$12256 / $11500
I'd like to point members of this community to a similar site. ADL is a Department of Defense research lab with a mandate to increase the reuse of government owned assets, with the goal of reducing cost and increasing ROI for training activities. I run a small project we call "The ADL 3D Repository" that focuses on archiving and sharing 3D content.
Our site does a few interesting technical thing, including real time WebGL previews of 3D models, format conversions, and we expose an API for applications to connect to the database and consume models.
I encourage anyone interested in promoting themselves as providers of 3D assets for training to create a profile and upload a few pieces of content. You can even upload content but specify that no one can download it, and provide a link where users can contact you to arrange payment. We have several hundred research labs, contractors and academic organizations that will see your work and contact info.
I'd also like general feedback.
As a sort of free cookie to drive traffic, I'm offering a library of furniture I authored several years ago free on the site. Use the link below to find it.
http://3dr.adlnet.gov/Public/Results.aspx?ArtistName=Rob&Method=or
This website's content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
What license is the furniture made available under?
Are you going to upload it to OpenGameArt?
What relevance is this to open source / free software?
http://forum.freegamedev.net/
Charlie:
It seems that the furniture is CC-BY-SA. And it seems like there is some nice military stuff under creative commons licenses available there.
But what I'm especially interested in is the webgl preview of the models. It looks nice, and if it was free software, we could use it on OGA, too. Not sure about the license of the preview, though.
EDIT: Seems like the webgl preview is using different open source software such as o3d and OSGJS.
Good questions!
1) Currently they are listed under the "Attribution-Share Alike". I'll have to review it to make sure it's permissive enough. Basically, I'm cool with any use other than just reselling it.
2) Sure
3) Actually this is fairly relevant. We will be releasing the entire 3DR platform as open source software. Honestly I would love nothing more than to see other people use the software to share and reuse assets. I real win for our lab would be getting a community interested in open repository software, getting an academic or military research lab to maintain a copy, share content, and show some ROI. It's unfortunately common for different government enterprises to buy the exact same piece of art, when they should be checking some central location for content that is already owned or licensed by the gov't.
Please feel free to contact me directly as well,
Rob Chadwick
Robert.Chadwick.ctr@adlnet.gov
There are a couple of different open-source technologies involved in all this. I'd be happy to list them all and figure out the licensing. We don't rely on any commercial software other than ASP and IIS. Obviously people setting up instances will have to provide their own Server 2008.
If you're interested in pulling out the WebGL stuff, please shoot me an email and we'll see what's possible.