Virtual Reconstruction 3.0: New Approach of Web-based Visualisation and Documentation of Lost Cultural Heritage

The paper presents the project entitled “Virtual Reconstructions in Transnational Research Environments the Portal: ‘Palaces and Parks in former East Prussia”’ in the light of the Semantic Web and Open Source technologies. The researches are focused on certification, classification, annotation, storage and visualisation of 3D data sets, proposing methodology of the computer-based 3D computer reconstruction of Cultural Heritage, which are still lacking. The multinational and interdisciplinary project with interactive 3D models being part of a semantic data model, is concerned with designing a Virtual Research Environment. Our approach affects the entire process of digital 3D reconstruction with the development of an XML schema called Cultural Heritage Markup Language as a groundwork for an application ontology.