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Kate Fernie
Operations ManagerCARAREUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, GB
Kate’s background is in Archaeology and Museums with experience of digital libraries, digital preservation and the online cultural heritage. She is currently operations manager for the CARARE Association. Kate has been involved projects developing content for Europeana (CARARE, Europeana Archaeology, Share3D, LoCloud and 3D-ICONS); developing best practices and capacity building (4CH, ARIADNEplus, Tech4Heritage); and technologies for curators, researchers and users (PATHs and LoCloud). Kate led the Europeana Network Association’s 3D content task force and is interested in how 3D technology is bringing new opportunities for the cultural heritage sector to provide access to heritage.
Earlier this year, the Hunt Museum published a case study which shared insights from their experience digitising items from their collections in 3D. Read on to hear about their experience and learn how objects digitised in 3D can form an important part of engagement strategies.
In this post, Kate Fernie and Dimitris Gavrilis tell us about Share3D, a Europeana Generic Services project which uses 3D as a driver to encourage people to explore and re-use cultural heritage content.
The advent of 3D technology is bringing new opportunities for the cultural heritage sector, offering innovative ways to provide access to heritage for education, tourism, research and enjoyment. A Europeana Network Association task force on 3D content has been exploring the topic of 3D in Europeana, and in this post, task force leader Kate Fernie shares the results of the year long project and the recent task force report.