Dave Sanderson (Auckland War Memorial Museum) - Collection imaging: From public spaces to factories
Channel: NDF - National Digital Forum
Date: 2016-12-07

Collection imaging: From public spaces to factories
Dave Sanderson (Auckland War Memorial Museum)

1:30 – 2:00pm Tuesday 22 November, Angus

This session will discuss the journey so far of Auckland Museum's Collection Imaging project. The project was the first of the museum's Collections Readiness projects and drove the conversion of public gallery spaces into a new purpose built Collection Hub – home to four separate collections workstreams including cataloguing and imaging.
The museum has developed a new purpose built studio designed as a blend between traditional heritage imaging techniques, commercial photography and the mass digitisation projects in the US. Whilst avoiding conveyor belts and production lines, the project still seeks to conduct imaging of heritage collections using production line techniques and factory thinking.

The talk will deliver an insight into the journey and a peek into the thinking that's brought the project this far.

Dave is the Project Leader - Collection Imaging at Auckland War Memorial Museum. He's a career imaging professional, having started commercial photography in 2000. After entering the GLAM sector at Archives New Zealand in 2010 he's worked on many varied projects including UNESCO Memory of the World documents and the largest on-shore digitisation project in New Zealand. Dave has a particular focus on open access, digital archiving and preservation, and the use of technologies and systems thinking to push forward digitisation within the GLAM sector.