Project description Digital libraries and technology-enhanced learningNew tools for the digitisation of cultural heritage artefacts will result in richer and more realistic representations, better documentation and higher cost effectiveness of digitisationThe project addresses all aspects of 3D-capture, 3D-processing, the semantics of shape, material properties, metadata and provenance, integration with other sources (textual and other media); search, research and dissemination to the public and professional alike. A strong technical research program is complemented by research into practical business aspects: business models for exploitation of 3D assets, workflow planning and execution for mass digitisation, socio-economic impact assessment; and above all the creation of a Virtual Centre of Competence in 3D digitisation.The establishment of the Virtual Competence Centre aims at bringing together the expertise and the technological resources necessary to support:mass digitisation of tangible cultural heritage objects, through benchmarking and validating technologies, defining workflows and procedural standards as well as plans for quality recognition of 3D digital artefacts and collections;professional development through designing and developing education and training programs that provide cultural institutions with a deeper understanding of the potential of 3D technologies in cultural heritage.The 3D-COFORM consortium brings together 19 partners with sound expertise in 3D-digisation complemented by a representative group of Cultural Heritage organisations, with the Victoria and Albert Museum as a full partner and collaborations from the Louvre, the Florentine Museums authority, the Museum of the Imperial Forums in Rome, World Heritage Sites in Cyprus and the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. The consortium also contains organisations tasked at a national level with helping museums move in these directions: CNRS-LC2RMF, the research arm of the French National Museums and CultNat the digitization body for cultural and natural heritage funded by the Egyptian Government.The combination in 3D-COFORM of research and take-up activities will contribute to reinforce 3D-digitisation capability through advancing the state of the art in 3D-digitsation. The project will also contribute to reinforce the competence building in this domain by supporting continuous professional development through a Master program in 3D cultural technologies for cultural heritage.3D-COFORM achievements and the results of the collaboration with the European Digital Library, "Europeana" will provide an important contribution to the European initiative on digital libraries. Show the project objective Hide the project objective The 3D-COFORM project will advance the state-of-the-art in 3D-digitsation and make 3D-documentation an everyday practical choice for digital documentation campaigns in the cultural heritage sector. The project addresses all aspects of 3D-capture, 3D-processing, the semantics of shape, material properties, metadata and provenance, integration with other sources (textual and other media); search, research and dissemination to the public and professional alike. A strong technical research program is complemented by research into practical business aspects: business models for exploitation of 3D assets, workflow planning and execution for mass digitisation, socio-economic impact assessment; and above all the creation of a Virtual Centre of Competence in 3D digitization. The VCC-3D will act as a catalyst in enhancing the sector's capacity for mass digitization of 3D assets – the tangible artefacts of the physical cultural heritage of the world. The 3D-COFORM consortium brings together 19 partners, mainly former core partners in the EPOCH NoE, to form a world class team on 3D-digisation complemented by an equally prestigious group of Cultural Heritage organizations, with the Victoria and Albert Museum as a full partner and signed-up collaborations from the Louvre, the Florentine Museums authority, the Museum of the Imperial Forums in Rome, World Heritage Sites in Cyprus and the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. The consortium also contains organizations tasked at a national level with helping museums move in these directions: CNRS-LC2RMF, the research arm of the French National Museums and CultNat the digitization body for cultural and natural heritage funded by the Egyptian Government. The combination in 3D-COFORM of research and take-up activities (VCC-3D) will contribute decisively to reinforce 3D-digitisation capability and to the realisation of the objectives of the European initiative on digital libraries and its flagship project Europeana (European Digital Library). Fields of science social scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managementbusiness modelsnatural scienceschemical sciencescatalysis Programme(s) FP7-ICT - Specific Programme "Cooperation": Information and communication technologies Topic(s) ICT-2007.4.3 - Digital libraries and technology-enhanced learning (ICT-2007.4.3) Call for proposal FP7-ICT-2007-3 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme CP - Collaborative project (generic) Coordinator UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON Address Lewes road mithras house BN2 4AT Brighton United Kingdom See on map Region South East (England) Surrey, East and West Sussex Brighton and Hove Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact David Arnold (Prof.