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I am not sure if Francesco intended to reply to the list, but he does raise the difficult issue of the affordability of RTI training -- a skill that is important for documenting, preserving, researching and making accessible cultural heritage -- yet the cost of its acquisition can be beyond many budgets these days.
Here at UCL we have tried to reduce the costs of our 4-day RTI training courses best we can, bearing in mind the costs of acquiring and maintaining our equipment and retaining our central London location as well as covering the preparation and other time costs of a qualified freelance trainer. We appreciate that £1200 (£1000 concession rate) is a good chunk of change, but this is not far off other technical trainings of this sort. Very few of our running costs are covered at the institutional level.
We would love to offer bursaries such as Francesco seeks, and would be interested in working with individuals and institutions who might like to assist us in applying for/raising funds to make this training accessible to their students, researchers as well as museum, library and archive professionals. Please send suggestions/leads to: [log in to unmask]
Note that from time to time Cultural Heritage Imaging offer bursaries for their excellent training courses in both RTI and Photogrammetry. I highly recommend! http://culturalheritageimaging.org/What_We_Offer/Training/
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culturalheritageimaging.org
Our training/consulting can come to your site! CHI experts can deliver a 4-day training class in RTI or photogrammetry (or both)—optionally with consulting services—at your institution for groups of up to 15 people.
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Best wishes - Kathryn Piquette
UCL Advanced Imaging Consultants
University College London
Foster Court
London
WC1E
6BT UK EU
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Web:http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dh/people/piquette,Enrollment is now open for our Reflectance Transformation Imaging training course running this summer at University College London. Under the umbrella of UCL Advanced Imaging Consultants (UCLAiC), this 4-day training event will be repeated on the following dates: 30 July - 2 August; 13-16 August and 3-6 September, all Monday to Thursday.
By attending this course you'll:
- learn how to apply highlight RTI
- become proficient in capture, processing and manipulation of RTI datasets for diverse applications
- become familiar with related computational photography and processing techniques for augmenting and re-using RTI data
- work on manuscripts and other artefacts from the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology and UCL Special Collections
Courses will take place at UCL in the Multi-Modal Digitisation Suite in Malet Place, London WC1E 6BT. Click the link for further details:
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/lifelearning/courses/reflectance-transformation-imaging-training
Dr Kathryn E. Piquette, ΦΒΚ
Senior Research Consultant in Specialist Imaging
UCL Centre for Digital Humanities and
UCL Advanced Imaging Consultants
University College London
Foster Court
LondonWC1E 6BT UK EU
Email: [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]
Web:http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dh/people/piquette,
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/dh/consulting/advanced-imaging-consultants
Sessional Lecturer, Department of Archaeology, University of Reading
Honorary Lecturer, UCL Institute of Archaeology
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