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Michael Ashley /
October 29, 2013
CoDA is proud to announce the launch in Perth, Australia of a united, tri-continental effort: MIRA Canning Stock Route Project Archive As its name suggests in Martu Wangka, Mira literally ‘brings the hidden into the light’ by creating public access to a remarkable collection of oral histories, images, videos and cultural content.
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June 21, 2013
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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Michael Ashley /
June 21, 2012
In July 2011 CoDA established a memorial scholarship fund in photographer Charles Ashley’s name, soon after his death in June 2011. The scholarship is aimed at helping students interested in photography to buy equipment, pay for internship fees or tuitions for a school or class of their choice. CoDA also offers in-house training on digital photography, digitization
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June 20, 2012
Digital Documentation, Representation and Interpretation of Cultural Heritage at the San Francisco Presidio UC Summer Sessions Class Description This course focuses on the real world challenge of documenting cultural heritage through the creation of interpretive walks and non-invasive site installations, specifically at the Presidio of San Francisco. The course focuses on the tangible remains and
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June 20, 2012
Workshop | Half-day A hands-on, practical workshop covering studio photography (artifacts, samples, publication imaging) and site photography. We will cover the essentials of color calibration, resolution, optimal aperture and shutter speed settings, and composition. We will discuss how to develop a ‘born–archival’ workflow, helping to assure digital preservation from the field to the file.
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June 20, 2012
Immersive Course | 4 days full-day This is part of a series of CoDA’s immersive four day courses, intended to provide a first degree fluency in digital tools and technologies for archaeology and cultural heritage. Training is limited to small groups with low student-instructor ratios, limited to 12 participants. A hands-on, practical training covering studio (artifacts,
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June 20, 2012
UC Semester Course (Anthropology 136E) Description A practical, hands-on overview of cutting-edge digital technology that is being used and developed for the documentation of cultural heritage – in this case includes historic and prehistoric places: standing and buried buildings, landscapes, neighborhoods – anything which is of significance for the present population enough for someone to
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Cinzia Perlingieri /
June 6, 2012
The HRDC project is a collaborative pilot project conducted by CoDA, the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology (PAHMA), Near Eastern Studies Department (NES), and Cultural Heritage Imaging (CHI), in 2010. The aim of the project was to start an integrated digital remediation of selected pieces in the Hearst-Reisner Egyptian collection of the PAHMA for
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Elena Toffalori /
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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Michael Ashley /
December 31, 2011
In just the last 2 years, stereo photography and gigapixel imaging has gotten substantially more doable for non-specialists to produce stunning, state-of-the-art results. With fairly standard digital photography equipment, inexpensive (even free) software and some training, it is possible to create 3D models and interactives of breathtaking quality. Coupled with a solid workflow for metadata
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Elena Toffalori /
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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Sarah Lison /
November 7, 2011
Here is yet another intern who has been busy over the past few months and who will be back for some recurring posts in the future about her ongoing project. Follow Erica Pallo as she digitally documents Brazilian cultural heritage through food. San Francisco, California. Austin, Texas. Denver, Colorado. Little Rock, Arkansas. Madison, Wisconsin. Cincinnati,
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Sarah Lison /
October 13, 2011
The good news about digital archaeology is that it often doesn’t require any travel. The bad news is that it often doesn’t require any travel! This week is one of those rare exceptions, as Michael Ashley heads out to spend four days in Colorado to lend his digital documentation skills to the University of Denver. CoDA
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Elena Toffalori /
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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Connor Rowe /
September 22, 2011
Timelapse of Photogrammetry and Gigapixel Imaging of the Interior of the De Anza Room from Connor Rowe on Vimeo. Recently I wrote a blog post about the beginning of our photogrammetry project at the SF Presidio. Here is a raw (unprocessed) time lapse of the second day of that shoot. This was shot by Chris
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Ruth Tringham /
September 19, 2011
We once more return to our video lecture series on WordPress site development, and this week we’re talking multimedia!
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Sarah Lison /
September 12, 2011
Sometimes when I’m batch processing thousands of photos (as I currently am for Last House on the Hill) it’s tempting to rely on Lightroom’s automatic features, which – while pretty good for a computer – aren’t always perfect. Representing color is one of the places where I definitely don’t want to cut corners, and because
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Connor Rowe /
September 1, 2011
Last week two members of the CoDA team (Michael and I) had the unique opportunity to work with one of the masters of the art and science of photogrammetry, Tom Noble
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Erica Pallo /
August 12, 2011
Week 6 They say that all good things must come to an end. Pass the box of tissues and wipe those teary eyes: the Anthropology 136E Summer 2011 course at El Presidio de San Francisco has indeed concluded. Over the past six weeks, the students have been introduced to a variety of tools in the
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Erica Pallo /
August 5, 2011
Week 5 “You’re going to take photos with a Giga_what robot??” As I have discussed before, CoDA has a fun tool in their photographic arsenal that involves gigapixel panorama technology, has a robotic device that sits atop a tripod and cradles the camera of your choice, and has exciting interactive capabilities and limitless applications in
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