P19510: Eastman Museum Digitization Process

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Project Summary	Project Information
The George Eastman Museum's 2D artifact digitization process is currently an almost entirely manual one and is very labor intensive and time consuming. The museum photographer must manually calibrate the lighting to account for camera height, position the artifact carefully and capture one or more images of it while verifying the quality of the images and cleaning away dust every few images. Ideally, this digitization process would have many of its key steps be automated, greatly reducing the time taken to digitize an object and reducing strain on the operator. This automation would function in such a way as to ensure the safety of both the artifact being imaged and the operator of the system. The goals of this project are to analyze the current digitization process and to identify and address major points of improvement. These issues will be addressed in such a way as to be compliant to OSHA standards and intellectual property licenses and allow for the ability to upgrade the current equiment and to meet the FADGI 4-star requirements.	Project Name George Eastman Museum Digitization Process Improvement Project Number P19510 Start Term 2181 (Fall, 2018) End Term 2185 (Spring, 2019) Faculty Guide Dr. Alexander Loui, acleec@rit.edu Primary Customer Elizabeth Chiang Sponsor (financial support) George Eastman Museum

Team Members

From left: Christopher Hein, Rahul Shah, Tyler Czupryk, Harley Olsen, Andrew Fountain, Erin Kosciewicz

From left: Christopher Hein, Rahul Shah, Tyler Czupryk, Harley Olsen, Andrew Fountain, Erin Kosciewicz

Member	Role	Contact
Erin Kosciewicz	Team Leader	emk4084@rit.edu
Andrew Fountain	Lead Software Engineer	arf8856@rit.edu
Tyler Czupryk	Lead Electrical Engineer	tjc2594@rit.edu
Christopher Hein	Communicator	cph8672@rit.edu
Harley Olsen	Facilitator	hmo1597@rit.edu
Rahul Shah	Purchaser	rms7435@rit.edu

Work Breakdown: By Phase

MSD I & II	MSD I	MSD II
Planning & Execution Project Photos and Videos Imagine RIT Gate Reviews	Problem Definition Systems Design Preliminary Detailed Design Detailed Design	Build & Test Prep Subsystem Build & Test Integrated System Build & Test Customer Handoff & Final Project Documentation (Verification & Validation)

Work Breakdown: By Topic

Project Management	Design Tools	Design Documentation	Implementation	Validation	Presentation & Dissemination
PRP Requirements Schedule Cost Risk Management Problem Management Communication & Minutes	Use Cases Benchmarking Functional Decomposition Morphological Chart Pugh Concept Selection	BOM Mechanical Drawings Electrical Schematics Software Diagrams Facility Layout Manuals	Mockups Test Fixtures Prototyping Test Plans	Analysis Results Simulations Test Results	Design Review Documents Technical Paper Poster Imagine RIT Exhibit