Your timing has worked out so well for me, thank you both so much for doing this. I'm currently working on my masters thesis about the ethics of 3D modeling in museums as digital conservation. I have two questions for you:
1: How do you decide what gets digitized? Any LAM organization of course has a vast amount to choose from, how do you decide where to start? Any material that gets preserved and added to a publicly accessible database has a much better chance of having a voice in academic research, so this has some long-term ethical implications.
2: What are your thoughts on multi-institution databases (ex: one website database for all LAMs in Boston)? This would have a huge benefit to users, but it can be difficult for some organizations to conceptualize having to compromise with a different group.
Thanks so much for your time!
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Your timing has worked out so well for me, thank you both so much for doing this. I'm currently working on my masters thesis about the ethics of 3D modeling in museums as digital conservation. I have two questions for you: 1: How do you decide what gets digitized? Any LAM organization of course has a vast amount to choose from, how do you decide where to start? Any material that gets preserved and added to a publicly accessible database has a much better chance of having a voice in academic research, so this has some long-term ethical implications. 2: What are your thoughts on multi-institution databases (ex: one website database for all LAMs in Boston)? This would have a huge benefit to users, but it can be difficult for some organizations to conceptualize having to compromise with a different group. Thanks so much for your time!
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