EUreka3D is working to provide support, capacity building and some solutions to the challenges faced by Cultural Heritage Institutions (CHIs) in their digital transformation journey, particularly concerning the implementation of high quality 3D digitisation and their sharing to different stakeholders and in the common European data space for cultural heritage.
CHIs need technical solutions to enable their collections to transit to the digital realm and then be offered to users. EUreka3D will fulfil this need through the development of the EUreka3D Data Hub, a pilot e-infrastructure based in Europe. The EUreka3D platform is currently being developed by partner EGI Foundation in collaboration with Cyfronet, involving e-infrastructure providers and cultural heritage institutions. It is an essential component of the EUreka3D project and offers solutions for data, metadata and paradata management and storage, and for delivering 3D collections to users’ platforms like Europeana. The publication process of the datasets in Europeana is coordinated by partner PHOTOCONSORTIUM, accredited aggregator for Europeana.
In simple terms, what you can do in EUreka3D platform is:
- Upload different versions/formats of 3D models, to be shared with different authorization of access depending on user’s need/preferences
- Visualize the model in a viewer that is compatible with Europeana
- Input metadata, already in the Europeana Data Model, via a simple metadata input form
- Link contextual information and paradata to each model, to be shared to the public
- Assign PIDs to the public objects to grant their long-term preservation online
- Publish such openly accessible objects in the Europeana portal
Contact us to get more information on how to access the EUreka3D Data Hub and share your collections to Europeana: info@photoconsortium.net
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The EUreka3D platform is technically supported by different components; three of them are the core of the EUreka3D technical platform:
- The EGI Check-in service, an Identity and Access Management system that supports the processes of authentication (verifying who the user is) and authorisation (reporting what a user can do in a system).
- EGI Cloud Compute, which provides virtual servers in the cloud on demand. Cloud technologies address the intrinsic problems associated with the management of physical servers, such as cost and time-consuming procurement processes, expertise to manage and maintain them, hardware failure and scalability.
- The EGI DataHub, which provides a federated distributed system for data management and data publication. DataHub relies heavily on the cloud storage available for EUreka3D, which is one of the core components of the project. DataHub can also communicate with the Europeana platform to perform the required content aggregation.
