I've always wondered how the plasticky feel affected how people felt about 3D printed objects - great question!
My news is that the British Library deployed a new item viewer this week, based on the Universal Viewer project and IIIF standard. More at http://blogs.bl.uk/digital-scholarship/2016/12/new-viewer-digitised-collections-british-library.html
And my hot topic is sussing out standards for cataloguing manuscripts.
Cheers, Mia
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> On 8 Dec 2016, at 11:31, Timothy Savage <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> I’m quite interested to know if anyone has thoughts about the issue of 3D-printed models of museums objects feeling plasticky. The All Access conference at Pitt Rivers Museum was really useful and one thing that came up from it was 3D models aren’t always the best for touch tours, as they don’t convey the texture of an object.
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> As far as I know there aren’t any affordable/viable alternative printing materials yet and I feel like having fabric or something with a similar texture, as well as the 3D model would be a poor experience.
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> The other methods of conveying touch such as handling collections and swell paper are great. I’m thinking of other applications for the digital 3D models themselves and there was a good example of these being used to widen access of the Woodward Collection at the MA Conference but again, any ideas are welcome!
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> Thanks,
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> Tim Savage
> Market Town Museums Officer
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> Anyone got anything else to talk about?
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> Cheers, Jeremy
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> Jeremy Ottevanger
> Technical Manager
> Imperial War Museum
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