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
[Read more]I first heard about Map2App from Elena Toffalori, our Italian phd student working with us at the Center for Digital Archaeology (CoDA). Her friend Pietro Ferraris is one of the designers of this platform that helps you make Apps for iPhone, iPad, Android etc. One of the first examples of such an App created through
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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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Week 4 [krpano krpano="http://mrthebutler.net/krpano/funston_20110726-krpano.swf" xml="http://mrthebutler.net/krpano/funston_20110726-krpano.xml" width="580"] (Students and CoDA staff are captured here in front of historic houses on Funston Avenue using GigaPan panorama photography equipment and software technology from krpano. Use the motion controls on the image to make it interactive. Shots taken by Michael Ashley.) CSS, HTTP, URI…Oh my! Needless to say,
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Week 3 What is augmented reality? Is it a clunky, metal device from a science fiction movie with lots of blinking lights and chirping sounds; something devious found in deep in the crevices of one’s cranium that alters rational consciousness and was tapped into by scientists in the 1960s; or maybe it was were my
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(Anthropology 136E) Digital Documentation for Archaeology: Documenting, Representing, and Interpreting Cultural Heritage at the San Francisco Presidio. That is a prestigious-sounding name for a university course to be sure, but what does it mean exactly? As with all cultural heritage there are both concrete and abstract elements that make preserving patrimony a much more
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