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Eton Myers Collection virtual museum + Sudan Archive Digitisation

JISC - Eton Myers

Thanks very much to Jonathan Calvert for pointing me at this site.

The Eton Myers Collection Virtual Museum will provide the centre piece of the University of Birmingham’s Virtual Worlds Laboratory (VWL), by providing virtual access to a database of high-resolution raw data and 3D models of artefacts via an unlimited Internet interface. The University of Birmingham Myers Collection originates from Eton College, and consists of approximately 3000 objects of ancient Egyptian art. Many of the items in the collection are of exceptional quality and of significant academic and display value but, due to their fragility, are sensitive to movement and deterioration. Until now, access to the collection for research and teaching purposes has been severely restricted.

JISC - Sudan Archive Digitisation Project

This project will digitise key printed and archive resources from Durham University's Sudan Archive to make them freely accessible via the internet to scholars all over the world. It will be a pilot to establish a preservation quality digitisation suite within Durham University's Archives and Special Collections.

The project will establish the hardware and the procudures needed by the University to carry out future digitisation of key materials. It will seek to solve the current problem of heavily-used, fragile, modern documents (which particularly occur in the Sudan Archive) by providing a sustainable preservation, digitisation and access systems. It will provide a demonstartion of the staffing needs for creating a permanent digitisation post. The various materials will provide new forms of content for our developing digital repository.

See the above pages for more, including links to related projects.

- Exhibition: Eton College Objects At Jhu
The JHU Gazette With photo. A renowned collection of Egyptian decorative art from Eton College in Windsor, England, has arrived at The Johns Hopkins University for long-term research and display in the university’s Archaeological Museum. Glazed blue...

- Home Via Eton College
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) The story of the retrieval of the items began in 2006, when the family of a London-based Egyptologist, the late Ron Davey, gifted his collection to the Myers Museum at Eton College along with an assemblage of photographs,...

- Clarification - Myers Museum Collection
REPOSTED FROM YESTERDAY Many thanks to Dr Nick Reeves for sending me the following clarification re the Myers Collection: Dear Andie May I provide you and your readers with an accurate statement concerning the return to Egypt of antiquities recently...

- The British Library's Electronic Theses Online Service
EthOS The aim of EThOS is: * To offer a 'single point of access' where researchers the world over can access ALL theses produced by UK Higher Education * To support Higher Education Institutions through the transition from print to e-theses...

- On The Return From Eton Of Trinkets
The Myers museum at Eton has done what is correct as would be expected from an institution of its standing The issue is not with the correct actions of the Myers museum or any other institution in doing what is right but rather laws which take trivial...

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