Costas Papadopoulos and Susan Schreibman Win Digital Infrastructure Grant
Costas Papadopoulos and Susan Schreibman have been awarded a prestigious €1 million grant from the platform Digitale Infrastructuur Social Sciences & Humanities (PDI-SSH). With this grant, they will develop PURE3D: a digital infrastructure for the publication and preservation of 3D scholarship. Such an infrastructure is in the national interest as it addresses a growing research area – elevating 3D models from static representations to digital scholarly editions.Such an infrastructure does not exist anywhere else in the world, providing the Netherlands with the opportunity of being the world leader in the transformation of 3D scholarship.
PURE3D will address the challenges of access and long-term preservation of 3D scholarship by developing:
- An access infrastructure for viewing interactive 3D models (from single objects to virtual worlds) within the context of a scholarly publication format (3D Scholarly Editions);
- A preservation repository to deposit raw files, which, due to their size, format, lack of standards etc., are typically inaccessible to researchers beyond the original creators;
- A conceptual and methodological framework for valorising and evaluating 3D scholarship;
- A centre of excellence for researchers embarking on 3D scholarship.