed by providing best practices.…”

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Behind Livia’s Villa: A Case Study for the Devolution of Large Scale Interactive "in-site" to "on-line" Application

Baldassari

Demetrescu

Pescarin

et al. 2013

Design, User Experience, and Usability. Web, Mobile, and Product Design

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This work presents a methodology for designing online web presentations reusing a large scale, interactive and immersive VR installation by mapping assets as well as interactions to a low capability environment. With the emergence of WebGL plugin-free interactive 3D graphics inside limited information processing environments, e.g. browser technologies, becomes reality. However, macro VR worlds typically use large or even out-of-core data sets in order to produce and communicate scientifically relevant content. The major challenge still remains on how we can redesign and optimize applications that have been planned for macro VR worlds and map those to adequate concepts of micro scale worlds. We showcase this in the area of virtual archaeology for the online virtual museum of "Villa Di Livia", part of the bigger project "Flaminia Reloaded", in which several limitations could become crucial. The elaborated workflow could easily be adopted by other VMs and assist in future migrations.

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Behind Livia’s Villa: A Case Study for the Devolution of Large Scale Interactive "in-site" to "on-line" Application

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Demetrescu

Pescarin

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Design, User Experience, and Usability. Web, Mobile, and Product Design

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“…This process is very flexible and blueprint web applications can be authored independently and plugged into the system. While the original publication [1] is focused on a general introduction and overview of the CIF pipeline, including a prototypical implementation, performance aspects as well as an elaborate template system, used to create entire web applications, where mentioned but not yet explored here.…”

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“…By scaling horizontally, portions of the pipeline are distributed to different physical or virtual machines which run entire (1). The CIF application server determines the action to take based upon the URL (2).…”

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“…A whole set of new tools need to be devised that use 3D models to assist CH research, to plan and document restoration, and so on. Therefore, recently an open platform was proposed which combines web-based tools and services to support the development of Virtual Museums with particular attention to presentation and visualization of Cultural Heritage assets in online virtual museums [1]. This "Common Implementation Framework" (CIF) is designed to provide a useful platform with a harmonized collection of tools based on integrated web technologies to support and help stakeholders and application developers in the development and presentation of their digital heritage projects.…”

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Distributed 3D model optimization for the web with the common implementation framework for online virtual museums

Aderhold

Jung

Wilkosinska

et al. 2013

2013 Digital Heritage International Congress (DigitalHeritage)

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Internet services are becoming more ubiquitous and 3D graphics is increasingly gaining a strong foothold in the Web technology domain. Recently, with WebGL, real-time 3D graphics in the Browser became a reality and most major Browsers support WebGL natively today. This makes it possible to create applications like 3D catalogs of artifacts, or to interactively explore Cultural Heritage objects in a Virtual Museum on mobile devices. Frameworks like the open-source system X3DOM provide declarative access to low-level GPU routines along with seamless integration of 3D graphics into HTML5 applications through standardized Web technologies. Most 3D models also need to be optimized to address concerns like limited network bandwidth or reduced GPU power on mobile devices. Therefore, recently an online platform for the development of Virtual Museums with particular attention to presentation and visualization of Cultural Heritage assets in online virtual museums was proposed. This common implementation Framework (CIF) allows the user to upload large 3D models, which are subsequently converted and optimized for web display and embedded in an HTML5 application that can range from simple interactive display of the model to an entire virtual environment like a virtual walk-through. Generating these various types of applications is done via a templating mechanism, which will be further elaborated within this paper. Moreover, to efficiently convert many large models into an optimized form, a substantial amount of computing power is required, which a single system cannot yet provide in a timely fashion. Therefore, we also describe how the CIF can be used to utilize a dynamically allocated cloud-based or physical cluster of commodity hardware to distribute the workload of model optimization for the Web

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The Common Implementation Framework as Service – Towards Novel Applications for Streamlined Presentation of 3D Content on the Web

Aderhold

Wilkosinska

Corsini

et al. 2014

Design, User Experience, and Usability. User Experience Design for Diverse Interaction Platforms and Environments

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Towards a Common Implementation Framework for Online Virtual Museums

Cited by 4 publications

References 2 publications

Behind Livia’s Villa: A Case Study for the Devolution of Large Scale Interactive "in-site" to "on-line" Application

Behind Livia’s Villa: A Case Study for the Devolution of Large Scale Interactive "in-site" to "on-line" Application

Distributed 3D model optimization for the web with the common implementation framework for online virtual museums

The Common Implementation Framework as Service – Towards Novel Applications for Streamlined Presentation of 3D Content on the Web

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