It's been a while since I added anything to this blog but I read an email from Tony Byrne at the Real Story (CMS Watch to you and me) and felt compelled to quote something in his newsletter. I am not saying I agree but he is a highly respected industry analyst...

'The product formerly known as RedDot is losing altitude at a precipitous rate. Alterian is discontinuing its .NET-based offering (the former Immediacy product).'

We have seen a disappointing response to RedDot but I have no knowledge of the discontinuation of Immediacy. Tony does comment in the same newsletter about the vibrancy of other players in the same space including our favourite EPiServer.

There are some clever people out there and then there are the exceptional. Imagine being able to digitally document all of our built heritage, our cultural and historical landmarks, the architectural wonders of the world that we live in so that forever more these places can be visited even though the physical bricks & mortar may have long since succumbed to the ravages of time or the physical visitor is unable to make the trip.

This is exactly the purpose of a pioneering conservation project currently underway to create virtual models of 10 World Heritage sites. Scottish 10 is a £1.3 million project funded by the Scottish Government and being carried out by The Centre for Digital Documentation and Visualisation LLP (CDDV) which sees a strategic collaboration between Historic Scotland and The Digital Design Studio (DDS) at Glasgow School of Art.

The Scots team are currently onsite at Mount Rushmore in South Dakota which is the first international site to be scanned. The project comprises five Scottish sites at New Lanark, The Antonine Wall, St Kilda, Heart of Neolithic Orkney, and the Old and New towns of Edinburgh plus five international sites. Beyond Mount Rushmore the other international sites are likely to include China, India, Japan and one other yet to be confirmed.

Check this BBC new article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/8651175.stm

But where does Mimtech fit into all of this? Well, other than being incredibly excited about the opportunities, knowledge and absolute joy that a project of this magnitude and public interest will generate and other than a healthy borderline fetish for the technology involved we’re also very proud to have won the contract to build the website to support the project. The richness of data and content that CDDV generate as part of each on site scan means that we have a myriad of media to play with including flash, video, 3D point cloud data, mapping and social media technologies as well as some spectacular on site imagery. We’re excited about this project, can you tell?