Session 2: Virtual Gallery: Digitising Movable Cultural Heritage Participation Workshop

This will allow for participation in the live stream workshops for the day. Please note that participation will be broadcast and recorded.

Artefacts lie at the heart of museums, they provide gateways to imagine how people lived in the past, to the stories and lives associated with the object. Yet at the best of times an artefact can only be in one place and at the worst we are locked out from that place. Digitisation offers the potential for representations of artefacts to be accessed from anywhere in the world and act as a stimulus for imagination and education.

4.00pm: How to make a virtual gallery

There are many ways to make a digital gallery. A collection of photographs with text, videos with audio or collections of 3D models. In this workshop we will explore how to make virtual galleries. We will look at the equipment, software and workflows that can be used. We will also look at how galleries can be used and shared with audiences.

5.00 pm: Showcase of digital galleries

We will look at examples of digital galleries and how they have been used. We will talk with practitioners about what their galleries are about and discuss experience in promoting engagement with heritage through digital galleries.

During this workshop we will make use of www.cupidoeu.org to show how to upload digital artefacts and create galleries.

We will also look at the Sketchfab social archive platform, which is also a good place to create a gallery.

Check out this digital archive of Iron Age artefacts from the Strath of Kildonan. https://www.cineg.org/galleries/digitalArtefactscollection.php?id=490#collectionObjects

Digital Heritage Workshops: Bringing Museums to the Home

Digital Heritage Workshops: Bringing Museums to the Home is a new programme of digital heritage skills workshops commencing on 28th May 2020 and running to 23rd June 2020, free to access and available to all.

In response to the impact of Covid-19, *CUPIDO European Interreg cultural heritage project has collaborated with XpoNorth Heritage to hold a programme of eight online digital skills workshops aimed at the Heritage sector and facilitated by Dr Alan Miller and Catherine Anne Cassidy, from the Open Virtual Worlds Group at the University of St Andrews. The workshops are designed to help heritage organisations develop the skills to connect with existing and potential new audiences through digital media, covering topics such as digitising collections, photogrammetry, working with phones and commodity cameras to create 360 degree images and videos.

The impact of COVID-19 on the heritage sector has been huge with museums and visitor centres closed and potential visitors confined to their homes. At the same time there has been a flourishing of online heritage interactions, often through social media and accessible via devices available in the home.

This series of workshops aims to facilitate the sharing of skills and resources, whilst helping to equip heritage professional and volunteers in working with heritage online.

*CUPIDO

CUPIDO (Culture power: to inspire development in rural areas) Interreg North Sea Region cultural project is a cultural heritage project. Its overarching aim is about developing new business opportunities in the cultural and cultural heritage sector. This is to reinforce the economic position, competitiveness and social inclusion of local rural communities. CUPIDO is cultural activities such as art, dance, music and cultural heritage. The project has 16 partners from 7 countries and runs from 2019 to 2021.

Through CUPIDO, Highlands and Islands Enterprise has partnered with University of St Andrews to work with communities and social enterprises across the region on a programme of transnational digital activities designed to help commercialise the culture sector. More information about the CUPIDO project can be found here https://northsearegion.eu/cupido/about/ and www.cupidoeu.org

Inspired by the #museumathome, #cultureathome and #heritageathome this series of workshops will help and support heritage volunteers, professionals and organisations connect audiences with both cultural and natural heritage. The workshops are free and open to all. You can book a “seat at the table” through eventbright or watch broadcasts from social media.

A Facebook group called “Heritage Studio” will provide access to resources, opportunity for discussion and links to recording of past workshops. Feel free to join the group at:

www.facebook.com/groups/heritagestudio/

The CUPIDO archive and virtual museum system will provide a place to put things you create in the workshops and help connect it with the workshop activities.

www.cupidoeu.org

The Open Virtual Worlds group is an interdisciplinary group based in the Interaction Lab, School of Computer Science in St Andrews University. If you would like to find out more about the group you can visit our Facebook page

https://www.facebook.com/OpenVirtualWorlds/ or drop us an email: admin@openvirtulaworlds.org

Over the years we collaborated with the Timespan Museum and Archive in many projects (https://timespan.org.uk/) and are pleased Timespan will be contributing their expertise to these workshops. The workshops will also feature work from across the Highlands and Islands including the Tahai Chearsabhagh Museum, Highlanders Museum, Shetland Museum and North Isles Landscape Partnership.