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