External Site: CyArk 3D Heritage Archive Network[info]
CyArk is a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving World Heritage Sites through collecting, archiving and providing open access to data created by 3-D laser scanning, digital modelling, and other state-of-the-art technologies. All the media have clear spatial referencing and are easily reached through a map-based user interface. The archive currently documents and provides online access to 9 sites in Egypt, France, Peru, Cambodia, Guatemala, Italy, Brazil and the United States. Data takes the form of panoramas, videos, scans, photographs and drawings and uses Quicktime, Macromedia Flash Player and Octree Viewer. The open terms of Creative Commons licensing enable users to incorporate these high-quality media items into new original works.