IDOVIR - Infrastructure for Documentation of Virtual Reconstructions

The research project IDOVIR strives for making results in the field of digital architectural reconstruction available in a comprehensible, permanent, and open-access form and to facilitate scientific discussion of the research results.

Brief description

The project outcome is to be seen as documentation of decisions, i.e., presentation of
1. the reasons for a specific reconstruction,
2. further possible variants,
3. comprehensible documentation of negative results.

Central here is the textual argumentation, i.e., a qualitative analysis that connects a digital reconstruction with sources and which only makes it possible to trace the connection between the sources used and the reconstruction. At the same time, the project infrastructure should support and meaningfully structure the communication of those involved in the genesis of a reconstruction.

In order to further increase the practice of documentation, IDOVIR will be further developed in a targeted manner. On the one hand, wider acceptance and willingness to use IDOVIR will be achieved through additional support for workflows focussing on automated data entry and the transfer of freely available data, as well as the provision of additional target group-oriented tools. On the other hand, the communication aspect is to be strengthened and IDOVIR is to be integrated even more effectively during the creation process of a reconstruction, so that the documentation no longer represents any significant additional work in the end. The convincing and profitable use of IDOVIR during the reconstruction phase provides decisive impetus for the creation of documentation.

To summarise, the objectives of the follow-up project can be divided into three areas:
1. Dissemination and further publicisation of IDOVIR
2. Automation of data input/transfer
3. Improvement of workflows and expansion of the tools offered – especially those that support communication between participants during the reconstruction phase

Project status

01.06.2024 – 31.05.2026

Cooperations

Wolfgang Stille – hessian.AI

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Oliver Tessmann – FG Digitales Gestalten, TU Darmstadt

Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Markus Wacker – Fakultät Informatik/Mathematik, HTW Dresden

Further information

Funding