Location: Center for Digital Archaeology – CoDA / Mactia Lab, 2224 Piedmont, Berkeley, CA 94720-3710, CA. P.A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, Berkeley, 94720-3710, CA. Description: This course is aimed at teaching how to plan, organize, and conduct a project of digital documentation of a museum collection. The training will focus on how to classify, describe, and digitally
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Anthro 136E Summer 2011 Course: El Presidio de San Francisco (Part 5)
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
[Read more]Anthro 136E Summer 2011 Course: El Presidio de San Francisco (Part 4)
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
[Read more]Anthro 136E Summer 2011 Course: El Presidio de San Francisco (Part 3)
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,
[Read more]Anthro 136E Summer 2011 Course: El Presidio de San Francisco (Part 2)
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
[Read more]Anthro 136E Summer 2011 Course: El Presidio de San Francisco (Part 1)
(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
[Read more]Digital Imaging for Archaeology Immersive – A Recap
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
[Read more]The Presidio DAA presents its first results
Field and lab procedures, excavation forms, collection data, geographic information and in-depth analysis results are only a few of the many types of data produced during survey and fieldwork. These corpora of scientific information have to be documented with authorship, provenience, location
[Read more]Tip – Roundtrip your data in Flickr from Lightroom
You want people to do the right thing and cite your photos on the web. Unfortunately, getting your copyright information to ‘stick’ in photos is not as easy as it should be. With Lightroom 3 and Publish Services, this is becoming a whole lot better. First the bad news. Flickr converts all files to jpegs, period.
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