Learning Resource: Digitisation Methods for Material Culture

URL: https://culturedigitalskills.github.io/2024-3d-digitisation-methods/

This resource is an introduction to Digitisation Methods for Material Culture. The resource explores basic topics with regards to the study of material culture, while also looking at types of media as means to communicate and share information about it, as well as digitisation methods to capture material culture data.

Learning Outcomes

Be able to describe the difference between various media types, including images, videos and 3D models.
Have awareness of good practices for naming and adding basic metadata to visual media.
Have a broader context and understanding of alternative digitisation methods to capture and visualise material culture data.

Authors Karina Rodriguez Echavarria, Myrsini Samaroudi, Nicola Schiavottiello
Resource organisation Digital Skills in Visual and Material Culture, University of Brighton
Language English
Free keywords Material culture, cultural heritage, object biographies, media, digitisation, 3D digitisation
Version date July 8, 2024
License CC BY
Access cost No (there is not a fee)
Duration 02h
Prerequisite knowledge level Some awareness of basic principles about material culture, media and digitisation methods.
Targeted expertise level Intermediate
Certification Other
DOI https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12687073

This website has been produced and is managed by the coordinators of the DISKAH project at the University of Brighton. The ‘Digital Skills in Arts and Humanities (DISKAH): Transforming Access to Digital Infrastructure and Skills‘ project has been funded by UKRI (Grant No. APP4595). DISKAH builds on the previous projects of the Digital Skills Network in the Arts and Humanities, which received funding by the ​​​​​​AHRC under the ‘Embed digital skills in arts and humanities research scheme‘, aiming at addressing the digital skills gap within the arts and humanities research community.

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