Daniel Pletinckx

From EpochWiki

Daniel Pletinckx
Affiliation:	Visual Dimension bvba
Email:	daniel.pletinckx@visualdimension.be
Phone:	+32 55 30 31 06
Homepage:	http://heritage.visualdimension.be/wie.html

Daniel Pletinckx was trained as a civil engineer, with specialization in information technology. He gained extensive experience in system design, quality assurance, digital image processing and synthesis, 3D and virtual reality through a career of 15 years in private industry. He is the author of several articles on computer graphics and cultural heritage presentation and has lectured extensively at major computer graphics and cultural heritage conferences. He organised many workshops concerning the use of ICT in cultural heritage and was Conference Chair of the international conferences VAST2004 (Brussels) and VSMM2005 (Ghent).

Daniel Pletinckx was chief consultant to the Ename 974 project, a major heritage project in the historical village of Ename, Belgium, and founded the international Ename Center for Public Archaeology and Heritage Presentation, together with Dirk Callebaut and Neil Silberman.

Daniel Pletinckx designed four TimeScopes in Ename, which received three international awards (Golden Scarab and Flemish Monument Award in 1998 for TimeScope1, the VGI ICT Award for best innovation in public outreach in cultural heritage for TimeScope3). He also designed, coordinated and realised the ICTbased presentation systems in the Ename museum and many other ICT based cultural heritage projects in Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany and Spain.

Currently, Daniel Pletinckx is director of Visual Dimension bvba, a SME dealing with consulting on and designing of new systems for cultural heritage and tourism. Visual Dimension consults major European heritage organisations on innovating and optimising the use of ICT technology in tangible and intangible cultural heritage and tourism. Visual Dimension also specialises in new, efficient ways to digitise existing cultural heritage objects and monuments, and in virtual reconstruction of historical buildings and landscapes.

Daniel Pletinckx is also co-founder of the European 6FP IST EPOCH Network of Excellence, that deals with optimising the use of ICT in Cultural Heritage, and acted from 2004 to 2008 as Coordinator for Integration Activities.