Digital Humanities in a scientific museum context: the case of KMKG-MRAH Hendrik Hameeuw & Chris Vastenhoud Friday 27 November Towards DARIAH-BE: a kick-off meeting with the launch of the Digital Humanities Research Community Flanders @CinquantenaireM @HameeuwH
The four main parts of the KMKG-MRAH: the Cinquantenaire Museum, Musical Instruments Museum, Museums of the Far East and Halle Gate.
Areas of Expertise Visualisation Research & Development Metadata management Public Digital valorization and preservation of archives Preservation and conservation
Visualisation Multi-spectral Imaging Multi-light Imaging Photo Lab & Photo Archive 3D Modelling (SfM)
Research & Development Conservation, IR, UV and 3D-Imaging Combining interactive multispectral images with 3D datasets. (contact: h.hameeuw@kmkg-mrah.be) Multi-spectral Imaging with MS Microdome
Research & Development Recent publications on studies using the imaging results of the PLD by KMKG-MRAH staff: A. Goddeeris, H. Hameeuw 2014: Een trans-atlantische hereniging, Interactieve opnames reconstrueren een Oud-Babylonische erfenisoorkonde, in: Phoenix 59/2, 67-78. V. Boschloos, H. Hameeuw, E. Van Quickelberghe 2014: Scarabaei Chananaei Lovanienses: Middle Bronze Age Hyksos Seal-Amulets in the University Museums of Leuven and Louvainla-Neuve (Belgium), in: Res Antiquae XI, 1-8. V. Boschloos, A. Devillers, E. Gubel, H. Hameeuw, C. Jean, L. Van Goethem, S. Van Overmeire, B. Overlaet: The ancient Near Eastern glyptic collections of the RMAH reconsidered, in: Bulletin des Musées royaux d'art et d'histoire 83, 23-43. H. Hameeuw, S. Van Overmeire 2014: The Seleucid bullae from Uruk in the Royal Museums of Art and History, in Mesopotamia 49, 113-142. H. Hameeuw 2015: Mesopotamian Clay Cones in the ancient Near East Collections of the Royal Museums of Art and History, Bulletin des Musées royaux d'art et d'histoire 84, 5-48. H. Hameeuw, E. Gorris, J. Tavernier 2015: Written on Mud : Some more Brick Inscriptions from Mesopotamia, in Akkadica 136, 89-101. A. Van der Perre, H. Hameeuw 2015: La création d'images multi-spectrales: les portraits romains du Fayoum, in: Delvaux L., I. Therasse, Sarcophages. Sous les étoiles de Nout, 164-165. V. Van der Stede 2015: Une statuette d orant des Musées Royaux d Art et d Histoire de Bruxelles, in: Bulletin des Musées royaux d'art et d'histoire 84, 49-56.
Research & Development Drone images for archaeological excavations (b.overlaet@kmkg-mrah.be)
Research & Development 3D registration for safeguarding and demo 3D registration of rock art discovered in the Egyptian Desert in 2014, online, open source
Metadata management KMKG - MRAH are the leader of WP4, indexing and multilingual support, which envisions the enrichment of local cataloguing metadata by adding structured information to source metadata records. Terminology Management Platform, Linked Open Data. Collecting and linking vocabularies and creating thesauri conform ISO-standards, and aligning them with exchange formats (Semantic Web). e.coudyzer@kmkg-mrah.be
Metadata management KMKG - MRAH are the leader of WP4, indexing and multilingual support, which envisions the enrichment of local cataloguing metadata by adding structured information to source metadata records. Integrating museum and library catalogues, tuning domain specific metadata standards. (w.claes@kmkg-mrah.be)
Metadata management Museum online database PDF document with multiple enhancements Incorporated.u3d model Direct link with online library database
Public Museum online database PDF document with multiple enhancements Incorporated.u3d model Direct link with online library database
Digital valorization and preservation of archives Research Archive: ICA-ATOM Digitalisation of the archaeological archives and dissemination of data via www.bareo.be and a database. (contact: v.vanderstede@mrah.be)
Preservation and conservation National Archaeology Collections Inventory Project (NACIP) Identification and classification in (material related) custom made database to enable daily management ( merge to Museum+ / Carmentis) (contact: a.depoorter@kmkg-mrah.be)
Preservation and conservation Restauration labs - Ceramics i.rosati@kmkg-mrah.be - Metals r.garcia@kmkg-mrah.be - Photographs c.quairiaux@kmkg-mrah.be - Paper b.rigoli@kmkg-mrah.be - Wood d.wendelen@kmkg-mrah.be - Paint b.vanschoute@kmkg-mrah.be