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Loughborough Design School
The aim of the DAR project is to convert the knowledge generated through a recently completed PhD project into a commercial Advisory Service for museums around the world. Specific objectives are to document a series of existing DAR case studies, to create a website to publicise the expertise gained through these and to develop a software tool (using Microsoft Access) to aid in the selection of suitable digital technologies. These will also form the main deliverables of the project, together with a Business Plan for future commercial exploitation of the DAR knowledge. The case studies involved 3D scanning of numerous archaeological artefacts, geometrical data manipulation and the production of repair items and replicas through 3D printing and other digital manufacturing techniques. The work will happen mainly in China through close collaboration with the Forbidden City and Summer Palace Museums.
This project will require a 50% FTE researcher working over a 12 month period to develop the tools necessary to support a commercial DAR Advisory Service capability. A large part of the commercial potential of such a service lies in exploiting the "know-how" that has been generated during the PhD project. The unique offering from Loughborough will be to advise on which digital technologies should be applied to a wide range of archaeological artefacts to achieve the most time and cost effective restoration solutions.