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Thomas Flynn
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🗿 Cultural Heritage | 3D | Open Access | Engagement 🏺

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📢Calling all *UK* heritage folks working with 3D data: I'd like to hear from you!

"UK 3D Heritage at Risk" project seeks to gather info from *at least* 50 organisations...

Links in thread.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZILD...
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#GLAM3D #UK #Heritage #3D #Data #Galleries #Libraries #Archives #Museums
UK Heritage 3D Data at Risk Project - Introduction
YouTube video by The Spatial Heritage Review
www.youtube.com
39 survey responses so far! 💪🎉 Can you help me get to a nice round 50?

If you, a colleague or connection work with cultural heritage #3D data in the #UK please share or complete this survey: forms.gle/Wn7mtVM5ZnzU...

#H3DAR #GLAM3D #museums #galleries #archives #libraries
February 11, 2026 at 9:09 AM
The form was getting spammed so I've taken it offline, please DM me if you wish to participate in this research project! 🙏
If you represent a 3D data repository or interactive display platform platform, I'd love to hear from you! Please complete this short survey 👉 forms.gle/1RsU35P1SjJj...

Here's my list so far: who am I missing? Who have I forgotten?

#H3DAR #GLAM3D
February 4, 2026 at 2:09 PM
If you represent a 3D data repository or interactive display platform platform, I'd love to hear from you! Please complete this short survey 👉 forms.gle/1RsU35P1SjJj...

Here's my list so far: who am I missing? Who have I forgotten?

#H3DAR #GLAM3D
February 4, 2026 at 1:08 PM
How should we interact with 3D history online? 🏺🖥️

Join our workshop to visually prototype a new platform for UK #CulturalHeritage 3D data. Help us design the features that bring artifacts to life. Sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/uk-heritag...

#H3DAR #GLAM3D
UK Heritage 3D Data at Risk: Visual Prototyping Online Workshop
Join digital heritage peers in a hands on visual prototyping workshop!
www.eventbrite.co.uk
January 28, 2026 at 11:23 AM
What a difference a month makes!

I have heard from the *27th* unique organisation 🎉 A good start on hearing from at least 50 UK heritage orgs.

Now I really want/need to hear from both Welsh and Scottish organisations as they are currently underrepresented in the data...
We have lift off! 🚀✨

The first survey response is in, expert interviews are getting booked, + free tickets to the online 'ask me anything' in January are getting picked up.

The UK 3D Heritage Data at Risk project is underway ...and I want to hear from YOU next :)

Info + links in replies 👇
January 21, 2026 at 1:06 PM
Reposted by Thomas Flynn
Exhibit v5 is here! 🚀

New features:

🔹 Simpler hosting (Firebase App Hosting replacing Vercel)
🔹 New Landing Pages & Quiz UI
🔹 Moveable Pinpoints + 3D Panning
🔹 Source Available License (Get repo access to modify code!)

exhibit.so/store
January 13, 2026 at 10:27 AM
A recording of the #H3DAR AMA session, is now online: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbMt...

We discussed:
🔭 The scope of the issues at stake.
🚧 Challenges faced by heritage organisations.
⚖️ The balance between heritage practice & achievable (affordable) data management.

#GLAM3D #GLAM #DataManagement
Commons:UK Heritage 3D Data at Risk - Wikimedia Commons
commons.wikimedia.org
January 14, 2026 at 10:51 AM
Join our Ask Me Anything session tomorrow! We're discussing the risks of commercial platform reliance and how to build sustainable, FAIR solutions for our digital history.

⏰ Tomorrow @ 10:00 AM 👇 Sign up now: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/uk-heritag...

#GLAM3D #H3DAR
January 12, 2026 at 11:21 AM
Mae arolwg Data Treftadaeth 3D y DU mewn Perygl bellach ar gael yn y Gymraeg! 🐲

🔗 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Ystyriwch ymateb os ydych chi'n weithiwr proffesiynol treftadaeth yng Nghymru sy'n gweithio gyda data 3D.

#H3DAR #cymraeg #welsh #welshlanguage #GLAM3D
Arolwg Rhanddeiliaid Data 3D Treftadaeth y DU sydd mewn Perygl
Croeso a diolch am gyfranogi. Nod prosiect ymchwil Data 3D Treftadaeth y DU mewn Perygl yw mapio tirwedd gyfredol digideiddio 3D yn sector treftadaeth ddiwylliannol y DU. Rydym yn ymchwilio i ganfod s...
docs.google.com
January 8, 2026 at 11:08 AM
Calling all UK heritage professionals working with #3D data: I want to hear from you as part of the *UK Heritage 3D Data at Risk* project.

3 Minute introduction video:
youtube.com/watch?v=ZILD...

Join the AMA session, January 13 2026, 10am UK:
eventbrite.co.uk/e/uk-heritag...

#GLAM3D
UK Heritage 3D Data at Risk Project - Introduction
YouTube video by The Spatial Heritage Review
youtube.com
January 7, 2026 at 10:12 AM
We have lift off! 🚀✨

The first survey response is in, expert interviews are getting booked, + free tickets to the online 'ask me anything' in January are getting picked up.

The UK 3D Heritage Data at Risk project is underway ...and I want to hear from YOU next :)

Info + links in replies 👇
December 18, 2025 at 9:54 AM
📢Calling all *UK* heritage folks working with 3D data: I'd like to hear from you!

