Jonas Bruschke

• Master of Science
• Research Associate at Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Dresden – University of Applied Sciences

In the context of source-based virtual reconstructions and its underlying decision-making processes (paradata), there has been a long-time demand for documenting why a reconstruction was executed in a certain way, and presenting it in a comprehensible and public manner. Lacking documentation leads to a loss of knowledge and that the scientific natu...

This poster deals with an idea for transparent digital documentation of humanities research, especially in historical maps. The aim is to document the exact reasons for the location (paradata) via a three-step process: source, argumentation, result, while also taking into account alternative variants and any uncertainties (geographical, temporal, c...

Numerous digital media repositories have been set up during recent decades, each containing plenty of data about historic cityscapes. In contrast, digital 3D reconstructions of no longer extant cityscapes have so far almost solely been performed for specific cases and via manual modelling techniques. Within the Jena4D research group, we are investi...

Virtual reconstructions have become widely established as communication and research tools in the context of architectural and urban studies. To make these reconstruction solutions more transparent and to allow for their assessment and recognition, it is of vital importance to document and evaluate the reconstruction processes. However, currently,...

Photographs and 3D reconstructions of buildings as well as textual information and documents play an important role in art history and architectural studies when it comes to investigating architecture, the construction history of buildings, and the impact these constructions had on a city. Advanced tools have the potential to enhance and support re...

This article looks at approaches, software solutions, standards, workflows, and quality criteria to create a multimodal dataset including images, textual information, and 3D models for a small urban area. The goal is to improve art historical research on architectural elements relying on the three data entities. A specific dataset with manually cre...

The ongoing digitization of historical photographs in archives allows investigating the quality, quantity, and distribution of these images. However, the exact interior and exterior camera orientations of these photographs are usually lost during the digitization process. The proposed method uses content-based image retrieval (CBIR) to filter exter...

Photographs and other images as well as textual information and documents serve as important source materials and provide a foundation for many subject-orientated and theory-based investiga-tions within historical studies e.g., architectural studies, art history, and cultural studies. The sources may be used for a (digital) reconstruction of a buil...

The study of architectural art history has greatly benefited from innovative, computer-aided approaches in recent years. From high resolution two-dimensional (2D) photos of building edifices, to three-dimensional (3D) models of entire structures, these emerging techniques are laying the foundation for new methodologies in researching architecture (...

Fotografien und andere Abbilder von Architektur dienen in vielen historischen Wissenschaften als Quelle und Grundlage für fach-und theoriespezifische Untersuchungen. So werden zum Beispiel historische Fotoaufnahmen herangezogen, um den Zustand eines Gebäudes zu rekonstruieren oder die Formensprache einer Epoche zu identifizieren. Ausgangspunkt dies...

Wie andere wissenschaftliche Disziplinen ist auch die landes- und regionalhistorische Forschung stark vom digitalen Wandel betroffen. Neuen Recherche- und Zugangsmöglichkeiten stehen veränderte Herausforderungen in der Ordnung und Systematisierung des Wissens gegenüber. Gewandelte Formen der Präsentation und der Verbreitung von Forschungsergebnisse...

We present methods to visualize characteristics in collections of historical photographs, especially focusing on the presentation of spatial position and orientation of photographs in relation to the buildings they depict. The developed methods were evaluated and compared in a user study focusing on their appropriateness to gain insight into specif...

The Kulturerbe4D project aims at making the diversity and change processes of architectural monuments in the urban context virtually visible and experienceable, especially for children and young people, but also for residents and tourists. A virtual city tour providing cultural and historical information is to be combined with the transfer of knowl...

From 2016 to 2021 the research group HistStadt4D investigated and developed methods and technologies to transfer extensive repositories of historical photographs and their contextual information into a 3D spatial model, with an additional temporal component. The aim was to make content accessible to researchers and the public, via a 4D browser and...

The Urban History 4D project investigates and develops approaches to repositories of images of the city of Dresden. Images and plans provide information on the appearance and architecture of the city as well as their development over time. Access to the information repositories relevant for both the general public and scientific research is usually...

Digitized historical photographs are invaluable sources and key items for scholars in Cultural Heritage (CH) research. Properties of photographic items, such as position and orientation of the camera, can be automatically estimated using Structure from Motion (SfM) algorithms to enable spatial queries on image repositories. Interactive spatial and...

Digitale Rekonstruktionen sind von zunehmender Bedeutung in den digitalen Geisteswissenschaften. Für Experten stellen sie unter anderem ein Forschungswerkzeug zur Gewinnung neuer Erkenntnisse dar. Gleichzeitig bieten die finalen Modelle eine gute Möglichkeit, die Forschungsergebnisse zu präsentieren. Experten als auch Laien sollen dabei unterscheid...

What would the world look like if we could access documents from the past as easily as present day‘s data? Could we use it to derive better forecasts for the future? Can historical 4D simulations improve our knowledge about European history? Which innovative business models will promote tourism, transport and planning? The Time Machine consortium c...

