Costas Papadopoulos awarded Open Science NL grant

Costas Papadopoulos has been awarded €1.5 million by Open Science NL to lead PURE3D2.0, a next-generation infrastructure for 3D scholarship.
 

About the project

PURE3D2.0 supports web-based 3D scholarship by creating interactive 3D publications for research, teaching, and museum storytelling. These publications combine 3D models with annotations, metadata, and other media to provide rich scholarly context. Building on the existing PURE3D platform – the first open, non-commercial system for 3D scholarly narratives – PURE3D2.0 tackles major challenges in long-term preservation, analysis, interoperability, and accessibility. Organized around three pillars – Workflows, Applications, and User Communities – the project offers sustainable tools for open publishing and skills development, supporting FAIR, peer-reviewed, and reusable 3D research. PURE3D2.0 strengthens leadership in digital humanities and cultural heritage and connects smoothly with national and international research infrastructures.

The consortium consists of international partners, spanning heritage institutions, universities, and digital infrastructure leaders:

• Maastricht University (Coordinating Institution)
• University of Amsterdam
• Open University
• Delft University of Technology
• DANS – Data Archiving and Networked Services
• KNAW Humanities Cluster/Digital Infrastructure
• Europeana Foundation
• The Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History, University of Luxembourg
• National Library of the Netherlands
• Rijksmuseum
• Cyprus University of Technology – UNESCO Chair for Digital Cultural Heritage
• DARIAH – The Pan-European Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities
• The Smithsonian Institution 
   

About the funding instrument

The Open Science NL Open Science Infrastructure programme focuses on the development of digital infrastructures that support open science practices. The projects that are awarded funding make scholarly data, software and publications more accessible, and help make science open, transparent and inclusive.