Shaping the World of 3D: Towards a roadmap for increased reusability of 3D cultural heritage datasets

On 29 June 2023, DANS organised the workshop ‘Shaping the World of 3D’ to bring together the community of those working with 3D research data in cultural heritage and/or archaeology in the Netherlands and Flanders. The aim was to establish a roadmap for best practices for management of 3D datasets in these fields to ensure their reuse and long-term preservation. This document summarises the presentations and discussions and presents a preliminary roadmap. The content varies from, for example, the strong recommendation for an internationally accepted common metadata standard to more practical recommendations for preferred file formats. We hope that the workshop and this resulting report can form a basis for a Community of Practice to further refine, but especially to realise, the identified tasks.