K2  Communications  Cultural  Heritage

A fundamental role of a museum is to care for it’s collection and preserve it for future generations.
The need for digitization is growing, with increasing focus on public access, research and preservation of information for the future.

Common cultural heritage collections include:
• Flat Materials
• Rare books & bound material
• Transparent material and film scanning                             
• 3D Objects,

CULTURAL HERITAGE SERVICES
We provide:
Photography of; artworks, documents, artifacts, books, photographs, slides, negatives up to 4X5,
larger sizes on request.

Images are captured with a Phase One XF 100mp camera system and Capture One, Cultural Heritage software. You will receive on a hard drive or USB, the original RAW files, plus TIFF, and JPG in various sizes depending on your requirements.

Transparent  Material :  Film  &  Slides

Vintage glass plate negatives, medium and large format negatives, transparencies, including 35mm mounted slides, microfilm and all other transparent material.

Rare  Books  &  Bound  Material

A large part of the Cultural Heritage community works on digitization of rare and delicate bound materials, such as books.
Digitization of books often requires special attention to fragile bindings, and will determine how the material can be treated in the digitization process.

Flat  materials

Documents, drawings, maps, manuscripts, photos, small paintings, newspapers, musical scores, letters, post cards, and other flat objects in all sizes and shapes.

3D and  Large  2D  Objects

3D and larger flat objects such as sculptures, pottery, silverware and paintings, are often captured from a tripod in the photo studio or in the gallery and exhibition halls. Lighting is often selected to suit the object’s character and the curator’s goals in representing the object.

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See   Some   Examples

We use Image Science Associates, Golden Thread Object-Level Targets, These targets are designed to fit discreetly alongside objects being digitized without adding significant image data and is intended to enable image digitization quality control and workflow monitoring. They remain with the archive image file but are automatically removed.