Current technological developments offer an inexhaustible number of procedures for digitization. However, technological equipment intended for teams in professional laboratories reaches price levels that cultural institutions often do not have enough finances. Procedures and methods using equipment, which institutions often already own or are not so expensive to acquire, come to the fore. One of them is the RTI (Reflectance Transformation Imaging) method, which creates a spatial relief composed of a sequence of images with visible lighting. The RTI method is very successful in depicting illegible or wiped details and is already widely used in archaeology.
The Jewish Museum in Prague, one of the oldest public Judaic collections since 1906, has opened the new permanent exhibition Jews in the Bohemian Lands, 19th-20th Centuries in the Spanish Synagogue. After a year and half-long reconstruction, the exhibition features the Jewish history in the Bohemian lands, with the help of priceless original objects as well as the use of digital technology. The exhibition has been awarded the Gloria Musaealis 2020 Special Prize in the Museum Project category.
One of the challenges that museums often face is how to present their ‚treasures‘ in a form that is both comprehensive and relevant to today‘s audiences. Digital content alone is not enough in this context and 3D content is increasingly gaining importance. One of the most accessible and at the same time most effective 3D digitisation methods is photogrammetry. The result, if procedures are followed correctly, is not only high-quality content with a wide range of uses, but also potential stepping stones for effective business models. This can reduce acquisition costs quite significantly and make 3D digitisation accessible to a wider range of institutions.
The aim of the article is to present the possibilities of the digitization of 3D objects using both professional and publicly accessible methods. The article also aims to focus on selected tools of 3D digitization and their possible use in the memory institutions, such as museum, libraries and archives.
The study focuses on the set of folk costume buttons from the preserved part of the Waldes Museum collection. The aim of the paper is to present the button set and its ongoing research potentional, both in the further study of the collection itself and in comparison to other similar objects in the Czech Republic and abroad. The study includes the results of the long-term research of the Waldes Museum button subcollection that is provided with an institutional support of Museum of Glass and Jewellery Jablonec nad Nisou.
RTI metoda jako způsob digitalizace kulturního dědictví