"UK 3D Heritage at Risk" project seeks to gather info from *at least* 50 organisations...

Links in thread.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZILD...
.
#GLAM3D #UK #Heritage #3D #Data #Galleries #Libraries #Archives #Museums
UK Heritage 3D Data at Risk Project - Introduction
YouTube video by The Spatial Heritage Review
www.youtube.com
December 15, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Reposted by Thomas Flynn
This is an exciting project, led by @nebulousflynn.bsky.social, to safeguard access to the UK’s digital 3D heritage at risk through over-reliance on commercial and free-to-use platforms for storage and dissemination. I'm happy to be serving on the advisory board and looking forward to discussions.
Wikimedia UK has been awarded a grant of £56,198 from National Lottery Heritage Fund towards our ‘UK Heritage 3D Data at Risk: Developing a Strategy for Long Term Access & Storage’ project. The grant will help ensure future access to the UK’s 3D heritage data.

More info: tinyurl.com/3ma28psr
November 26, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Reposted by Thomas Flynn
This is incredibly important work thinking through where to store, share, and engage with 3D models of open culture when commercial platforms aren't trusted stewards
Oh hey, it's me!

Very excited to finally launch this project in partnership with @wikimediauk.bsky.social, funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund.

If you produce or work with cultural heritage 3D data in UK I'd love to speak with you! Links in thread 👇
Wikimedia UK has been awarded a grant of £56,198 from National Lottery Heritage Fund towards our ‘UK Heritage 3D Data at Risk: Developing a Strategy for Long Term Access & Storage’ project. The grant will help ensure future access to the UK’s 3D heritage data.

More info: tinyurl.com/3ma28psr
November 26, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Oh hey, it's me!

Very excited to finally launch this project in partnership with @wikimediauk.bsky.social, funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund.

If you produce or work with cultural heritage 3D data in UK I'd love to speak with you! Links in thread 👇
Wikimedia UK has been awarded a grant of £56,198 from National Lottery Heritage Fund towards our ‘UK Heritage 3D Data at Risk: Developing a Strategy for Long Term Access & Storage’ project. The grant will help ensure future access to the UK’s 3D heritage data.

More info: tinyurl.com/3ma28psr
November 26, 2025 at 11:41 AM
It's been an interesting & busy few weeks for me! Feeling grateful to have spoken at events in Belfast IE, Coventry UK, and Oslo NO.

I'll share a recap soon in my newsletter, as well as some other exciting news about a project that is just getting underway 👀
November 21, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Reposted by Thomas Flynn
A friend of mine at Scan Space NZ put together a survey aimed at better understanding the current state of the #photogrammetry & #3D scanning industry, including those in #glam & other cultural heritage institutions. Please take a peek if you have time! #archaeology

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Photogrammetry Industry Survey
The intention of this survey is to understand where the industry sits at with the current software/hardware/ pipelines and workflows, in addition we want to learn where we lack support in software/har...
docs.google.com
September 24, 2025 at 9:07 AM
📢 @rijksmuseum.bsky.social's 2and3D Photography call for papers is still open—I recommend you throw your hat in the ring.

👍 I sit on the advisory board and it is one of my favourite heritage imaging conferences with a very welcoming and fun atmosphere!

www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/whats-on/...

#GLAM3D
September 10, 2025 at 12:52 PM
🏛️ Call for EU Heritage Partners! 🏛️

Join our proposal for a #HorizonEurope project testing new tools for the European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage (#ECCCH).

This is a funded opportunity to innovate. Deadline mid-Sept ⏳

Details here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
August 25, 2025 at 8:24 AM
My spatial heritage group on LinkedIn has reached over 1,600 members 🎉 linkedin.com/groups/13126...

I used @rapidpipeline.bsky.social's new @blender.org plugin to locally optimise geometry and texture atlases for this little scene.
August 24, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Reposted by Thomas Flynn
Today is the last day to submit your abstracts for our free online digital archaeology conference (2-4 October)! CfP closes tonight at midnight!

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

@caaint.bsky.social @caa-lac.bsky.social @caapoland.bsky.social @caa-ssla.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy @caadk.bsky.social
August 18, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Can anyone share a link to live examples of 3D with user selectable 'layers' of label annotations? i.e. choose to view the same model overlaid with annotations from author A, author B, or author C? Or theme A, theme B, theme C?

#3D #museums #GLAM3D
July 21, 2025 at 4:18 PM
I wrote something about a recently completed digitisation and augmented reality project I undertook for the Saudi Arabia Ministry of Culture and ArcheoConsultant 🔗 open.substack.com/pub/nebulous...

#GLAM3D #3DforCulture #museums #heritage #art #history #photogrammetry
July 14, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Starting in 5 minutes 👇
The next @iiif.bsky.social #3D Community call is THIS THURSDAY, July 10!

Neil Trevett of The Khronos Group will present on glTF development. A key chance to discuss 3D interoperability. 12pm EDT / 5pm UK.

Join & learn more: iiif.io/community/gr...

#GLAM3D
July 10, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Happening later today 👇

#GLAM #GLAM3D #Interoperability #Digitisation #3D
The next @iiif.bsky.social #3D Community call is THIS THURSDAY, July 10!

Neil Trevett of The Khronos Group will present on glTF development. A key chance to discuss 3D interoperability. 12pm EDT / 5pm UK.

Join & learn more: iiif.io/community/gr...

#GLAM3D
July 10, 2025 at 8:18 AM