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PURE3D 2.0

Building a Sustainable and Open Infrastructure for 3D Scholarship

Pure3D

PURE3D 2.0 advances web-based 3D scholarship through the creation of interactive publications (3D Scholarly Editions)—from scholarly arguments and educational curricula to museum stories—by integrating annotations, metadata, and multimodal contextual materials. Building on the existing PURE3D infrastructure, the first open, non-commercial platform for rich 3D-based scholarly narratives, PURE3D 2.0 addresses key gaps in preservation, dynamic analysis, interoperability, and accessibility. Through its three pillars—Workflows, Applications, and User Communities—it delivers sustainable solutions for open publication and skills development, enabling FAIR-compliant, peer-reviewed, and reusable 3D scholarship. PURE3D 2.0 strengthens leadership in digital humanities and heritage, ensuring seamless integration with (inter)national infrastructures.

Participating organisations

Maastricht University
Netherlands eScience Center
University of Amsterdam
Open University in the Netherlands
Delft University of Technology
Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS)
Eur
Koninklijke Bibliotheek
Rij
Cyp
Dig
Smithsonian Institution

Team

Carsten Schnober
Carsten Schnober
Lead eScience Research Engineer
Netherlands eScience Center
0000-0001-9139-1577
Jesse Gonzalez
Research Software Engineer
The Netherlands eScience Center
0000-0002-2170-3253
CP
Chiara Piccoli
Co-Applicant
Universiteit van Amsterdam
0000-0001-9854-4273
JW
Jitte Waagen
Co-Applicant
Universiteit van Amsterdam
0000-0001-8884-3704
TvdH
Tim van der Heijden
Co-Applicant
Open Universiteit: faculties and services
0000-0002-3053-5140
GA
Giorgio Agugiaro
Co-applicant
Delft University of Technology
0000-0002-2611-4650
EK
Eleonore Köhler
Co-Applicant
Georg August Universität Gottingen
0000-0003-1977-9977
CH
Cees Hof
European Network for Biodiversity Information (ENBI)
0000-0001-9624-2431
AF
Andreas Fickers
Association des Professeur de l'Université du Luxembourg (APUL)
0000-0002-6541-228X
SC
Steven Claeyssens
National Library of the Netherlands
0000-0003-1110-5935

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