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by Emilie Walsh
For the second year in a row, Research Platform services is running Data Storytelling event for researchers across disciples. This will be an interactive team-based event, where you will learn with other researchers a range of skills to turn your research and your data into good storytelling material! How often do you need to turn a bunch of data into something coherent that you can communicate about? Or you need good visual communication material to promote and explain your work?Participants will be mentored in groups and supported in answering self-guided research questions with new digital methods, from data collection to visualisation.This will take place in the new digital studio in Arts West, a great collaborative space for researchers keen to up-skill in the digital tools!
Vincent
and I will be running the Digital Archives of 3D
objects stream. This is for anyone interested in working with objects based
data sets : from art historians to zoologists, from dentistry to
conservation researchers !
What’s @thevinniek scanning? Curious about #3Dscanning & digital archive of 3D objects? https://t.co/bGtOVl7Fqb @ResPlat @unimelb #datstory pic.twitter.com/Sy3Fa2owMQ
— Emilie Walsh (@emilouwalsh)
16 June 2017
For as long as researchers have been working with artefacts, bones, or any kind of three-dimensional objects, they have found the need to document their data: from anatomy drawings, to photographs, there is always a need to keep a visual trace of your research material. Some objects are just too fragile to be handled too often, or can’t be moved across institutions to be available for other researchers to work with them.
Digitising your object based data set can now be a
good solution to archive your research, communicate about it, and share it with
others.
For
our 2-day workshop we have partnered with the Grainger Museum to work on some of their collection. They have shares
with us some of their most fascinating artefact, for us to 3D scan them, tinker
your 3D model, and archive them online!I went to the Grainger’s storage to help select and pick
up these treasures:
Selecting objects from the @GraingerMuseum collection! Come to #datstory to learn #3Dscanning and online exhibition https://t.co/bGtOVl7Fqb pic.twitter.com/z3VdqrUw5x
— Emilie Walsh (@emilouwalsh)
22 June 2017
In our stream you will not only get the opportunity to
use the university 3D scanners, but also learn how to use a range of digital
tools to modify it, rescale it, play around with the lighting, and then export
it to be displayed online, or even get a facsimile 3D printed!
How cool would it be to have a 3D model printed to communicate about your work, bring to a lecture or a presentation? There is a lot of interest recently around Objet-Based learning, and how we remember better when we get to experience, touch, feel and get a real sense of scale, texture and so on.
Our Research Platform team have worked in the past to scan and print a replica of a roman coin, for archaeology students to get a better idea of it than with a photo!
Annelies Van de Ven has also been scanning and printing her cyrus cylinder for communication purposes!
Learn to do the same at our workshop!
Hurry up and register today!
With a new season comes a new trio of talented Research Community Coordinators. Research Platforms are excited to announce the arrival of Tyne Daile Sumner, Pablo Franco, and Kahli Flekac to the ResBaz team.
Fresh from a medley of introductions, inductions, and integrations, the three new team members are ready to start engaging their respective communities and supporting their chosen digital tools.
Tyne will be supporting Omeka, which is a free, flexible, and open source web-publishing platform for the display of library, museum, archives, and scholarly collections and exhibitions. Tyne is a PhD candidate in English Literature, currently completing a thesis on the relationship between twentieth-century American poetry and surveillance. Tyne’s also currently at work developing a professional public speaking course for undergraduate students at the University of Melbourne. For more information about Omeka trainings, contact Tyne at tsumner@student.unimelb.edu.au or follow her on Twitter @tynedaile
Kahli will be supporting Python, an open-source programming language accessible for both beginner- and professional-programmers. Python contains many different packages and functions which make it ideal for a large range of research purposes. Kahli is just about to finish studying her Master of Science in Bioinformatics, with a particular focus on text mining and using networks to model cellular interactions. For more information about upcoming Python trainings, please contact her on kflekac.resplat@gmail.com, or follow her on Twitter @kflekac.
Pablo will be supporting R, an (also) open-source programming language that is especially powerful for data exploration, visualization, and statistical analysis. Pablo just began his PhD at Melbourne University on Decision, Risk and Financial sciences. However, (as he will so emphatically tell you) his research is on Decision Neuroscience. He advocates for a highly interdisciplinary approach to his research questions and in this way he justifies his eclectic background. He is more than eager to discuss his research at any moment, so don’t hesitate to contact him on pablo.franco.dn@gmail.com if you would like to discuss his research. Of course, contact him as well for more information related to the R community and upcoming workshops.
Come by and say hello to the new dynamic trio, who is already taking an active part of the ResBaz Community. You will see them rummaging around our new CoLab space on Level 3 of the ERC Building (University of Melbourne, Parkville), at workshops, events and, of course, at our famous Hacky Hour (every Thursday, 3-4pm, Tsubu Bar).
Do not fear. Contact them right away with any comments or questions. They do not bite (we think…) and they will be more than happy to hear from you!