Captured by GDH in November 2024 with roughly 60 laser scans and 5,500 photographs, the dataset reveals the incredible sculptural details of this monument. Developed with the Petra Development & Tourism Region Authority, Jordan’s Department of Antiquities, and The American Center of Research.| Global Digital Heritage
GDH starts 2025 with a new project in Italy. We have started a brand new collaboration with the Museo Archeologico e d’Arte della Maremma in Grosseto, province of Siena. A team of six GDH members has worked for a week at the museum to scan archaeological artifacts from the ancient city of Rusellae, near Grosseto.| Global Digital Heritage
In the past months GDH has started a digitization project with the Museo de America in Madrid, Spain. We have now digitized around 200 objects from different cultures in America both precolumbine and from the colonial era. The most impressive part of the project has been the digitization of 83 ceremonial pieces made of gold […]| Global Digital Heritage
I have some interest in photogrammetry, and, more concretely, in the ways to extract 3D information from a set of photographies of an object. There is excellent open source software that is able to do this, like Meshroom, which is based on the Alice Vision framework. Once you create a 3D object with this tool, … Continue reading "A MeshLab plugin to find optimal oriented bounding boxes"| Alfonso Sánchez-Beato's blog
This past week, I ran another digital and practical epigraphy workshop with Dr Gabriel Bodard and Dr Irene Vagionakis. There was one big difference between this workshop and the one we ran back in 2019: this time, we decided to run the workshop in hybrid format, to allow for both in-person and remote participation. To... Continue Reading →| Katherine McDonald