Introducing Abigail Spanner and the Hunter Archaeological Society Project
January 11, 2024
As the new Research Associate at the Digital Transformations Hub, I thought I should introduce myself. My name is Abigail Spanner, and I am a Classics PhD student in my second year studying visuality and visual impairments in Quintus Smyrnaeus’ Posthomerica, a 3rd-century AD epic poem which bridges the narrative gap between the Iliad and …
The DTH & University of Nottingham Museum Photogrammetry project update: new 3D models!
July 28, 2022
This week the DTH are very excited to launch four new digital 3D models of artefacts belonging to the University of Nottingham Museum’s collection. The 3D models were created as part of an ongoing partnership between the DTH and the Museum, with whom another DTH student volunteer team have also been working on a video. …
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 …
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. …
A Year in the DTH Marketing Project by Maria Benedetto Mozo
July 23, 2020
Over the past year I have volunteered at the Digital Transformation Hub (DTH) on the Digital Marketing project. We are a small group of undergraduate students who run the DTH’s social media and promote the Hub’s resources. Shifts are two hours every week and can be chosen to fit your timetable – so there is …
DTH Spotlight: Digital Marketing Team
February 5, 2020
Who are we and what do we do? We are a team of undergraduate Arts student volunteers promoting the resources and uses of the DTH. We mainly manage the DTH’s social media. This includes sourcing images, creating engaging content and updating the university community on our projects. We also contribute to Digital Dialogues, the DTH’s …
DTH Spotlight: The Archaeology Slide Collection Digitisation Project
November 27, 2019
What is in the collection? The Archaeology Department Slide Collection contains over 15,000 35mm slides. The slides include large numbers of images of archaeological sites, objects and plans covering local, regional and national subjects that were used for teaching purposes. However, within this general collection there are more important slides which form a visual record of …
DTH Director’s Update: Autumn 2019
November 21, 2019
The start of term for 2019 has flown by, and I’m writing this welcome to the semester rather later than I meant to be—but my tardiness doesn’t reflect the swift start the DTH has had. We’ve had a lovely intake of student volunteers this year, including some returning faces, and in the first weeks of …
The Hennessy Digitisation Project by Emily Parker
June 13, 2019
This week DTH Student Volunteer and History undergraduate Emily Parker tells us about her experiences working on our Hennessy Digitisation project. This project will be running again 2019 – 20, along with several new projects. If you are a Faculty of Arts student at the University of Nottingham and would like to find out more …
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