Paradata in 3D Scholarship

The workshop, ‘Paradata in 3D Scholarship: Intellectual Transparency and Scholarly Argumentation in Digital Heritage’ aims to tackle the critical challenges of documenting paradata in 3D heritage visualisations. By developing actionable standards and tools, this highly collaborative and interactive workshop seeks to ensure transparency, reliability, and reusability in 3D scholarship. It will bring together experts from academia, museums, industry, and cultural institutions, including representatives from the Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A) and The Smithsonian Institution. Participants will engage in hands-on activities, break-out sessions, and prototyping exercises to co-create a paradata model and integrate it into existing infrastructures like Smithsonian’s Voyager and PURE3D. Research Software Engineers from the eScience Centre will be instrumental in leading the conceptualisation and implementation of the technical solutions during and after the workshop. The outcomes aim to set a global benchmark for intellectual transparency in digital heritage while fostering interdisciplinary dialogue and innovation.