We are currently advertising a SEAHA PhD studentship opportunity: Large-Scale Metadata Enrichment of 3D Cultural Heritage Artefacts by Automatic and User-Based Metadata Acquisition Closing date: 28 November 2017
The pace at which digital assets for arts, heritage and archaeology are being acquired continues to accelerate in both the raw volume acquired and the variety of datatypes being recorded. Fraunhofer-IGD have recently developed new technology which automates the acquisition of 3D digital models of cultural artefacts, making it possible for museums and other cultural organisations to consider digitising their collections on a large scale. However, building large collections of 3D models, and other digital assets (such as text, images, video, manuscripts), brings with it new problems of documentation, search and presentation. Such processes can be supported by creating semantic metadata which link assets together and provide searchable representations of properties such as shape, texture or colour (for example). This project aims to develop scalable approaches to metadata acquisition (automatic or semi-automatic) which can be integrated into cultural heritage practice and/or web-based 3D-centered annotation tools to enhance the management, accessibility and experience of digitised cultural heritage. The key research questions to be addressed are: 1. What challenges does the advent of large scale 3d digitisation bring to the organisation and management of museum collections? 2. What new opportunities for scalable metadata acquisition arise from the availability of large scale digitised collections? 3. Can the provision of scalable acquisition tools have a significant impact on cultural heritage practice, workflows and standards in an age of large-scale digitisation? For more information, and how to apply, please visit the below link: https://www.brighton.ac.uk/research-and-enterprise/postgraduate-research-degrees/funding-opportunities-and-studentships/2017-large-scale-metadata-enrichment-of-3d-cultural-heritage-artefacts.aspx Corinna Hattersley-Mitchell PA to Professor David Anderson & Administrative Assistant to Cultural Informatics Research Group SEAHA Administrator for University of Brighton Tel: +44 (0)1273 641 617 Cultural Informatics website SEAHA CDT website Follow us @CultInformatics Please note that I am only in the office Monday to Thursday. For any urgent queries outside these days please contact John Clinton ([email protected]) Cultural Informatics Research Group University of Brighton Room 805, Cockcroft building Lewes Road Brighton BN2 4GJ UK ___________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by MessageLabs' Email Security System on behalf of the University of Brighton. For more information see: https://staff.brighton.ac.uk/is/computing/Pages/Email/spam.aspx ****** Unsubscribe by sending a message to [email protected] Searchable archives: http://cool.conservation-us.org/byform/mailing-lists/cdl/
