This course is designed to help anyone on their 3D digitisation journey. It is specifically aimed at Cultural Heritage professionals who are considering, or in the middle of, digitising their cultural heritage collections using three dimensional models.
This course is based on the 3D Digitisation Guidelines produced in the context of the EUreka3D project, a supporting project of the common European data space for cultural heritage.
This course can help with three basic contexts:
By the end of this training you will be able to:
The Guidelines outline and simplify the recommended standards highlighted in the EU VIGIE Study 2020/654. This study on quality in 3D digitisation of tangible cultural heritage was published in April 2022 and written in response to the EU recommendation (EU 2021/1970 on a common European data space for cultural heritage, published November 2021) for Member States to digitise all moments and sites at risk in 3D by 2030.
Before you take the course, you are warmly invited to download both documents and keep them for reference:
To complete this course you will need:
Valentina is a project manager for the participation of Photoconsortium association and its members in EU projects. In this role they contributed to the project EUreka3D. She is also responsible for the technical support and helpdesk to content providers concerning the ingestion and metadata enrichment for photographic datasets. And she coordinates content for enrichment and curation tasks on the Europeana thematic collection of early photography.
Antonalla is the vice president of Photoconsortium association, an ICT expert and the Director of Design at Promoter SRL. She has been working on European collaborative projects since the 1990s. Since 2002, she has been Technical Coordinator and Communication Manager of national and European projects in the domains of digital cultural heritage, creativity and co-creation, citizen science, smart cities, digital preservation and eInfrastructures. She regularly serves as an independent expert and evaluator for the European Commission. She is a founding member of IDEA - International Digital Epigraphy Association, and Enterprise Fellow at Coventry University.
John Balean is Operations Manager of TopFoto and member of the Photoconsortium Steering Committee. He graduated from the University of Newcastle, Australia in 1996 with a Bachelor of Arts in the Visual Arts and a major in Photography. After a brief period as a freelance photographer and visual artist he joined TopFoto where he is a highly experienced Operations Manager and his role includes coordinating EU / Europeana projects as well as negotiating for new photographer collections. John has given lectures and written about the picture industry with a specific interest in Press Photographic History. He is currently Chair of PICSEL and previously served 10 years as a board member of both BAPLA and CEPIC.
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