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Facilitating national cultural research into historically significant textile- based heritage artefacts through the application of high-end photogrammetry techniques to create a transformative digital collection

• f three-dimensional datasets.

Dr David Pyle and Dr Gavin Sade

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Project in a nutshell

Aims to:

• Identify creditable leaders and key stakeholders
• Devise technical and governance frameworks
• Establish content strategy and workflows
• Develop technical designs and specifications for a

mobile, flexible photogrammetry system

• Explore options for online access to digital artefacts

that accommodate technical, intellectual property and FAIR issues to ensure researchers

• Develop models and associated legal and

contractual instruments to enable institutional participation.

Mobile Photogrammetry Solution. QUT

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Key Issues

• Collecting institutions face challenges exhibiting and

preserving fragile collections such as organic and textile artefacts

• Highly susceptible to degradation through exposure to

UV, humidity, pests, chemicals and handling.

• Preservation practices control the amount of time items

are exposed to factors that cause degradation

• This limits access for researchers, students and the

public to significant collections

• Ability to produce high quality digital 3D

representations of artefacts is becoming more accessible, and will continue to improve, yet there is no national platform

Photogrammetry Samples. Reality Capture Interface. SketchFab

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Lessons Learnt

• Only a very small percentage of the national cultural

heritage collection is accessible at any given time.

• Most large collecting institutions in the country are

looking at this issue, have varying degrees of capability in photogrammetry, and some are working with partners with high-end capabilities.

• There is no current platform for archiving and exhibiting

3D scared cultural artefacts. The National Library of Australia’s platform, Trove, addresses a similar problem for 2D print documents.

• One of the challenges of working with 3D

representations created via 3D scanning is the size of the data sets. (Big Data)

National Library of Australia. Trove. Pedestal 3D gallery. Australian Museum.

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Acknowledgements

• Arts Centre Melbourne
• Australian Museum
• Australian National Maritime Museum
• Australian War Memorial
• DATA61 | CSIRO
• Melbourne Museum
• MONA
• Museum of Applied Arts and

Sciences (MAAS)

• Museum of Brisbane
• Museum of Contemporary Art
• Museum of Sydney
• National Gallery of Australia
• National Gallery of Victoria
• National Museum of Australia
• QAGOMA
• Queensland Museum
• Queensland Performing Arts Centre

Museum

• South Australia Museum
• TROVE - National Library of Australia

Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums (GLAM sector)

Stakeholders range from major national and state institutions to regional bodies and institutions. Initial survey includes…