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D10.1: Quantity of access offered

Author: Roberto Scopigno, Matteo Dellepiane, CNR, ISTI-CNR

Ariadne is funded by the European Commission’s 7th Framework Programme.

Theviewsandopinionsexpressedinthisreportarethesoleresponsibilityoftheauthor(s)anddonotnecessarilyreflecttheviewsoftheEuropeanCommission.

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Version:2.0 25thOctober2016

Authors: RobertoScopigno,MatteoDellepiane,CNRISTI-CNR

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Tableofcontents1 ExecutiveSummary...................................................................................................................5

2 Introduction................................................................................................................................5

3 GoalsandorganizationoftheTNAon“2D/3DDocumentationforArchaeology”........6

4 2014TNAon“2D/3DDocumentationforArchaeology”....................................................7

5 2015TNAon“2D/3DDocumentationforArchaeology”..................................................11

6 2016TNAon“2D/3DDocumentationforArchaeology”..................................................14

7 Evaluationandconcludingremarks.....................................................................................17

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Documenthistory

Date Activity Contributors

30thJuly2016 WritingfirstdraftoftheDeliverable

CNR

30thAugust2016 Furtherrevision,FirstversionoftheDeliverable

CNR

30thSeptember2016 Revisiontocorrectatypo(missingdataononeparticipant)

CNR

18October2016 QualityControlReview UoYADS

25October2016 Finalreportproducedanddelivered

CNR

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1 ExecutiveSummary

This deliverable presents the activity developed in the framework of Work Package 10 “3DDocumentation of Fieldwork and Artefacts”, aimed at providing training and assistance on thetechnologiesandmethodologiesfor3D/2Ddataacquisitionanddataset/repositorymanagementofarchaeologicalfindings.ThereportpresentsthethreeiterationsoftheTNA,heldin2014,2015and2016, which allowed CNR to host and support 26 visitors. We present in the report all theseparticipants,providinga synthetic informationonpersonaldata, their submittedprojectand theirpersonal evaluationof the TNAexperience. The report concludeswith some final remarks on theoverallevaluationofthisexperience.

2 IntroductionThisdocumentpresentstheactivitydevelopedintheframeworkofWorkPackage10(WP10).

ThegoalofWP10 is toprovidetrainingandassistanceonthetechnologiesandmethodologies for3D/2Ddata acquisition anddataset/repositorymanagement of archaeological findings. TheVisualComputing Lab at ISTI-CNR is a leading organization on this domain. The facilities offered includestate-of-the-art data capture equipment, such as cameras, several 3D scanning devices based ondifferent technologies (laser, structured light, timeof flight)and thenecessaryhardware/softwarepost-processinginstruments(mostnotablyMeshLab,anOpenSourcesoftwaredevelopedatVCLabwithhundredthousandsofusersintheworld)andstorageresources.VCLaboffersalsoexpertiseonmanaging‘big’datamodelsandadvancedviewingandbrowsingsoftware.

Wehavehostedatotalof26visitorsinthreeeditionsoftheTNA,heldin2014,2015and2016.Alloftheseparticipantshavebeenselectedwithaformalprocess(submissionofaproposal,evaluationoftheproposalbyapoolofexternalexperts,selectionoftheawardees).

The content presented in the following sections is a synthetic presentation of the participants,including personal information, submitted project and of their personal evaluation of thetraining/support received. To compile this short presentation we started from the informationcontainedintheparticipants’applicationsandintheuserfeedbacksubmittedbyparticipants.

ThisDeliverable isorganizedas follows:Section2presents thegoalsandorganizationof theTNA;Section3presentstheparticipantstothe2014TNA;Section4presentstheparticipantstothe2015TNA;Section5presentstheparticipantstothe2016TNA;finally,Section6presentstheresultsoftheevaluationandsomeconcludingremarks.

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3 Goals and organization of the TNA on “2D/3DDocumentationforArchaeology”

The Trans-National Access (TNA) event on “2D/3D Documentation for Archaeology” has beenorganizedthreetimesintheframeworkoftheARIADNEproject:

• Firstedition:June23rd-27th,2014• Secondedition:June22nd-26th,2015• Thirdedition:June20th-24th,2016

Allofthemwereweek-longevents,organizedbyCNR-ISTIinPisa,Italy.

