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CMS-2017-008

Digital Heritage and the Idaho Virtualization Lab: What Is It, What Does It Mean, and Why Do It?

Robert Schlader

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Abstract

The Idaho Museum of Natural History is a repository of many and varied objects. Like all museums, it is impossible to display everything in the collections. Many items are fragile, many are culturally sensitive and space in the gallery is limited. Digitizing objects allows for not only online presentation, but for unlimited access for research, replication, restoration, and many others. In this paper I will describe the technology we use, the process we follow, and a short history of our facility and the projects we have completed.

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Robert Schlader. Idaho Virtualization Lab, Idaho Museum of Natural History, Idaho State University. Presented at the Coordinate Metrology Systems Conference 2017, Snowbird, Utah, July 17-21, 2017. Coordinate Metrology Society, reference CMS-2017-008.