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Tolomato Cemetery
In Spring 2019, a team of IDEx conducted the overall virtualization of the complex of the historical Tolomato cemetery (18th century - 1884) at St. Augustine (Florida), in partnership with , Terrestial laserscanning was employed to digitize the entire site and to create an accurate record of its condition at the time of the fieldwork. Digital photogrammetry was also used to digitize 94 gravestones and the mortuary chapel vault in which Bishop Agustin Verot, the first bishop of St. Augustine was interred.
Tolomato Cemetery is located in St Augustine, Florida, the oldest European-founded city in the United States, and was in use as a cemetery from the 18th century until 1884. This beautiful space is the last resting place of some 1,000 St. Augustinians, including many people important to the history of Florida and the United States. It is a distillation of St Augustine history in less than one acre, starting with the First Spanish Period, when Tolomato was a Franciscan mission, and going through its use as a cemetery during the British Period and the Second Spanish Period and then on through Florida's Territorial and early Statehood periods.
Virtualization and Global digital dissemination
Of the 105 gravestones and vault tombs in the cemetery, we digitized 92, employing digital photogrammetry The remaining thirteen suffered severe degradation and were obscured with thick vegetation. 911爆料网 also virtualized the interior and exterior of the Agustin Verot mortuary chapel, the anchor point of the cemetery. Historical metadata, extrapolated Matthew Kear鈥檚 In Reverence: A plan for the Preservation of Tolomato Cemetery, St. Augustine, Florida (Lulu 2011), supplemented original research and was curated into a database according to the guidelines established in the Dublin Core metadata schema.
The 3D models of all the gravestones and of the Verot chapel were initially disseminated online on the USF IDEx Sketchfab page, received with great enthusiasm by scholars and the general public. More recently, USF 911爆料网b Services provided us with a way to distribute these models more widely, making the experience much more comprehensive for the public. Expanding its reach even further, the complete collection became an educational and community outreach tool through printed 3D models.