Thegoaloftheseeventswastoprovideparticipantswithbothastructuredcourseonvisualmediatechnologies andpractical, hands-on sessions to test and experimentwith the technologies beingpresented.Individualworkisaprimarycomponentoftheexperience.Studentshavebeenaskedtosubmit the research projects or tasks to be accomplished during the school, in order to start oradvancetheirknowledge,withthehelp,expertiseandadvicecontributedbytheTNAtutors,sothatpracticewiththetechnologiesismadethroughthecasestudiesbroughtbythestudents.

Concerning thecourse lessons,wehave introduced: (a) thetechnologies forproducing2Dand3Ddocumentation forarchaeologicalpurposes, consideringboth the small scale (artworks, finds)andthelargescale(monuments,sites);and(b)themethodologiesforprovidingvisualaccesstothedatagathered(consideringbothdesktopandweb-basedvisualization).

Participantswere selectedafterparticipation in anopen call by a committeeof experts. Foreachyearweaccepted:

• 2014:9participantswithfellowships(fromEUcountries)and2externals(fromItaly).• 2015:7participantswithfellowships(fromEUcountries)• 2016: 9 participantswith fellowships (from EU countries) and 3 externals (from Italy and

Cyprus).

Wereportinthefollowingthedataandthefeedbackrelatedtotheparticipantswithfellowship.

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4 2014TNAon“2D/3DDocumentationforArchaeology”

FromJune23rdto27th,2014,CNR-ISTIhostedinPisatheSummerSchoolon"2D/3DDocumentationforArchaeology",aspartoftheARIADNETransnationalAccess(TNA)activities.

Themain goal of the schoolwas to enable scholars and professionals to endorse and implementmodernapproaches for thevisualmultimediadocumentationofartworksandarchaeological sites(i.e.fieldworksandartefacts),includingseveralinnovativeapproachestodigitizeanddocumentourheritageusing3Dandenhanced2Dmedia.

The scopeof theTNAandof the summer schoolwas topaira classicalprogrambasedon frontallessons with amore practical activity where hands-on experience on the technologies presented(both hardware and software) was considered a main component of the school experience.Moreover, we have solicited participants to submit specific problems and test cases they areworkingwith; this test bedswere an important criterion in the selection of the participants (theevaluationoftheparticipantswasbasedontheCVandonthequalityandinterestofthetestcaseproposed). Consequently, the program of the school was designed to dedicate sufficient time toadvisethestudentonthepracticalhands-onexperienceandindevelopingtheirproposedcasestudywiththehelpofthetechnologiespresentedinthecourse.

ThelistofparticipantstothisTNAisasfollows:

The selected eleven participants (9 were assigned an ARIADNE fellowships and 2 come at theirexpenses) were from several different countries (Argentina, Belgium, Estonia, Germany, Greece,

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Italy,Netherlands,UK)andhadamixedbackground(inthemajorityahumansciencebackground,onlyafewholdinganengineeringdegree).

The instructors were a selection of the researchers of the Visual Computing Lab(http://vcg.isti.cnr.it/) at CNR-ISTI: Matteo Dellepiane, Marco Callieri, Gianpaolo Palma, MarcoPotenzianiandRobertoScopigno.

Theschoolstartedwithaself-presentationofthestudentsandoftheprojects/casestudieseachofthem has proposed. After this introductory step we have planned a first lesson to build up acommonlanguageandacommonbackgroundonbasicICTandvisualtechnologyconcepts.Thentheworkwasorganizedwithasingledaydedicatedtoeachspecificsub-topic (active3Dscanninganddataprocessing,image-basedapproachesfor3Ddigitization,colouracquisitionandmappingon3Dmodels, RTI images). Other topics, like the issues and technologies enabling the publication andvisualizationof3D/2Dmodelsontheweb,theadvancedmanipulationof3Dmodels,andtheuseof3DinCulturalHeritageprojectsweretoucheddifferenttimesthroughoutthefivedays.Allthetopicshavebeenfirstlypresentedtheoretically,andthenpracticallywithsomehands-ononrealdatasets.

Thescheduleofeachdaywasarrangedsuchthatsometimewasleftattheendofthedayforthestudentstoexperimentthepresentedtopicsontheirowndata(orontestdatasetweprovided),andforindividualquestion-answersessionswiththeinstructors.

The last day, beside finishing some still open topics,was dedicated to the completion of the testcasesproposedbythestudents,tothepresentationoftheresultsobtainedandtoafinaldiscussionandwrapup.

