It has been a long journey from the beginning of the BACH (Berkeley Archaeologists @ Çatalhöyük) project in 1997 to the launching (albeit softly) of its Web Edition. The BACH Project and its publication was the first collection of data to be auditioned by the Center for Digital Archaeology (CoDA). In fact it was one
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Dear Friends and Colleagues, We’ve been working on some exciting projects at CoDA and are pleased to invite you to our open house!
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Greetings from Vancouver! CoDA’s Michael Ashley is absolutely thrilled to be a guest of Musqueam Indian Band in Vancouver for the annual Aboriginal Day 2013. “I’m super happy to be here because it’s such a great chance to get face to face feedback and thoughts directly from those we serve.” -Michael Read more to learn more
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ATALM is a national non-profit organization that maintains a network of support for indigenous programs, provides culturally relevant programming and services, encourages collaboration among tribal and non-tribal cultural institutions, and articulates contemporary issues related to developing and sustaining the cultural sovereignty of Native Nations. With these goals the association organizes conferences, workshops, and institutes. Again
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Good morning, Albuquerque! Tyler Wilson is representing CoDA at IFRAO 2013, and will be posting images and updates throughout the congress. The international congress is jam packed with hundreds of attendees. Congratulations to the local ARARA crew for making this all happen! We will be posting regular updates to codifi.info/events/ifrao-2013 so check back often. We’re adding images to
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CoDA and Mukurtu are thrilled to contribute in the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) at the University of Victoria, Canada, with a full immersion 5 days seminar on Cultural Codes and Protocols for Indigenous Digital Heritage Management. DHSI is a week of intensive coursework, seminars, and lectures, where participants share ideas and methods, and develop
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The XVII International Congress of IFRAO is less than a week away. We hope you are attending! If not, check our twitter, facebook and blog for updates throughout the congress. CoDA will be leading a two-part workshop. If you are participating at IFRAO, we’d love your feedback so we can make the most of the limited
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The SAA – Society for American Archaeology, one of the largest organizations dedicated to the research, interpretation and protection of the archaeological heritage of the Americas and beyond, held its annual meeting on April, 3rd-7th 2013, in the beautiful landscape of Honolulu, Hawaii. CoDA was there with a booth in the exhibitor room and with
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The Center for Digital Archaeology is pleased to participate in the XVII International Congress of IFRAO, May 26-31, 2013. FORUM|WORKSHOP From Digitization to Preservation: Digital Collections, Needs and Challenges. This is a two part forum/workshop that emphasizes key issues and challenges in the life cycle of digital collections from digitization and digital capture to preservation and
[Read more]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
[Read more]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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What happens when you take one instructor, two interns, and three students, and give them just four days to turn out three CoDA-certified producers, ready to bring their new skills to the field? No, this is not the premise for yet another reality show, but it does describe this past week at CoDA, as we
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On June 3 2011 CoDA organized the 2011 MCN CAL SIG annual meeting titled “Places, Collections, and Digital Narratives: Towards a Stronger Collaboration between Museums and Cultural Heritage”. The event, coordinated by Cinzia Perlingieri Director of Research at CoDA and Marla Misunas Collections Information Manager at SFMoMA, brought together UC archaeologists and MCN technologists in a way
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MCN’s California SIG and the Center for Digital Archaeology at UC Berkeley, present a meeting organized by Cinzia Perlingieri, Director of Research at CoDA, bringing together UC archaeologists and MCN technologists in a way that has never been done before in the California SIG. Check the program below and join us! If you are not a Cali SIG
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On May 11, 2011, the University of Stanford hosted the conference BiblioTech: Bringing Humanities Ph.D. Innovation to Silicon Valley (check out our previous post and the conference website). After virtually attending the conference, I wouldn’t push anyone into leaving their job to pursue a humanities degree (after Damon Horowitz’s suggestive talk titled ”Why you should quit your technology
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The US Theoretical Archaeological Group meeting was held on May 6-8 at UC Berkeley this year, and CoDA played a big part. Both Ruth Tringham and the students from our Digital Documentation course presented at the Dialogues in Photography session, and CoDA interns provided their photographic services for the weekend. View them on flickr.
[Read more] Tomorrow, May 11, 2011, starting at 9:00am, Stanford University will host the conference “BiblioTech. Bringing Humanities Ph.D. Innovation to Silicon Valley”. Leading executive officers and venture capitalists in Silicon Valley industry and humanities faculties, Ph.D.s and doctoral students will get together for a groundbreaking discussion on the ways in which highly trained, skilled, and creative
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CoDA was happy to be asked to help with video production at the Good Internet Conference, held April 23 at UC Berkeley. We had a great time and made some new friends. [<a href="http://storify.com/coda_ucb/the-good-internet-conference" target="blank">View the story "The Good Internet Conference" on Storify]</a> <a href=”http://storify.com/coda_ucb/the-good-internet-conference” target=”_blank”>View “The Good Internet Conference” on Storify</a>
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