Sofia Pescarin

Databases and virtual environments: a good match for communicating complex cultural sites

This work presents the state of the art pr ICT applications related to Cultural Heritage conceived by the project New Institutions for Communicating the City, of Bologna City Council (director Mauro Felicori) and by the Visit Lab of CINECA (project manager Antonella Guidazzoli)

Virtual Rome

Virtual Rome is a project started and carried on by the Virtual Heritage Lab of ITABC-CNR (Institute of Technologies Applied to Cultural Heritage of the Italian National Research Council), in collaboration with CINECA. The Project’s goal is to reconstruct the archaeological and past (potential) landscape of Rome in the 2nd century AD and to build an on-line development and visualization platform based on Open Source software, which is a double-sided tool, consisting of a back-end (VR webLAB) and a front-end (VR webGIS) section. This is a collaborative system developed to manage the data necessary to reconstruct a 3D interactive environment

Virtual Rome: a FOSS approach to WEB3D

The goal of VirtualRome project (www.virtualrome.it) is to provide a web-based infrastructure for distribution, collection, annotation and sharing over the web of 3D interactive content such as actual and reconstructed landscape. For this project we have developed a framework for the integration of 3D realtime application within web browsers; the full functionality is currently available only for Windows Firefox, limited versions are available for Firefox Linux and Explorer. We present a completely FOSS approach to the web deployment of a 3d database consisting of landscape data at different time and different resolution. Components of a deployment platform will be analyzed and We will outline our approach comparing with other available systems.