The course has witnessed a fruitful cooperation between instructors and students, providingbenefits to all participants: the students had the opportunity to be instructed on the CNR toolsdirectly by the authors, in a structured context that includedalsopractical hands-onexperiences;the instructorshad thechance towitnessanumberof interesting testcases,extremelyhelpful tobetterunderstand theneedsof theCHcommunityand toassess theusabilityof themore recenttoolsandtechnologies.

Thedetailedprogramwasasfollows:

Monday23rdJune

09.30–10.30Presentationofthecourse

10.30–13.00Presentationoftheparticipants,preliminarydiscussion

13.00–14.00Lunch

14.00–15.30Introductionon3Dgraphics

15.30–18.00IntroductiontoMeshLab+basic

Tuesday24thJune

09.00–10.303Dscanning:theory

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10.30–13.003Dscanning:practice,dataprocessing

13.00–14.00Lunch

14.00–16.00MeshLabadvancedprocessing

16.00–18.00Workondata

Wednesday25thJune

09.00–10.30Multi-viewstereomatching:theory

10.30–13.00Multi-viewstereomatching:practice,dataprocessing

13.00–14.00Lunch

14.00–16.00Publishing3DcontentsontheWeb,using3DHop


Thursday26thJune

09.00–10.30Colorprojectionon3Dmodels

10.30–11.45RTIImaging:theory

11.45–13.00RTIImaging:practice

13.00–14.00Lunch

14.00–15.00RTIimagesprocessingandpublishingontheWeb

15.00–16.00Wrapup


20.30Socialdinner

Friday27thJune

09.00–11.00Closingupwiththeory,examples

11.00–13.00Studentspresentationsandfeedback

13.00–14.00Lunch


16.00–17.30Wrapupandconclusions

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Name Institution CountryofInst

Nationality

School Email

Orla-PeachPower

University CollegeCork

Ireland Irish 3D [email protected]

AdelaKovaks

National Museum ofEasternCarpathians

Romania Romanian

3D [email protected]

MichaelAnnBevivino

DiscoveryProgramme

Ireland USA 3D [email protected]

JugoslavPendic

University ofBelgrade

Serbia Serbian 3D [email protected]

MartinDuffy

University CollegeDublin


Rens deHond

Spatial InformationLaboratory (SPINlab)| VU UniversityAmsterdam

Netherlands

Dutch 3D [email protected]

OscarMartinezRubi

NetherlandseScienceCenter

Netherlands

Spanish 3D [email protected]

StefanVerhoeven

NetherlandseScienceCenter

Netherlands

Dutch 3D [email protected]

Theprogramoftheschoolwasasfollows:

Monday22ndJune


10.30–10:45Break

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10.45–13.00Presentationoftheparticipants,preliminarydiscussion

13.00–14.00Lunch

14.00–15.30Introductionon3Dgraphics

15.30–18.00IntroductiontoMeshLab+basic

Tuesday23rdJune


10.30–10:45Break


13.00–14.00Lunch



Wednesday24hJune


10.30–10:45Break


12.00–13.00Publishing3DcontentsontheWeb,introduction

13.00–14.00Lunch

14.00–16.00Publishing3DcontentsontheWebusing3DHop


Thursday25thJune

09.00–10.30Colorprojectiononsampled3Dmodels

10.30–10:45Break

10.45–11.45RTIImaging:theory&practice

11.45–13.00RTIImaging:processingandpublishingontheWeb

13.00–14.00Lunch

14.00–16.003DfabricationtechnologiesandusesforCH

15.00–16.00Wrapup

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20.30Socialdinner

Friday25thJune


10.45–11:00Break


13.00–14.00Lunch



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TheINFRAproject“ARIADNE”(http://www.ariadne-infrastructure.eu/)organizedthethirdeditionoftheTrans-NationalAccess(TNA)eventon“2D/3DDocumentationforArchaeology”.Thisone-weekeventwasorganizedbyCNR-ISTIinPisaonJune20th-24th,2016.

The goal of this event is to provide participants with both a structured course on visual mediatechnologies and practical hands-on sessions to test and experimentwith the technologies beingpresented.Individualworkisaprimarycomponentoftheexperience.Studentshavebeenaskedtosuggestresearchprojectsortaskstobeaccomplishedduringtheschoolbymeansoftheexpertiseandadvicecontributedby theTNA tutors, so thatpracticewith the technologies ismade throughthecasestudiesbroughtbythestudents.

Participantshavebeenselectedafterparticipation toanopencallbyacommitteeofexperts.Wehad a very good response to the call, with many qualified submissions sufficient to fill all theavailablenine fellowship positions.Wedecided to accept also threemoreparticipants (one fromCyprusandtwofromItaly),whichcameattheirexpenses.


