One of the major concerns of projects like this is innovative work grounding on serious and scientific questions, focussing mainly on content and a useful presentation thereof rather than merely on technology or commercial application. To stimulate the development and use of multimedia information content, it is not necessary to develop new tools, one has to make use of content resources and context.
Archaeology is one very useful field for such work.
On the basis of a concept of the German Museum of Architecture Frankfurt to visualise historic architectural ensembles with scale models, the first three dimensional interactive virtual computer animations were produced by the ZKM since 1992. There's a great need of new types of publishing both from the scientist and a wider audience. For the first time at an archaeological site, the Karlsruhe team started the complete documentation of excavation and analysis in Catalhoyuk in the central Anatolian highland in 1995. Catalhoyuk is a site of immense international significance, providing the first art of complex settled life. Some of the spectacular sculptures and paintings are 9000 years old.