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| Author: | tai_pinc [ Mon Jul 01, 2013 6:58 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Usage of 3D Scanning in Museums and Archives |
Hello, I would like to know, from your experience in this field, do you know of any Museums or Archives who operates a 3D scanning devision or unit, that works on bringing their entire collection into a 3D files archive? Something like what the Smithsonian is doing: http://www.engadget.com/2013/05/14/smithsonian-3d-scan/ Thanks Tai Pinchevsky tai.shabtai@gmail.com |
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| Author: | virtumake [ Tue Jul 02, 2013 9:36 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Usage of 3D Scanning in Museums and Archives |
Hi! I got in touch with a museum in Lower-Austria, to offer them a 3D-Scanning service for Sculptures and Statues. They seemed not to have any experience with 3D scanning systems. A museum in my hometown was not interested, because they had concerns about the copyright. What is your experience? |
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| Author: | awerby [ Sat Jul 13, 2013 8:38 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Usage of 3D Scanning in Museums and Archives |
I think this is all quite new to most museums, and while it's clearly an idea whose time has come, they don't really know what to think about it yet. Copyright is only an issue for relatively recent works of art. Anything over 100 years old (or so, depending on when the original artist died), not to mention fossils or other natural objects, has no copyright protection. But that doesn't mean that a museum might not want to maintain exclusive control over the distribution of any data that would enable reproductions to be made from items in their collections. This may be opening up, slowly. I haven't seen any major collections freely sharing STL files of their collections yet, although some, like the Smithsonian, have launched into ambitious scanning projects. But in the hope that they might find this a potential source of revenue, I've started a site where those with collections of scans can offer them for sale: 3Dscanhub.com I just launched it recently, seeded with scans I've made myself of fossils, natural objects, antiques, sculptures and people (or parts of them), but the idea is to invite other individuals and institutions to offer their 3Dscans for sale, and hopefully create a market for stock scans. If anyone here has high-quality scans which they're authorized to distribute that they'd like to try selling, please get in touch. Andrew Werby www.3dscanhub.com |
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