Name Institution Country ofInst

Nationality School Email

JugoslavPendic Serbia Serbia 3D [email protected]

RicardoDias University ofPorto - EmpatiaArqueologia

Portugal Portuguese 3D [email protected]

Miguel Carrero-Pazos

University ofSantiago deCompostela

Spain Spanish 3D [email protected]

DavidHerisson INRAP France French 3D [email protected]

StephenKehoe DiscoveryProgramme


SophieC.Schmidt University ofCologne

Germany German 3D [email protected]

MyrsiniSamaroudi University ofBrighton

UK Greek 3D [email protected]

DespinaPapacharalambous

CyprusInstitute CY Cypriot 3D [email protected]

EleniMoustaka IonianUniversity

GR Greek 3D [email protected]

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Concerning the course lessons, we introduced: (a) the technologies for producing 2D and 3Ddocumentation for archaeological purposes, considering both the small scale (artworks, findings)andthelargescale(monuments,sites);and(b)themethodologiesforprovidingvisualaccesstothedata gathered (considering both desktop andweb-based visualization). Tutors discussedwith thestudents the projects they suggested, concerning large scale acquisition and modelling (castles,architectures), medium scale (megalithic rocks with inscriptions) and small scale findingsmanagement (archeological excavation findings, lithic artefacts, ceramics); students receivedsuggestionsandadvicesonhowtoprogressonthoseprojects.MatteoDellepianeandMarcoCallieriwere themain CNR-ISTI tutors and instructors in the TNA. Administrative issues and organizationweremanagedbyFrancescaDeMitry.

Thefeedbackgivenbytheparticipantsattheendofthecoursewasextremelypositive.Allofthemcompiledbothan internalquestionnaireand theusualECwebquestionnaire.Studentscommentshavebeenhighlyenthusiasticonthequalityoftrainingandcommitmentoftheteachers.

Thedetailedprogramwasasfollows:

Monday20thJune


10.30–10:45Break

10.45 – 13.00 Presentation of the participants, preliminary discussion of participants’projects/problems

13.00–14.00Lunch

14.00–15.30Introductionto3Dgraphics

15.30–18.00IntroductiontoMeshLab(basicfunctionalities)

Tuesday21stJune


10.30–10:45Break


13.00–14.00Lunch



Wednesday22ndJune

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10.30–10:45Break


12.00–13.00Publishing3DcontentsontheWeb,introduction

13.00–14.00Lunch

14.00–16.00Publishing3DcontentsontheWebusing3DHop


Thursday23rdJune

09.00–10.30Colorprojectiononsampled3Dmodels

10.30–10:45Break

10.45–11.45RTIImaging:theory&practice

11.45–13.00RTIImaging:processingandpublishingontheWeb

13.00–14.00Lunch

14.00–16.003DfabricationtechnologiesandusesforCH

15.00–16.00Wrapup


20.30Socialdinner

Friday24thJune


10.45–11:00Break

11.00–13.00Students’projectspresentationsandfeedback

13.00–14.00Lunch

14.00–16.00Students’projectspresentationsandfeedback


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7 Evaluationandconcludingremarks

AsyntheticpresentationoftheinformationprovidedbytheparticipantsintheirevaluationreportsispresentedintheAppendix1(Note:thisappendixwillberemovedfromthepublicversionofthisreportsincewedonothavethepermissionfromparticipantstopublishtheirreports).

The large majority of our TNA attendants were coming from academia (universities or researchlabs); only a few of them come from industries (SMEs). We had a good mix of students (PhDstudentsorpost-master)andprofessionals(researchersorpost-doc).

All students filled in both the online “EC User Group” questionnaire(https://ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/RIsurveyUSERS) and the “ARIADNE TNA User FeedbackReport”.

Thecomments(boththewrittenonesandtheverbalonescommunicatedtotheinstructorsduringtheTNAorinthesocialevents)wereverypositive.

Most of the participants declared that they would not be able to attend the school without thescholarshipsgrantedbytheproject.

