Geology/Earth Science ETD's with rock collections
Tirzah Islip
Hello,
This is a rather broad question with further scope than just the ETD area, but something I’ve been thinking about as I’ve been working with our Geology department as part of The University of Adelaide’s project to retrospectively digitise their theses.
Has anyone had any experience or have contacts / information that could point me in the direction of how possible it would be to make a physical rock collection accessible online? Some theses have a rock collection included and they are housed with all the other rock collections in cupboards and drawers of the Geology department. Much of this still has a lot of research and historical relevance and would benefit from being made more widely accessible.
Any information would be helpful!
Thanks, Tirzah Islip
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Tirzah Islip
Digitisation Assistant – Retro Thesis Project
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Barr Smith Library
The University of Adelaide, SOUTH AUSTRALIA 5005
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Rhonda Marker
Hi Tirzah,
The question is how to represent multi-dimensional images. We have a similar scenario with our collection of Roman Republican coins, in which relief details can’t always be represented by a single still image. We could have gone with a video solution, but thought that we could provide better resolution by scanning still images at multiple angles, including obverse, reverse, and edge. (We created our angled cradles using a 3D printer.) http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7282/T3TX3CB1 However, this proved to be prohibitively labor-intensive (=costly), and now we scan only obverse and reverse. http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7282/T3F191DP We are watching the development of Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI), in which both the object and camera are stationary and a controlled light source is moved to selected positions to capture multiple relief images. http://culturalheritageimaging.org/Technologies/RTI/ This requires the user to download the RTIViewer. Right now, that would be an annoyance to most of our users, but if this kind of technology is more widely adopted, I can see Internet browsers incorporating something like this (as they now do for PDF).
Rhonda
Rhonda J. Marker
Director of Shared User Services
Rutgers University Libraries
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
p: 848-932-5923
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