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Maritime Archaeological Society established an ambitious research program of creating a 3D ontology of all historic shipwrecks in the Baltic Sea. Within few years MAS volunteers gathered the world's largest collection of "digital twins" of shipwrecks, sparking lot of subsequent academic research.

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The focus and balance of the presentation will be adjusted with the panel leaders to align with alike presentations. The presentation must of course present the context (underwater cultural heritage), actors (MAS, universities, Heritage Agency) and the program's (Baltic Sea 3D Wrecksite Ontology) strategy and operations, but thereafter the balance between the substance and process to deliver it could shift towards the latter, discussing how it was achieved and what where the ciritical components thereto. Finally the presentation would live upto it's title and describe the international accreditation and awards it has reached, as well as the subsequent research projects and co-operation with Global palyers like UNESCO and University of East Carolina. If timing allows, we could describe in short how it all even affected the Finland's ratification of UN frame agreement for the protection of underwater cultural heritage.