Open Technologies for the 3D Cultural Heritage Digitisation Pipeline
Abstract. This paper introduces the 3D-4CH project and its open framework, i.e. a sustainable ecosystem of tools designed to overcome the fragmentation and limited maintainability of previous EU-funded 3D heritage initiatives. Aligned with the European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage (ECCCH), the framework integrates an end-to-end pipeline for 3D data generation and processing, semantic enrichment and long-term dissemination, including metadata and paradata inclusion. The 3D-4CH initiative bridges the gap between ICT research and operational heritage practices, ensuring the scalability and reproducibility of 3D digital assets for crossinstitutional data sharing and preservation. All software components, including GitHub repositories and online processing frameworks, are openly available, in accordance with open science principles and FAIR data practices. Further information is available at https://www.3d4ch-competencecentre.eu/en/tools/.
Authors
- Fotis Arnaoutoglou (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3607-1807)
- Vangelis Nomikos (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4711-8677)
- Elisa Mariarosaria Farella (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3404-6395)
- Marco Medici (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9643-4721)
- Fabio Remondino (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6097-5342)
- Anestis Koutsoudis (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9862-7335)
- Peter Bonsma (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5868-6426)
- Anthony Pamart
- Niki Kyriakou
Institutions
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
- University of Ferrara (IT)
- Fondazione Bruno Kessler (IT)
- Talent Systems (Greece) (GR)
- Délégation Provence et Corse (FR)
- University of Finance, Business and Entrepreneurship (BG)
- Athena Research and Innovation Center In Information Communication & Knowledge Technologies (GR)
Publication Details
- Journal
- The international archives of the photogrammetry, remote sensing and spatial information sciences/International archives of the photogrammetry, remote sensing and spatial information sciences
- Published
- 2026-07-23
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-xlix-b2-2026-787-2026
- Primary Topic
- 3D Surveying and Cultural Heritage
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00