Bridging Dimensions: Conceptualising, Developing and Exploring 3D Scholarly Editions

This panel explores the idea and creation of 3D Digital Scholarly Editions. We define 3D Scholarly Editions as knowledge sites (Apollon et al., 2014; Driscoll and Pierazzo, 2016; Pierazzo, 2015; Sutherland, 1997) with a 3D model at its centre which is contextualised and annotated multimodally (text, images, video as well as other models) allowing the apparatus to be displayed and read in the same information space as the model. The 3D model at the centre of the edition can be an individual object (e.g. a sculpture, scientific or cultural artefact, or even a toy), or a complex scene including archaeological sites or cityscapes. The panel will focus on 3D Scholarly Editions (Papadopoulos and Schreibman, 2019; Schreibman and Papadopoulos, 2019) created within PURE3D, the national Dutch infrastructure for the publication and preservation of 3D scholarship.