{"id":23433,"date":"2020-03-30T19:32:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T19:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bgs.ac.uk\/?post_type=person&p=23433"},"modified":"2020-05-02T16:25:17","modified_gmt":"2020-05-02T16:25:17","slug":"howe-michael","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/www.bgs.ac.uk\/people\/howe-michael\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Michael Howe"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t\t
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I am particularly interested in promoting access to collections and information through digitisation and web delivery \u2013 an area in which the BGS is a world leader. We have delivered photographs via the web for many years \u2013 e.g. the National Building Stone Collection (4300 images) <\/a>. Use of the JP2 (JPEG 2000) format allows web access to high resolution images, and has been used for several collections including UK continental shelf hydrocarbon well core samples <\/a> (See for example <\/a>). It has also been used for the Historical maps of the Geological Survey of Great Britain and Ireland <\/a> and Magnetograms <\/a> . We have recently used it for high resolution fossil images, including stereo anaglyphs <\/a>, and high resolution images of petrological thin sections <\/a> (30 \u00b5 thick rock slices) \u2013 or search the database <\/a>. The ultimate form of specimen digitisation is the 3d digital model. The JISC funded GB\/3D fossil types on line project <\/a><\/em>has captured several thousand such models. For digitisation to make a difference, it needs a critical mass. The UK hydrocarbon core photographs total 125,000 and the rock thin sections represent 100,000 rocks.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t
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