3D geospatial data platform company Cesium has partnered with the Smithsonian Institution on its Open Access Initiative to make potentially hundreds of thousands of 3D images shareable with the public.

The Open Access Initiative aims to release nearly 3 million of the Institution’s 2D and 3D images, along with public collections metadata and institutional research data sets that are under a Creative Commons license. The Center City-based company’s 3D Tiles technology will make huge, detailed images of historic figures, such as the Space Shuttle Discovery, shareable and viewable on any device.

“The Smithsonian Open Access Initiative aligns perfectly with Cesium’s vision to make the world’s collection of data more useful and accessible,” said Cesium CEO Patrick Cozzi in a statement. “We are proud that our technology will give researchers, educators, and the public the ability to study 3D models in the Smithsonian’s collection in the highest resolution detail from anywhere in the world.”

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