Cineca Interuniversity Consortium, Italy – Antonella GUIDAZZOLI
Cineca is a non-profit-making Inter-university Consortium formed by 67 Italian Universities, 9 National Research Institutions and MIUR – Ministry of Education Universities and Research. It is the largest computing center in Italy and one of the most important in the world. It provides support to the activities of the scientific community through supercomputing and its applications, creates management systems for university administrations and the MIUR and designs and develops information systems for public administration, healthcare and businesses.
Through the VIS.IT LAB (Visual Information Technology Laboratory) of the High Performance Computing department, Cineca has been operating for years in the field of scientific visualization, for Cultural Heritage and Big Data, according to an ecosystem vision and promoting the understanding of the activities of research, even complex, thanks to image synthesis.
VIS.I.T LAB favors the creation of open source frameworks with a cross-media approach, working with multidisciplinary project teams. It also organizes a free school of computer graphics for Cultural Heritage, this year at the XIV edition.
At Visual Heritage EXPO 2018, VisitLab Cineca can presents a showcase of projects (underway and just concluded), such as the I-Media-Cities platform (http://imediacities.eu/), a Horizon2020 project currently in its third year; the short in Computer Graphics “The little Masaccio and the New Towns”, realized for the Museum of the New Towns of San Giovanni Valdarno; examples of VR applications, in the context of wider cross-media projects (MUVI Virtual Museum of Daily life in the 20th century Italy and the Etruscans and the afterlife, both in collaboration with University of Bologna); Isabella D’Este Virtual Studiolo (in collaboration with University of California and Kunsthistorisches Museum, and, as an example of 3D access to databases and historical contents, the Lapidary of the Great War (Santo Stefano complex, Bologna) part of the project “Talking Monuments”.