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Für Informationen berühren Sie das CARNUNTUM 3D 
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Für Informationen berühren Sie das CARNUNTUM 3D 
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Picture 1: screenshot of the application "Carnuntum 3D" 
- The media are manipulated and combined by interactivity. 
- The information uses different types of coding (or media) - 
multicoding. 
- The media are combined according to their functions and 
content - combination of media. 
The term ’’media” stands for writings, pictures, sound, video, 
interactivity and movement. Like in the case of video, where 
the combination of picture and sound created a new media, we 
are thoroughly convinced that the independent combination of 
all media with topographic data creates a new integrative media 
- multimedia cartography. 
2.CARNUNTUM 3D - THE PROJECT 
2.1History of Pfaffenberg 
The project Carnuntum 3D started a few years ago, after having 
finished the documentation of epigraphs with small format 
cameras [CIPA 1999, Olinda, Brazil] for the museum 
Carnuntinum in cooperation with the Institute of 
Photogrammetry at the Technical University in Vienna. 
The district of temples, where the epigraphs came from, is 
situated between Hainburg and Bad Deutsch Altenburg, two 
small cities lying about 50 km east from Vienna, and was a part 
of the Roman town Carnuntum, one of the most important 
Roman cities at the Austrian limes. 
Starting in 1908 the mining of gravel gradually removed the 
ridge of Hundsheimer Berg, whose impressive appearance 
toward the town is called Pfaffenberg. 
In the year 1935 the result of excavations by Swoboda was that 
there was nothing important left on the top of the Pfaffenberg. 
In the 1970's this report was revised, the area was checked 
again and finally led to in an intense exploration of the 
sanctuary. 
In the mid 1980's all scientifically important parts had to be 
saved in deposits in Bad Deutsch Altenburg because the mining 
reached the district of temples. 
Picture2: screenshot of the application "Carnuntum 3D" 
Nowadays all the regional connections and impressions from 
and to the temple are destroyed. It is impossible to imagine the 
impressions of this district and its dominating landscape and to 
add it mentally to the still existing parts of old Carnuntum, like 
the theatres, the civil town or the canabae legionis. 
2.2Motivation 
The historical development of the past 100 years of the 
Pfaffenberg, the wish of the goverment of Lower Austria to 
visualise the landscape at the Reoman period and personal 
intensions were the motivation to start this cartographic project 
using the latest technologies of multimedia and 3D. This 
undertaking is still at its beginning. 
Especially digital technologies are thought to be able to deal 
with the developments in the work of archaeological science 
and to update new discoveries more cost effective. 
In addition the expanded presentation forms of the digital 
cartography - mainly the 3 rd dimension - are promissing better 
results for the geo-communication of the archaeological site and 
its adjacent regions. 
Nevertheless the developement of technology, the changing of 
standards and file formats call for a well considered 
programming technique on one hand and a more semantic 
exploration of a 3D application in cartography on the other. 
3.PROGRAMMING TECHNIQUES FOR A 3D 
CARTOGRAPHIC WEB VISUALISATION 
A cultural cartographic information system should be mainly 
accessible via the internet. The requirements restrict the usable 
programming standards and file formats for visualisation. 
Generally all available tools need a Plugin or a preinstalled 
runtime environment. 
In fact there are only two main standards that may be used: 
VRML and Shockwave3D. [Riedl et al. 2002] 
3.1VRML 
This open source virtual reality mark-up language was 
published 1995. It is standardised and runs on every computer