eprintid: 37038
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creators_name: Auer, Michael
creators_name: Höfle, Bernhard
creators_name: Lanig, Sandra
creators_name: Schilling, Arne
creators_name: Zipf, Alexander
title: 3D-sutras - a web based atlas of laser scanned Buddhist stone inscriptions in China
subjects: ddc-550
divisions: i-120700
keywords: Archaeology, Stone Sutras, Spatial Data Infrastructure, 3D-Visualization, Laser Scanning, Web Atlas
abstract: 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).
date: 2011
publisher: Association of Geographic Information Laboratories for Europe
id_scheme: DOI
id_number: 10.11588/heidok.00037038
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-370387
language: eng
bibsort: AUERMICHAE3DSUTRASAW2011
full_text_status: public
place_of_pub: [S.l.]
pagerange: 1-8
book_title: Advancing geoinformation science for a changing world : proceedings of the 14th AGILE International Conference on Geographic Information Science; 18 - 21 April, Utrecht
editors_name: Geertman, Stan
citation:   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]     
document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/37038/1/auer_et_al_2011_agile_2011.pdf