Wereportherearesumeofthecommentsorthesuggestionstoimprovetheformatorthecontentof the TNA contained in the review reports. As it can be evaluated in reading the followingcomments, the overall feedback given by participantswas very positive and the comments listedherearemostlysuggestionsonsmallchangesorsmallimprovements.Weresumeanddiscussthoseinthefollowing:

• ThecontentoftheTNA(technologiesandmethodologiestouchedandexperimentedintheTNA)might require a longer training period (>5 days).Moreover, a longer training periodcouldprovideevenstrongerknowledgeexchangeandteamco-operation,whichcanbethebase of the new synergy and scientific research. Another opportunity could be to plan asecondTNAperiod,tobeusedtocheckthelevelreachedbyvisitors(afterhomework)andtoadvanceanddeepnsomeselectedtopics.

Discussion:ourworkplaninARIADNEincludedasingleTNAperyear;therationalewasthemore simple process of advertising/collecting application/evaluating applications/runningtheTNA.Thesuggestionofa two-phasesTNA is cleverandcouldbe taken intoaccount infutureproposalsandrelatedTNAplanning.

• Cost of participation: since summer is costlier than other periods of the year, organizerscouldevaluateadifferentperiodtohosttheTNAtoreduceparticipationexpenses.

Discussion: This is true, but on the other hand summer is an ideal period formost of theparticipants (due to closure of teaching in universities or lower didactical assignments forPHDstudents).

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• Participants really liked to work with their own data, so as to learn to work around anypossible issueson real case studies.However, in some cases they selectedprojectswhichweretoomuchcomplexfortheshorttimeavailableattheTNA.

Discussion: Wehave reacted to this suggestion (dated2014). In the subsequent2015and2016 editions we have contacted the participants that have proposed too much complexprojects, giving suggestions before the TNA on how to reduce the complexity to amanageablesize.

• ImprovetheadvertisementoftheTNAandimprovethedescriptionoftheprogram.

Discussion:Wedidourbesttodisseminatewidelythecalls,alsousingsocialmedia.

• Whiletheavailabilityofbursarieshasbeenhighlyappreciatedbythevisitors,someofthemexpressedconcernsonthefinancialmanagementofthereimburses:somepeoplemaynotafford to participate since some of the payments (like flight tickets or accommodationbooking)mustbedonelongbeforetheactualTNA.Forthefuture,basedonthecontract,animprovement would be to offer a percentage of the sum in advance. This is importantconsideringthesalariesformsouth-easternEurope,comparingtootherEUstates.

Discussion: due to administrative rules of the organizing partner (CNR), fellowships couldonlybegrantedasexpensesreimburse,thuswehadtowaitthedeliveryofallreceiptsfromthe visitors (and the results of a relatedadministrative check) before beingable to refundthem.

• Enlargethetopicspresented(e.g.basicwebdesigncoursemightprovideimportantskillsforpractitionersworkingindigitalarchaeology,oranin-depthdescriptionofBlenderwouldbeavalidasset)

Discussion: this is a demonstration that there is request for training beyond the (alreadyprobably too many) topics included in the TNA on visual media documentation. This is astimulusfortheredesignofthistypeofoffer;itshouldbeprobablyorganizedbysettingupdifferenttypesofTNAconcerningvisualmediamanagement.Onepossiblepolicycouldbetoplan and advertise several TNA opportunities (with different technical content), solicitingregistrations/declarations of interest by potential visitors and by activating only the onesthatreachaminimalnumberofregistrations.

• Finally,afewvisitorssuggestedtoaddsomepracticalon-the-fieldexperience,i.e.goingoutofthelabwithsome3Dscanningdevicestomakesomereal-casetestandexperience.

Discussion:thiscanbedone,butrequiressomedecentamountoftime.Havingonly5daysavailable,inourplanningweexcludedthepossibilitytomakeexperimentsonthefield(sincethiswould have consumedat least a single day, so 20%of the available time).Moreover,

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mostofthevisitorsalreadyhadamediumtogoodexperiencewith3Dsamplingdevices,sotheymightconsiderthisactivityasredundantwithrespecttotheirpreviousexperience.

In conclusion,weare convinced that the TNAon “3DDocumentationof Fieldwork andArtefacts”fulfilled itsobjectives,byoffering theattendeesas completeaspossiblepictureof the innovativevisualtechnologiesandmethodologiesthatcanbeendorsedinthedocumentationofarchaeology.

During itsoffering, thecoursehasbeenmodified (themesandtimeorganization) toadjust to: thecomments received in previous editions, the background of the attendees and their plannedprojects,andfinallytheevolutionofthevisualmediaand3Ddigitization.

Attendancehasbeenverygood,sincewehadnoprobleminfindingmotivatedandqualifiedvisitors.Thefeedbackprovidedbyvisitorswasverypositive.

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