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Flat-headed peccary skull from Bat Cave, Missouri.
This object was produced by fourth-grade students from Lincoln School as part of the Museums in the Classroom Project.

Using QTVR for Collections Access for Research and Education

Other than the use of QTVR images of objects from the ISM collections for online exhibits and in the Museums in the Classroom Project, we are just beginning to explore providing access to collections using QTVR.

The QTVR object shown above provides a good example of a situation in which QTVR may be especially useful in improving collections access and protection. The peccary skull is quite fragile. If a researcher were interested in borrowing the specimen, the ISM could first provide a QTVR object online. The researcher might be able to determine whether the specimen shows an important part or feature. If not, the fragile specimen would not need to be shipped. In this way the QTVR can help reduce the risks involved with loaning specimens for research.

Equus phalanx from CM Cave, Comal County, TX.
The person who found this Pleistocene horse phalanx in CM Cave wished to retain it, rather than donating it to a museum. This QTVR Object movie, however, serves to document its existence for researchers.

The QTVR objects and panoramas can also be annotated to ease recognition of important features or sites.

A Panthera onca mandible fragment from Crevice Cave, Perry County, MO.


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