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ANNONCEMENT: 3/4 September Workshop 'Life cycle of a digital object. Hands-on experience from laser scanning to visualization and 3D printing.' Methodological Worshop at UCL with the support of JISC/AHeSSC. For more information contact m.hess (at) ucl.ac.uk and go the conference website.

NEWS: E-Curator team publishes article in Ariadne online magazine for information professionals in archives, libraries and museums in all sectors (Issue 60/ July 2009): E-Curator: A 3D web-based Archive for Conservators and Curators.

NEWS: 3D laser scanning at UCL and its uses will be introduced as part of the talk: "10-227: Leaders By Design: Engineering Design as a Tool for Developing Leadership Skills" by Marco Federighi and Anna Clark at the ICED'09 at Stanford university.

Introduction

The E-Curator research project "3D colour scans for remote object identification and assessment" is a one-year project currently underway at UCL Museums and Collections. This project draws on UCL's expertise both in curatorship and in e-Science. It takes advantage of the presence at UCL of world class collections across a range of disciplines and of a state of the art colour scanner, the quality of which is unequalled in the UK. The project explores the use of 3D colour scanning and e-Science technologies to capture and share very large 3D colour scans and detailed datasets about museum artefacts in a secure computing environment. The combination of these technologies could assist curators and conservators in object identification and assessment, both locally and remotely.

The E-Curator project is jointly funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), the Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre (AHESSC), the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC).

For further information write to e-curator(at)ucl.ac.uk.

Updated June 9, 2009.


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