Nov 11, 2019 | Acetate, Archives, Audio, Case Studies, Collection Management, Digitise, Gallery, Museums, Planning, Resources, Vinegar Syndrome
Much of the world’s valuable cultural heritage is audio-visual material and it is a race against time to protect and preserve it. Historic audio-visual content is in danger of being lost because it is frequently stored on formats destined to degrade, its access...
Sep 18, 2019 | Archives, Case Studies, Digitise, Equipment, Gallery, Libraries, Museums
Phase One medium format digital cameras produce images with unequalled quality and provide a solution for the accurate digitisation of cultural heritage artefacts. They are the camera of choice for NZMS and are often utilised for large format projects that require...
Jul 22, 2019 | Case Studies, Collection Management, Digitise, Leigh Rout, Museums
New technologies in digitisation are paving the way for more accurate and visually descriptive preservation of cultural heritage collections. Of these new technologies, NZMS is embracing structured light 3D scanning to capture objects 3-dimensionally, delivering...
Jul 15, 2019 | Archives, Case Studies, Collection Management, Digitise, Libraries, Planning
Museum Theatre Gallery Hawke’s Bay (MTG) houses a vast collection and archive spanning across textiles, taonga, art, newspapers, and photographs. During MTG’s collection management hazard identification project, the Collection Coordinator, Sara Perrett, and Collection...
Jul 8, 2019 | Archives, Case Studies, Digitise, Museums
Our digitisation team in Wellington have recently completed a project digitising a large collection of Glass Plate Negatives for Whanganui Collegiate School Museum and Archives. Glass Plate Negatives Glass Plate Negatives predate sheet and roll film, and during the...
Nov 12, 2018 | Alison Barnett, Audio, Case Studies, Digitise
First-hand accounts of our WW2 veterans are a very precious part of Aotearoa New Zealand’s national history, especially as time passes. Martyn Thompson spent hours interviewing approximately 80 veterans (including 5 women), creating over 79 audio cassettes as part of...
