Walkthrough

Once you have a building set up in the RETOLD documentation system, you can add information to the building by conducting a so-called walkthrough. Important to note, is that you can take a number of walkthroughs over time and compare these (overlay), or just select a single of them to be presented. 

Open Walkthrough for Maintenance

You can place marks on 3D model of the building. These marks can contain information, like text, video or images. The images or video you either add from the device’s camera roll, by producing footage live, or from the devices file storage system. You add marks while live documenting and can edit these to add extra information. You perform the walkthrough in steps, as indicated by the progress bar at the top of the page. This ensures that observation and documentation follows a common pattern, so that results can be compared within the museum, and with research from other museums. The category corresponds to where you are in the current walkthrough. You can for example define a condition type to indicate damage. 

For example, if your maintenance staff have the model on their tablet, they can walk through the building and make notes on it about repairs needed, and compare these with previous notes. It gets interesting when they then take that tablet to the museum director, discussing and planning priorities, and then the director takes this to the museum board or authorities: the ones making decisions about larger investments.

Open Walkthrough for Visitors

Further to this, what if we take that 3D model and use it to reach out to our visitors? We must meet the public where they are, and that is not necessarily right here in the museum. Simply said, we can add information to all corners of the 3D house model, and then share that wherever. We can tell dozens of different stories linked to one single house. You can include different kinds of information or stories at the same place in a 3D model, depending on the purpose, for example by using different languages. 

These digital stories are like any other story you would share, just in a different format and setting. The public will not follow a digital guided tour from A to Z. The visitor should be able to choose what they like to view, and in what order. Therefore, you need to edit your information into several very short stories, small video clips in and around the house in your museum. For these you make scripts, the you stage and film them followed by editing. Finally, you pin the videos onto the 3D model.