3D Consortium

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The 3D SHS Consortium was created in 2014 by Huma-Num to meet a growing need for expertise in 3D practices in Humanities. Since 2014, Archeovision has been leading this consortium, labeled for 4 years.

In 2018, the Huma-Num Scientific Council renewed its labeling for a new quadrennial (2018 – 2021).

Uses of 3D technologies are diversifying and occupying an increasingly important place in the processes of studying human societies.
Several research teams play a role in the appropriation of these new tools and thus collaborate in the emergence of new practices.
The 3D consortium proposes a network of heavily involved units to federate these practices.

The need to structure the use of 3D in a national consortium meets several objectives:

Embrace all the uses of 3D for the study of human societies
Coordinate and structure the production of 3D models at a national level and help the leading positioning of French teams
Disseminate“guidelines” for the use of 3D in the partner network.

These concerns reflect the desire of all actors in the 3D consortium to connect together, coordinate and / or pool their efforts in order to optimize the insertion of 3D methodologies in the service of research objectives, at regional, national and international level.

The consortium proposes to:

Alert research stakeholders in Humanities to issues related to the use of 3D models
Clarify the vocabulary associated with 3D technologies for digital humanities
Pool resources (rendering, calculation, conservatory, backup, license server cluster)
Develop specific 3D tools for humanities in open source
Spread good practices (methodology, formats, metadata schema, etc.)
Promote multidisciplinary partnerships (Computer Science / Digital Humanities) respecting the objectives of each
Take into account the problems of using 3D coming from field work
Identify scientific contexts of 3D productions and place of deposit of 3D models
Set up the 3D National Repository and a web portal, listing all 3D models produced in Humanities, make it all work together.

The work produced for the first 4 years are collected in the white paper.

Know more about the 3D consortium

contact : consortium3d-coordination@services.cnrs.fr

Teams members of the 3D consortium 3D for Humanities