A communication design approach to 3D visualisation projects in the Humanities (original) (raw)

To encourage researchers, educators and cultural heritage organisations to adopt these requirements as 'best practice', the London Charter was produced, establishing internationallyrecognised principles for the use of computer-based visualisation. The London Charter includes recommendations for creating documentation ('paradata') that ensures that research-based models are 'intellectually transparent' -i.e. that they adequately communicate the knowledge and interpretation that they represent: Documentation of the evaluative, analytical, deductive, interpretative and creative decisions made in the course of computer-based visualisation should be disseminated in such a way that the relationship between research sources, implicit knowledge, explicit reasoning, and visualisation-based outcomes can be understood. (London Charter, Principle 4.6) However, while the London Charter has attracted widespread recognition, relatively few projects seem fully to implement its principles; in most cases the 'intellectual capital' produced by the research process is either not made available to the end user/reader, or is completely lost:

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