This is an archive of all our posts authored by: Elena Toffalori
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August 15, 2013
“The trowel is still the most important tool for figuring out how different elements relate to one another – but having CoDA in the field gives a framework for organizing observations and easily sharing them with other researchers around the world.”
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January 21, 2013
“We are the results of our ancestors investments. CoDA helps people to preserve their stories providing an inestimable value that I want to valorize.”
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January 31, 2012
We do a lot of talking about digital archaeology, metadata or the Cloud. But the truth is, when it comes to Cultural Heritage, very often we have to deal with archives (or messy piles) of physical memories, presumably with relevant access or preservation issues, which is why the digital documentation we are able to produce
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January 26, 2012
In the last two years the CoDA team has been taking care of a heterogeneous amount of data collected and produced by the Archaeological Lab of the Presidio Trust throughout its recent history of survey, fieldwork, and documentation activity (see our previous update). This work of standardization and cross-referencing, together with new first-hand data production through digitalization
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December 8, 2011
You should know by now, we are great advocates of Cloud services such as Flickr, Soundcloud, Vimeo, or Storify, that allow our rich media to get out there in the world and have a social life on their own. That’s what we could define Cloud content, and you can find as many online cool tools
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December 7, 2011
We’ve been particularly busy in the last weeks with development work on Mukurtu, a community-based digital archive and content management tool. Want to learn more? Sign up for the Mukurtu mailing list and try out Mukurtu online. SIGNUP IS CLOSED FOR THIS EVENT. Initial feedback shows that the project has been gaining interest worldwide from a
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November 11, 2011
Last month Elena and Connor from the CoDA team spent a lovely weekend in the sunny Berkeley hills to learn about new features in Drupal. Drupal is an open-source CMS (content management system), a flexible and highly customizable tool for designing and developing cool websites and web content. The CoDA staff is familiar with Drupal already for having used it
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Elena Toffalori /
November 5, 2011
Intern Erica Pallo interviews John Jameson, Senior Archaeologist for the Southeast Archeological Center of the National Park Service on October 25, 2011
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Elena Toffalori /
October 5, 2011
CoDA intern Erica Pallo interviewed Tom Noble on September 27, 2011 via Skype. Mr. Noble is a photogrammetry specialist for the Bureau of Land Management in Colorado, as well as an expert in other digital photography technologies, and was at the Presidio of San Francisco in August of this year to assist in the preservation
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September 26, 2011
Back to the what I wish I’d known series after a summer break, and this time we’ll be trying to make some sense out of what using metadata could mean for our personal data and everyday activities. Think about the Web and how tags and keywords (which are nothing but metadata) have transformed the way content is accessed, browsed
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September 22, 2011
Intern Erica Pallo interview Dr. Kimberly Christen, Project Director for the Mukurtu project and archival platform (www.mukurtu.org), on August 30, 2011 to discuss the need for new forms of digital content management tools for indigenous communities around the world to preserve their heritage, and Mukurtu’s attempt to fill that void by creating innovative software that
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Elena Toffalori /
September 22, 2011
Intern Erica Pallo interviews Principal Archaeologist Eric Blind of El Presidio de San Francisco on August 2, 2011
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August 25, 2011
View “Siggraph 2011 Recap” on Storify
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August 1, 2011
This is the third in a series of Tips of the Week on Web development “for beginners”, this time dedicated to some of our discoveries in the field of web marketing and promotion of your company, products or website through the internet. Brought to you by Elena, CoDA’s spy in the world of web development.
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July 18, 2011
This week’s tip is part of a newly inaugurated series about web development and off-the-shelf web presence tools we’ve been trying ourselves and we can’t wait to share with you. Last week we took some first steps in putting together a website, getting support, minimizing efforts and keeping track of our moves. We also mentioned
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Elena Toffalori /
July 11, 2011
Summer is here and although the beach is calling us from the west facing windows, up in the CoDA Treehouse office (no kidding.. come and check it out yourself on one of our hot cool workshops!) we are working like busy bees to keep our web presence fresh and zippy! The reason is – whether
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Elena Toffalori /
May 30, 2011
This tip explains how to combine two popular cloud softwares (Zotero, a reference/bibliography manager, and the online storage application Dropbox) into a new mashup service.
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May 16, 2011
Calling all 3D modelers, video-gamers, technologists, nerds and open-source supporters out there! (Strong passion for archaeology optional!) A brand new version of Blender, our favorite open modeling software, has been released! Here at CoDA we have tried to catch a first glimpse of the renewed interface and features of the software: we had some eye-openers, and
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