Digital Preservation Coalition

The Digital Preservation Coalition and the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland invite you to join them at a workshop to explore the preservation of 3d laser scan data.

Current best practice guidance for the long term preservation of 3D laser scan data, in particular the required metadata is found to be onerous by data creators. This workshop will bring together leading practitioners from the archaeological community, alongside leading data archivists and software suppliers in the UK and Ireland to work towards agreeing a new metadata standard to facilitate preservation.

This event will allow for communication between archivists, creators and purveyors of software and hardware for laser scanning, as well as equipment manufacturere.  The aim is to ensure that the export of metadata is much simpler and more convenient for users.

Who should come?

We want to ensure that we bring together knowledgeable and engaged practitioners at this event to inform our ambitions of a new standard. We’d very much like to benefit from your experience in this area and hope that you and your colleagues can make it.

This meeting will be of interest to:

• Records managers and information officers in organisation that rely on long-lived 3d data gathered in the field
• Risk managers, executives and chief information officers in architecture, engineering and heritage management
• Collections managers, librarians, curators and archivists in all institutions charged with managing complex research data
• Tools developers and policy makers in digital preservation and 3d modelling
• Innovators and researchers in field recording and computer visualisation
• Vendors and providers of services for 3d modelling, digital preservation and heritage management
• Innovators, vendors and commentators on 3d modelling, computer visualisation and digital preservation
• Analysts seeking to develop tools and approaches for managing and exploiting complex 3d models

How to register?

This event will be free of charge but numbers will be strictly limited to 30 places and made available on a first-come, first served basis. DPC members will have a period of priority registration.

Fully Booked

Indicative Programme

0915 Registration Opens
0945-1000 Welcome and Intro from the Digital Preservation Coalition
1000-1030 ‘3D laser scanning from field to archive – current practices’, James Hepher (Historic Scotland Scottish 10 Project)
1030-1100 ‘Acquisition, application and archive – the use (and re-use) of survey data within English Heritage’ Paul Bryan (English Heritage)
1100-1130 Coffee Break
1130-1200 ‘Documenting and Archiving 3D data: Metadata and Standards’, Catherine Hardman & Kieran Niven (Archaeology Data Service, University of York)
1200-1300 Panel of morning Speakers for Questions leading into Facilitated Discussion chaired by Emily Nimmo
1300-1400 Lunch
1400-1430 'Point Clouds at Bentley Systems and the ASTM E57 Standards,' Faraz Ravi (Pointools)
1430-1500 Title TBC, Charlie Whyman (3d Laser Mapping Ltd)
1500-1530 ‘Leica Geosystems High Definition Survey’, Steven Ramsey (Leica Geosystems Ltd)
1530-1600 Panel of afternoon Speakers for Questions leading into Facilitated Discussion by James Hepher identifying areas of commonality and working towards developing a minimum meta data standard
1600 Summary and closing remarks identifying next steps, Paul Bryan (English Heritage)
by 1630 Close

Interested but unable to come?

We'll publish the slides afterwards, will publish an informal report from the event and you can follow the event live on twitter using the hashtag #dpc-rcahms