Communicating in Three Dimensions: Questions of Audience and Reuse in 3D Excavation Documentation Practice

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dc.creatorRabinowitz, Adam
dc.date.accessioned2021-01-19T02:33:06Z
dc.date.available2021-01-19T02:33:06Z
dc.date.issued2019-08-18
dc.description.abstractAfter excavating the Praedia of Iulia Felix at Pompeii in 1755, architect Karl Weber published the building with an axionometric illustration that showed the remains in three-dimensional perspective. In doing so, Weber communicated additional information about the form of the building in a manner that was both visually accessible to a lay audience and sufficiently “scientific” for a scholarly one. By contrast, digital 3D documentation methods in current archaeological practice can reinforce a division between “scientific” models intended for internal consumption by the project that produces them, and external communication in the form of lower-quality online digital displays. Using recent fieldwork at the Greek colonial site of Histria in Romania as a case-study, this paper explores the space between high-resolution contextualized 3D documentation used only by an internal audience and down-scaled, decontextualized 3D content designed for public consumption. In particular, it explores whether measurable 3D models derived from photogrammetric capture are useful in communicating excavation results to non-specialists – and if so, in what ways. It presents several scenarios for the role of high-quality 3D documentation in both formal and informal scholarly communication and discusses the potential for the reuse of such documentation to answer new research questions.en_US
dc.description.departmentOffice of the VP for Researchen_US
dc.identifier.doi10.14434/sdh.v3i1.25386
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2152/84315
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.26153/tsw/11303
dc.relation.ispartofPlanet Texas 2050 - Published Researchen_US
dc.rights.restrictionOpenen_US
dc.subjectphotogrammetryen_US
dc.subjectscholarly communicationen_US
dc.subject3D modelingen_US
dc.subjectdigital documentationen_US
dc.titleCommunicating in Three Dimensions: Questions of Audience and Reuse in 3D Excavation Documentation Practiceen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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