E-Curator: 3D colour scans for remote object identification and assessment

E-Curator：用于远程对象识别和评估的 3D 彩色扫描

• 批准号: AH/E006485/1
• 负责人: Sally MacDonald
• 金额: $ 18.49万
• 依托单位: University College London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2007 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FE006485%2F1
• 关键词: Curator; 3D; colour; scans; remote

This project draws on UCL's expertise both in curatorship and in e-Science. It takes advantage of the presence at UCL of world class collections across a range of disciplines and of a state of the art colour scanner, the quality of which is unequalled in Europe.Curators, conservators and other cultural heritage specialists traditionally describe and share information about objects using a combination of photographs and text; the illustrated catalogue and the annotated condition report being the standard record formats.3D colour scanning offers the potential to revolutionise such records. 3D colour scans can record the whole object, in the round, in great detail. The latest 3D colour scanners can record a level and texture of surface detail and colour fidelity not previously possible. There are many potential ways in which such scans could be used. They could aid identification, for example enabling the reading of hitherto illegible inscriptions on degraded surfaces. They could enable curators in different institutions to compare closely ostensibly similar artefacts without travelling to see them. They could assist in the monitoring of decay and environmental damage over time, both within a museum or gallery or more critically when objects travel, for instance in touring exhibitions. At a time when museums are being urged to enter into more international partnerships, to engage with different cultural perspectives, and to loan their collections more freely such developments could alleviate some of the practical barriers to the movement of people and objects, enhancing international scholarship and facilitating the safe movement of artefacts.For 3D colour scans to be of practical use, however, robust means of sharing and validating the data obtained need to be established. High resolution 3D colour scans of one object require hundreds of megabytes of storage space, and can only realistically be shared using the distributed file systems being widely deployed in the e-Science environment. Use of e-Science security toolkits will also be necessary to protect the integrity and authenticity of object scans, and the confidentiality of scans that are not being made available to the public. The E-Curator project aims to apply e-Science technologies to museum work and artefact analysis, exploring the potential to capture and share, in a secure and traceable manner, very large, detailed datasets about museum artefacts. Six artefacts have been selected for study in this project. They represent a range of disciplines (art, archaeology, anthropology) and present a range of issues in recording surface details. They will be scanned using a state of the art Arius3D colour scanner, of a type unique in the UK, to create detailed object 'fingerprints'. The scans will be stored at UCL and federated with partner sites. They will be evaluated at several stages by curators and conservators on and off site. Formative and summative workshops will be held in order to establish details of procedure and test user interfaces. A Steering Group consisting of curators, conservators, laser scanning, metrology and e-Science experts will guide the project. Two research assistants, one a computer scientist, the other a conservator, will be employed on the project and a project studentship will investigate the potential of 3D scanning and e-Science based data sharing for the museum community.

这个项目利用了伦敦大学学院在管理和电子科学方面的专业知识。它利用了伦敦大学学院一系列学科的世界级藏品和最先进的彩色扫描仪的存在，其质量在欧洲是无与伦比的。策展人、文物保护者和其他文化遗产专家传统上使用照片和文本相结合的方式来描述和分享有关物品的信息；图解目录和带注释的状况报告是标准的记录格式。3D彩色扫描提供了彻底改变此类记录的潜力。3D彩色扫描可以全方位、非常详细地记录整个物体。最新的3D彩色扫描仪可以记录表面细节和颜色保真度的水平和纹理，这是以前无法实现的。有许多潜在的方法可以使用这种扫描。它们可以帮助识别，例如，能够阅读退化表面上迄今难以辨认的铭文。它们可以使不同机构的策展人无需前去观看，就能对表面上相似的文物进行近距离比较。它们可以帮助监测随着时间的推移对腐烂和环境破坏的监测，无论是在博物馆或画廊内，还是更关键的是当物品移动时，例如在巡回展览中。在博物馆被敦促建立更多的国际伙伴关系，与不同的文化视角接触，并更自由地借阅其藏品的时候，这种发展可以缓解人员和物品流动的一些实际障碍，提高国际学术水平，促进艺术品的安全流动。然而，为了使3D彩色扫描具有实际用途，需要建立强大的手段来共享和验证所获得的数据。一个物体的高分辨率3D彩色扫描需要数百兆字节的存储空间，并且只有使用在e-Science环境中广泛部署的分布式文件系统才能现实地共享。还必须使用e-Science安全工具包，以保护物体扫描的完整性和真实性，并保护未向公众提供的扫描的机密性。电子馆长项目旨在将电子科学技术应用于博物馆工作和文物分析，探索以安全和可追踪的方式捕获和分享关于博物馆文物的非常大的、详细的数据集的潜力。在这个项目中选择了六件文物进行研究。它们代表了一系列学科(艺术、考古学、人类学)，并在记录表面细节方面提出了一系列问题。他们将使用最先进的Arius3D彩色扫描仪进行扫描，这种扫描仪在英国是独一无二的，可以生成详细的物体指纹。扫描将存储在UCL，并与合作伙伴网站联合。现场内外的馆长和文物保护人员将分几个阶段对它们进行评估。将举办形成性和总结性讲习班，以确定程序细节和测试用户界面。一个由馆长、保管员、激光扫描、计量和电子科学专家组成的指导小组将指导该项目。两名研究助理，一名计算机科学家，另一名管理员，将受雇于该项目，一个项目学生将调查基于3D扫描和e-Science的博物馆社区数据共享的潜力。