University of Florida Digital Library Center

• Materials digitized are freely available online as part of the UF Digital Collections (UFDC)

• Established in 1999, it now has nearly 4 million pages and 152,376items online

• The collection includes books, photographs, negatives, slides, maps, herbarium specimens and objects

• Collection strengths are Children’s Literature, Maps, Aerial Photography,Newspapers, Florida Studies and Caribbean Studies

www.uflib.ufl.edu/ufdc

Digitizing Museum Objects for 360o Viewing

• Using a high resolution camera, shoot 108 images of object in full rotation

• Optimize images for quality

• Create derivative jpeg imagesof packages (via PreQC)

• Load derivative images to UFDC for assignable URLs

Digitizing Museum Objects for 360o Viewing

• Create screen size jpegs (~450 px) to import into Adobe ImageReady

• Import screen size jpegs into ImageReady and create animation

• Save and export animation as an .SWF file

• Import the .SWF file into the pre-made Harn 3D template using Adobe Flash

• Assign the unique URLs to each of the 108 images for each object

• Save .FLA files for archiving

• Load .SWF file to UFDC

• Archive all files

Web Presencewww.uflib.ufl.edu/ufdc/?s=artaf

Other Options

Google Maps

Citation / Museum Information

Utilizing the Digital Collection –The Benefits of Collaboration

University of Florida Digital Library Center

University of Florida Libraries UF Digital Collections

www.uflib.ufl.edu/ufdc