Revitalizing & Enhancing
the Open Source 3D WebGIS
of MayaArch3D

MayaArch3D Whitepaper

In archaeology, and more broadly cultural heritage, we tend to develop digital tools for specific projects with limited potential for customization and extensibility. This needs to change. We must develop software and infrastructure that is generalizable, well documented, and easier to maintain to facilitate cross-disciplinary scholarship in the Humanities.

It is under these circumstances that the Phase I goal of "Revitalizing and Enhancing the open source 3D WebGIS of the MayaArch3D Project" was to evaluate the 3D WebGIS software components in order to develop a plan to bring the system back online in a more extensible, better documented, more accessible, and easier to maintain form.

Our findings are available in the "Revitalizing and Enhancing the Open Source 3D WebGIS of MayaArch3D White Paper" (NEH Digital Humanities Advancement Grant, Level 1).