Sally MacDonald Yean-Hoon Ong Mona Hess Francesca Millar E-Curator 3D colour scans for remote object...
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Sally MacDonaldYean-Hoon OngMona HessFrancesca Millar
E-Curator
3D colour scans for remote object identification and assessment
Dr Ian BrownDr Graeme WereDr Stuart Robson
UCL Context
• 3 Museums open to the public, 10 departmental collections
• Half a million objects and specimens
• First Arius3D Foundation Scanner in Europe providing state of the art colour artefact scanning
• Interdisciplinary expertise
Research issues
• Need for curators, conservators etc to have physical access to objects for
• object identification/ comparison
• condition monitoring, within institutions and for touring exhibitions
• Limitations of the catalogue entry and the conservation report
Project Aims
• Develop a traceable methodology for recording surface detail and colour quality of range of object types and materials
• Explore potential for producing validated datasets to allow closer and more scientific examination of groups of objects, their manufacture and issues of wear and deterioration
• Examine how resulting datasets could be transmitted, shared and compared
• Begin to build expertise in use and transmission of 3D scan data as a curatorial tool
3D Colour Laser Scanning
Red, Green and
Blue Lasers
Lens
Mirror
• 6 pilot object from UCL Museums and Collections to form the core study
• Scanning with the Arius 3D Foundation Model 150 colour scanner, accuracy 0.25mm, point spacing 100 x 100 microns, geometric and colour information (XYZ RGB)
3D Colour Laser ScanningScan results of the Petrie Quartzite UC55606. Minute surface features become visible through the 3D scan.
• Workshops for Curators and Conservators: Opportunity for Museum specialists to be involved in the project and produce a detailed specification for the user interface and review criteria
Dissemination – Formative Workshops, International Conferences, E-curator Website
E-Curator Application (Technology)
• Web-based application• Server side:
– Storage Resource Broker (SRB), Java Server Pages (JSP), servlets, Jargon
• Client side:– Javascript, AJAX
E-Curator Application (Interface)
• Embed 3D scan images within web pages
• 3DImagePlayer: an ActiveX control from Arius3D
• Tools are available for users to tumble, pan, zoom and rotate the 3D images and to alter lighting conditions and colour display
E-Curator Application (Interface)
• Metadata provides information about artefact
• The GUI facilitates viewing, comparing and analysing museums artefacts
AHRC Studentship: PhD Anthropology Department
The networked technology of the digital image
• Ethnographic research will explore the production, visualisation, circulation and consumption of the image within the framing of the museum
• Different stakeholders mediate the image; technician, conservator, curator, source community and museum public
• Transforming museum practice and the museum space
Issues of concern for the museum framing
• The digital image reforms ideas on aura, authority, authorship and reality
• In praxis it mediates different sensuous engagements, material knowledge and attachments
• Brings into context issues on the rights to the image, copyright, repatriation and management of knowledge