Extended Matrix Development Projects
Active and planned development projects for the EM formal language, framework, and tooling ecosystem.
Active and planned development projects for the EM formal language, framework, and tooling ecosystem.
Extended Matrix (Language) — Nodes and node variants formalizing virtual reconstruction. Expandable through new node types. Currently expressed in yEd/GraphML; s3Dgraphy provides a richer property graph underneath. s3Dgraphy JSON config files encode the formal rules and are part of the core language.
Extended Matrix Framework — Tools ecosystem: EMtools (Blender add-on), s3Dgraphy (Python library), 3D Survey Collection (3DSC, photogrammetry & 3D model preparation), Heriverse (online viewer), Tapestry (AI-based proxy rendering), external standalone tools, connectors. Separation of responsibilities enables parallel development.
Governance Cycle — EM advances every 6 months. A Component is a new node or a tool using/expanding existing nodes. A Development Project impacts one or more Components. Each DP requires a Key Study with open data.
Proposal (with Key Study) → Development → Community Review → Candidate for EM Version → Inclusion
Several Development Projects are funded or developed within StratiGraph, a European project supporting the creation of a collaborative infrastructure for stratigraphic heritage documentation. DPs tagged with StratiGraph were created or advanced as part of this initiative. Use the StratiGraph filter to isolate them.
Documentation • EMtools repo • s3Dgraphy repo • s3Dgraphy on PyPI • 3DSC repo • StratiGraph project