Open Access for Museum Collections and Research
summary
Museums run a conscious open‑access push that digitizes tens of thousands of objects to enable research and public viewing while avoiding handling damage; core problems are massive data management, rapidly changing tech, and fragmented strategy. Examples: a Roman diorama figure, a 16th‑century astrolabe and automaton are 3D scanned and published on portals such as the Bavon collaboration using BabylonJS viewer and Google Model Viewer, and small runs like a 1920s glass toy survive in about 10 surviving pieces and are released as open‑access publications.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction and speaker background
- 1:04Digital transformation in museums
- 2:08Opportunities of digitization
- 3:33Challenges in museum digitization
- 5:23Dutes Museum digital initiative
- 6:043D digitization examples
- 9:44Open access portal collaboration
- 10:49Museum's open science policy
- 12:37Future key issues for museums
- 14:01Call to action and resources
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