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2019 SI Digitization Conference Recap

By Jessica Warner on Fri, 12/06/2019 - 10:48

Since the Smithsonian Institution's Digitization Program Office (DPO) itself was born ten years ago, our office has hosted the biennial Smithsonian Digitization Conference (having now matured into

East Asian Coins in 3D

By Hillery York, National Museum of American History on Mon, 08/26/2019 - 11:04

In the Fall of 2018, the Smithsonian's National Numismatic Collection (NNC) and the Digitization Program Office (DPO) partnered on an innovative digitization pilot project aimed to enhance the numi

Smithsonian 3D Metadata Model

By DPO on Thu, 11/01/2018 - 11:33

As 3D digitization becomes more common in collections documentation, there is a growing demand for tools to address the specific needs of 3D data stewardship. Central to this is the identification and creation of metadata models to describe these digital surrogates.