Bring Your Own Heritage

This one day event run by the project from Robert Gordon University Aberdeen was a complete sell out with spaces at a premium for a free event aimed at discussing digital and online projects, services and proposals with those involved in local history and heritage.

The session opened with Dr Lizzie Tait welcoming everyone and explaining the programme and the aims of the event. She then introduced Prof Richard Laing to kick off by outlining their ‘Bring Your Own Heritage’ project. This was a highly innovative scheme which saw the team from Robert Gordon use a state of the art laser scanner to record parts of Elgin. Prof Laing is based in architectural academe and his plan was to record the town with this new scanner, creating a digital testimony to how the town looks now and of course documenting old and new buildings, not to mention geographical features that…