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window EU contribution No data Participants (19) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET GRAZ Austria EU contribution € 441 000,00 Address Rechbauerstrasse 12 8010 Graz See on map Region Südösterreich Steiermark Graz Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Sven Havemann (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN Belgium EU contribution € 755 000,00 Address Oude markt 13 3000 Leuven See on map Region Vlaams Gewest Prov. 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Leuven Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Maria Vereeken (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data EIDGENOESSISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE ZUERICH Switzerland EU contribution € 679 000,00 Address Raemistrasse 101 8092 Zuerich See on map Region Schweiz/Suisse/Svizzera Zürich Zürich Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Luc Van Gool (Prof.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data THE CYPRUS RESEARCH AND EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION Cyprus EU contribution € 456 000,00 Address Konstantinou kavafi 20 2121 Lefkosia See on map Region Κύπρος Κύπρος Κύπρος Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Franco Niccolucci (Prof.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data RHEINISCHE FRIEDRICH-WILHELMS-UNIVERSITAT BONN Germany EU contribution € 530 000,00 Address Regina pacis weg 3 53113 Bonn See on map Region Nordrhein-Westfalen Köln Bonn, Kreisfreie Stadt Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Reinhard Klein (Prof.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data SPHERONVR AG Germany EU contribution € 201 000,00 Address Hauptstrasse 186 67714 Waldfischbach-burgalben See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Gerhard Bonnet (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Other funding No data BREUCKMANN GMBH Germany EU contribution € 200 000,00 Address Torenstrasse 14 88709 Meersburg See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Bernd Breuckmann (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Other funding No data FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG EV Germany EU contribution € 841 000,00 Address Hansastrasse 27c 80686 Munchen See on map Region Bayern Oberbayern München, Kreisfreie Stadt Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Christoph Schulte (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data CENTER FOR DOCUMENTATION OF CULTURAL AND NATURAL HERITAGE CULTNAT Egypt EU contribution € 69 999,00 Address Cairo alexandria road km 28 - Giza See on map Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Fathi Saleh (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS France EU contribution € 373 824,00 Address Rue michel ange 3 75794 Paris See on map Region Ile-de-France Ile-de-France Paris Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Franck Charron (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data IDRYMA TECHNOLOGIAS KAI EREVNAS Greece EU contribution € 421 000,00 Address N plastira str 100 70013 Irakleio See on map Region Νησιά Αιγαίου Κρήτη Ηράκλειο Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact ZINOVIA PAPATHEODOROU (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data PIN SOC.CONS. A R.L. - SERVIZI DIDATTICI E SCIENTIFICI PER L UNIVERSITA DI FIRENZE Italy EU contribution € 470 000,00 Address Piazza ciardi 25 59100 Prato See on map Region Centro (IT) Toscana Prato Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Cristina Pugi (Ms) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI FIRENZE Italy EU contribution € 173 000,00 Address Piazza san marco 4 50121 Florence See on map Region Centro (IT) Toscana Firenze Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Vito Cappellini (Prof.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE Italy EU contribution € 624 000,00 Address Piazzale aldo moro 7 00185 Roma See on map Region Centro (IT) Lazio Roma Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Roberto Scopigno (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data CMC Associates Ltd. United Kingdom EU contribution € 198 999,00 Address Cairnbank road 15a EH26 9DR Penicuik See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Mike Spearman (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Other funding No data VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM United Kingdom EU contribution € 69 000,00 Address Cromwell road, south kensington SW7 2RL London See on map Region London Inner London — West Kensington & Chelsea and Hammersmith & Fulham Activity type Public bodies (excluding Research Organisations and Secondary or Higher Education Establishments) Administrative Contact James Stevenson (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Other funding No data UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW United Kingdom EU contribution € 173 999,00 Address University avenue G12 8QQ Glasgow See on map Region Scotland West Central Scotland Glasgow City Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Seamus Ross (Prof.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA United Kingdom EU contribution € 200 000,00 Address Earlham road NR4 7TJ Norwich See on map Region East of England East Anglia Norwich and East Norfolk Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Tracy Moulton (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data MINISTERE DE LA CULTURE ET DE LA COMMUNICATION France EU contribution € 0,00 Address Rue de valois 3 75042 Paris See on map Region Ile-de-France Ile-de-France Paris Activity type Public bodies (excluding Research Organisations and Secondary or Higher Education Establishments) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Other funding No data