RETOLD Stories
By documenting your museum inventory, such as buildings and the craft activities practised at your museum, for use in the RETOLD system, you create a lot of digital material that you can also use outside of the RETOLD platform. In this section, you can find inspiration and guidance on how to make the most of the material you are creating - both as documentation and best-practice archive, and as a way of keeping audiences engaging with your museum’s digital presence.
Using Digital Material
So much you can do, once your material has gone digital!
What is your story? The digitals you have may include texts, photos, videos, 3D models, audio, and 360-degree visuals. Once in good order, a lot of new possibilities open for you. What stories do you like to present? What is the perspective you want to highlight today? And for whom? You will find some samples here from the RETOLD case study. What can you do with your digitized material?
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Sharing the 3D Models
Your buildings as 3D models, now what?
3D models of your buildings are a great visualisation. You can engage your audience via by including those on your website. A technical question is if would you include them straight into your web server, or would you host them elsewhere and then embed them on your website? It is about reaching audience, but more than that. Here we offer some backgrounds to these issues... Read more
Integrating 3D Media
What did Steinzeitpark Dithmarschen want to achieve?
They created quite some good 3D media for a good reason: to reach their audience where many of them are: online. The ultimate goal is to attract these online visitors to actually visit the park for real. The online experience can be more immersive with help of the newly created material. Before planning on adding 3D models to their website or social media, the director of Steinzeitpark and the volunteer webmaster identified the challenges that had to be solved during the process.... Read more
Future Directions
RETOLD does not stop here!
RETOLD monitors the latest developments in going digital for museums. On the other hand, we also check out the changing wishes and requirements of museum professionals. Important is, how we can link and present our stories, not only between RETOLD partners, but also elsewhere. There are platforms like Europeana, but your data needs to be able to “talk” with those. The European Cloud is coming soon, too. Technique does not stand still, and neither does RETOLD... Read more