The “Sharing new perspectives” project, in which CARARE is a partner, will contribute to increasing access to digital resources of European heritage in response to the Connecting Europe Facility’s deployment of the Europeana digital service infrastructure to encourage cross-border use and use of cultural heritage digital resources. The project will do this by using 3D as a driver to encourage users to discover, select and interact with content made accessible through Europeana. The project’s tools will enable users to both produce and consume digital cultural heritage content and to create new materials for personal interest, education, tourism, research and creative industry uses.

1. Sharing new perspectives:
Your 3D view on Europeana
Kate Fernie, CARARE
3D reconstruction of clay model, Andrea Bernardoni and Riccardo Braga, Museo Galileo, Florence CC-BY-NC-ND

2. Creating tools for sharing and using 3D
and other digital heritage
Museums, Cultural Institutions
Schools, Students, Researchers
Register, upload, search and create

3. Rationale #1: Awareness
Cultural institutions, Europeana, 3D creators, end users
There’s lots of great content in Europeana
We want to reach out and engage
end-users by allowing them to share their
3D content and to use materials in
Europeana to create stories
A man and a giant yellow frog, Burrage.
Welcome Collection CC BY

4. Rationale #2: 3D as a driver
In the last few years it has become much easier to create 3D.
The creation of 3D models of monuments, buildings and
museum objects has become more routine.
Ordinary citizens have access to 3D creation tools on their
smartphones.
There’s a buzz of interest about 3D
Sketchfab has made it easy for anyone to publish and share 3D
and has a growing community of users in cultural institutions
and education.
3D Model of the Cross of St Patrick and St Columba, Kells, Discovery Programme, CC-BY-NC-ND

5. Activity #1: Desktop
Getting content in to Sketchfab and Europeana in one operation
1. Upload content to Sketchfab
2. Capture metadata needed for
Sketchfab and Europeana
3. Publish the content and metadata
to Sketchfab and Europeana
Challenge: Making it easy

6. Activity #2: Story telling tool
Finding content in Sketchfab and Europeana and using it to create a new interactive
resource.
Other activities: Providing guidelines, templates and use cases
Concept behind the
story telling tool

7. Thanks for your attention
Project facts
CEF-TC-2017-3
Generic services project
Started 1 Sept 2018
Ends 28 Feb 2020
Team
• Athena Research Centre
• NoHo Limited
• Visual Dimension bvba
• Vilnius University Faculty of
Communications
• CARARE
Contact: kfernie27@gmail.com