**UC Berkeley Immersive Scholar: Report and Outcomes (draft)**
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Background and Goals
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When UC Berkeley developed the proposal (in fall 2017) to join the Immersive Scholar cohort, the primary goal was to build on a successful program involving photogrammetry efforts associated with a visualization wall recently installed in the Hearst Museum of Anthropology. Specifically the UC Berkeley team proposed to “bring together a broader campus coalition including the library and other campus museums to develop a coordinated community and digitization program that demonstrates and realizes the potential impact of such a campus-wide approach”. Specific outputs would include photogrammetry models developed for other library and museums on campus, improved tools and workflows for 3D modeling, and improvements in the dissemination, curation and preservation of the resulting models. With broad support from campus leadership, the team hoped that UC Berkeley’s participation in the Immersive Scholar project would help the university confirm the strategic value of immersive visualization technologies at the broader campus level.
This report will summarize the project team’s efforts and accomplishments since the project began. In addition, outputs that are made available on the Immersive Scholar project site (hosted in OSF) are described and linked to. Efforts, findings, and outputs are organized into the following areas where UC Berkeley sought to contribute to the broader goals of the Immersive Scholar project.