title: 3D-sutras - a web based atlas of laser scanned Buddhist stone inscriptions in China
creator: Auer, Michael
creator: Höfle, Bernhard
creator: Lanig, Sandra
creator: Schilling, Arne
creator: Zipf, Alexander
subject: ddc-550
subject: 550 Earth sciences
description: An important cultural heritage is located in the Chinese providence of Sichuan: about 1000 years ago, Buddhist stone inscriptions have been carved into rock – the Stone Sutras. Archiving the current state of the inscriptions, their transcription and translation into digital assets, their interpretation and provision to the public and scientific community are of a major interest to an interdisciplinary research team of art-historians, geodesists and geographic information scientists. This paper describes the innovative architecture of a Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) which combines standardised geospatial OGC Web Services (OWS) with an existing XML document system providing art-historic and text-scientific information. Further a web-based interactive atlas system for analysis and multimedia presentation in 2D and 3D has been realized as a sustainable solution helping art-historians and text-scientists to examine Buddhist stone inscriptions in the future. Innovative aspects comprise in particular the adaptation of the data pre-processing to enable the portrayal of terrestrial laser scan (TLS) data of relevant sites by a Web 3D Service and furthermore the integration of standards across different domains, including GIS analysis functions relevant for historians and archaeologists through several Web Processing Services (WPS).
publisher: Association of Geographic Information Laboratories for Europe
contributor: Geertman, Stan
date: 2011
type: Book Section
type: info:eu-repo/semantics/bookPart
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
identifier: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/37038/1/auer_et_al_2011_agile_2011.pdf
identifier: DOI:10.11588/heidok.00037038
identifier: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-370387
identifier:   Auer, Michael ; Höfle, Bernhard ; Lanig, Sandra ; Schilling, Arne ; Zipf, Alexander  (2011) 3D-sutras - a web based atlas of laser scanned Buddhist stone inscriptions in China.  [Book Section]     
relation: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/37038/
rights: info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
rights: http://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/help/license_urhg.html
language: eng