Virtual Volunteering: The DTH Archaeology Museum Video Project 2020-2021 by Kavi Mistry
May 17, 2021
This year the Digital Transformations Hub has been collaborating with the University’s Museum on two student volunteer projects. One is to produce 3D digital versions of a selection of the Museum’s artefacts the other to produce information and marketing videos. You can find a report on the photogrammetry project here, this week second-year Ancient History student …
DTH Presents: an intensive QGIS workshop
April 29, 2021
With the help of LatinNow and Pieter Houten, the Faculty of Arts Digital Transformations Hub is hosting a free online course on mapping using the open-source Geoinformation System QGIS, which will run from the 6th of May through the 4th of June. The course will have weekly hour-long group meetings on Teams with the participants …
Digital Exhibitions: a round-up by Emily Grote
March 26, 2021
DTH Marketing project volunteer and third year English student Emily Grote takes a closer look at some of the online Arts exhibitions that she and the team have been sharing with our social media followers and which might help get us all away from those box sets! With all the galleries and museums currently shut …
DTH Directors Update: Spring 2021
March 16, 2021
Spring term has started remote from campus for many of our volunteers, but despite the circumstances, everyone’s getting stuck in with their projects. DTH Manager Matt Davies and the project leads have worked hard to make sure that all our projects can still go ahead even under these challenging conditions. The photogrammetry team are working …
3D digitisation: the University of Nottingham Museum photogrammetry project
March 2, 2021
Photogrammetry is a method of creating a digital 3D version of an object (or space) by capturing multiple overlapping photographs of it from every angle then running the photos through software to produce a 3D version. The artefact used in these illustrations is: Roman Face pot from Margidunum, Bingham, Nottinghamshire, University of Nottingham Museum collection. …
Virtual Volunteering: The DTH Marketing project 2020-21 by Ciara Murphy
January 29, 2021
In today’s blog DTH volunteer Ciara Murphy, a second-year Classical Civilisation student, shares some of the challenges and successes of virtual volunteering for the DTH. Each year the DTH takes on a group of around 20 students from the faculty of arts, to volunteer in the Hub and to work on exciting, real world projects. …
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