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...
Jun 30, 2019 | Archives, Collection Management, Digitise, News
Our Wellington team have been digitising another collection of Field books for LINZ with a selection from The Antarctic. This collection is dated from 1957 – 1976 and include some wonderful surprises our team have discovered whilst digitising. The black and white...
May 1, 2019 | Collection Management, Digitise, Planning, Resources
Considering the handling, packaging, storing and transportation of cultural heritage materials during the digitisation process is an important aspect of preserving the integrity and condition of your collections. These considerations will be discussed throughout this...
