Project stores 3D images of world historic sites in limestone mine
We're out to build the Alexandria Library of 3D heritage data," said Tom Greaves, executive director of CyArk. Greaves is giving a presentation on the project at the SNW conference here this week.
Other sites around the world for which CyArk has already created digital images include the Leaning Tower of Pisa, the ancient Hindu temple complex at Angkor Wat, Easter Island's head statues, Inca ruins in Peru, and Thebes, the capital of ancient Egypt. Of course, not all the sites are all that ancient. Next week, CyArk will be in Australia generating a 3D digital image of the Sydney Opera House.
Greaves said changing to tape has also addressed latency and availability issues. CyArk makes two copies of its data, one to a tape drive it stores locally, and the other that gets shipped off to Iron Mountain's underground storage facility. Greaves said the locally stored tape drives can be accessed for restoration in less than 24 hours. "And frankly, we don't need 50 millisecond recovery time for most data we use," he said.
CyArk's website has been relatively popular, with 1.5 million hits since going live. CyArk also has an iPad app for viewing the historic sites.
"Visitors to our website can navigate it in 3D," Greaves said.
The website also provides a historic tour of sites, such as the Japanese-American confinement camps that were set up in California during World War II.
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