The interdisciplinary research group on four-dimensional research and communication of urban history (Urban History 4D) aims to investigate and develop methods and technologies to access extensive repositories of historical media and their contextual information in a spatial model, with an additional temporal component. This will make content acces...

p class="VARAbstract">This contribution shows the comparison, investigation, and implementation of different access strategies on multimodal data. The first part of the research is structured as a theoretical part opposing and explaining the terms of conventional access, virtual archival access, and virtual museums while additionally referencing re...

The research group on four-dimensional research and communication of urban history (HistStadt4D) investigates and develops methods and technologies to transfer extensive repositories of historical photographs and their contex-tual information into a three-dimensional spatial model, with an additional temporal component. This will make content acces...

This contribution shows ongoing interdisciplinary research of the project HistStadt4D, concerning the investigation and development of different multimodal access strategies on large image repositories. The first part of the presented research introduces different methods of access, where classical analogue access stands in contrast to digital acce...

Many institutions archive historical images of architecture in urban areas and make them available to scholars and the general public through online platforms. Users can explore these often huge repositories by faceted browsing or keyword-based searching. Metadata that enable these kinds of investigations, however, are often incomplete, imprecise,...

Historical imagery are an important basis for research in Digital Humanities (DH). Especially art and architectural historians rely on historical photographs that are provided by online media repositories. In general, querying those image repositories is based on metadata. Unfortunately, these are often incomplete, imprecise, or wrong, impeding the...

This contribution shows the work of the junior research group UrbanHistory4D within one year. It explains the different technical and educational approaches when working with media repositories composed of diverse historical data. The group covers technical aspects like photogrammetry, information sciences and Augmented Reality (AR) as well as huma...

Full text available as Open Access Publication via: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa2-334913. The 21.st Conference on Communities in New Media (GeNeMe) presents innovative technologies and processes for the organization, cooperation and communication in virtual communities and is a forum for professional exchange especially in the...

We aim to investigate and develop methods and technologies to transfer extensive repositories of historical media and their contextual information into a three-dimensional spatial model, with an additional temporal component. This will make content accessible to different target groups, researchers and the public, via a 4D browser. A locationdepend...

Historische Bilddokumente bilden eine wichtige Datenbasis für Forscher in den Digital Humanities (DH). Speziell Kunst- und Architekturhistoriker sind auf historische Fotografien angewiesen, die in Online-Medienrepositorien zur Verfügung gestellt werden. Die Suche nach diesen Bildern basiert im Allgemeinen auf Metadaten. Diese sind häufig unvollstän...

Due to the ongoing digitization, digital libraries are used more and more by art and architectural historians. Nevertheless, the design of those platforms does not necessarily meet the expectations and user requirements of the scholars. This is especially valid for digital libraries dedicated to historic media such as photography. In this article,...

Bauforschung hat sich seit den 1970er Jahren in Deutschland als unverzichtbarer Bestandteil der praktischen Denkmalpflege etabliert. Die durch sie bereitgestellten Möglichkeiten zur Dokumentation und Analyse von Bauwerken sowohl in technisch-konstruktiver wie auch historischer Sicht liefern wichtige Voraussetzungen für den behutsamen Umgang mit dem...

Bildrepositorien als Bewahrungsorte kulturellen Erbes stehen schon seit einigen Jahren im Fokus der Digitalisierungsbemühungen und werden im Zuge dessen konstant der Öffentlichkeit zugänglich gemacht. Damit eröffnen sich neue Möglichkeiten der Nutzung – aber ebenso Hürden, sowohl für ein spezifisches Fach- als auch ein interessiertes Laienpublikum....

The new research group on the four-dimensional research and communication of urban history (Urban History 4D) aims to investigate and develop methods and technologies to access extensive repositories of historical media and their contextual information in a spatial model, with an additional temporal component. This will make content accessible to d...

The research group on four-dimensional research and communication of urban history (HistStadt4D) aims to investigate and develop methods and technologies to transfer extensive repositories of historical media and their contextual information into a three-dimensional spatial model, with an additional temporal component. This will make content access...

Archives and museums store vast collections of historical images of urban areas and make them publicly available through online platforms. Many of these images, often containing historic buildings and landscapes, can be oriented spatially using automatic methods such as structure from motion (SfM). Providing spatially and temporally oriented images...

We propose a documentation tool for use in 3D reconstruction projects to support frequent tasks in digital reconstruction processes. Digital reconstruction is becoming ever more common in archaeology, architecture and other disciplines. Lost, but also present structures are being visualized to enhance the understanding of artifacts and point out hi...

Anhand stadt- und baugeschichtlicher Forschungsfragen und Vermittlungsanliegen zur Historie der Stadt Dresden untersucht die durch das BMBF ge-förderte eHumanities-Nachwuchsgruppe HistStadt4D seit 2016 methodische und techno-logische Ansätze, umfangreiche Repositorien historischer Medien und Kontextinformati-onen räumlich dreidimensional sowie zeit...

Digital reconstruction is becoming ever more common in archaeology, architecture and other disciplines. Lost, but also present structures are being visualized to enhance the understanding of a reconstructed object and point out historical and constructional relationships of the objects under consideration. Furthermore, the process of reconstruction...

In archaeology, like in many research fields, collected data reach enormous dimensions and cause more and more efforts to review and to interpret this amount of data and its relations. In this context, digital knowledge databases such as ontologies provide a good basis for the representation and organisation of this data and the related knowledge....