3d Scanning
project: The Cairo Genizah manuscripts: Taylor-Schechter Old Series and the Mosseri Collection
Grant Holder: Dr Ben Outhwaite
The project aims to complete the cataloguing and detailed description of the Old Series of the Taylor-Schechter Cairo Genizah Collection and a substantial proportion of the Jacques Mosseri Genizah Collection. The T-S Collection consists of approx. 193,000 medieval (and early modern) Jewish manuscripts recovered from a storeroom (Genizah) in Old Cairo one hundred years ago, and is an unparalleled resource for the study of medieval Judaism, Islam and the history of the Mediterranean and Near East in the Middle Ages. The Old Series is the historical core of the Collection, and approx. [read more]
project: Breaking through rock art recording: three dimensional laser scanning of megalithic rock art
Grant Holder: Dr Margarita Diaz-Andreu
The project Breaking through rock art recording was led by Dr Diaz-Andreu(Durham University). It aims to test the novel technique of 3D laser scanning for the recording of prehistoric rock carvings. The main objectives were to assess the reliability, accuracy and precision of this technique for recording purposes and to evaluate its capacity to discover new carved motifs invisible to the naked eye. [read more]
project: E-Curator: 3D colour scans for remote object identification and assessment
Grant Holder: Ms Sally MacDonald
The E-Curator research project "3D colour scans for remote object identification and assessment" is a project at UCL Museums and Collections.
This project draws on UCL's expertise both in curatorship and in e-Science. It takes advantage of the presence at UCL of world class collections across a range of disciplines and of a state of the art colour scanner, the quality of which is unequalled in the UK. [read more]
