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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Summer Course | Digital Documentation and Representation of Museum Collections
Immersive Course | Digital Imaging for Archaeology
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,
[Read more]The BACH archive and Last House on the Hill at SAA
Last House on the Hill (LHotH) is one of the projects developed with Codifi. It reconstitutes the rich multimedia and primary research data with the impressive texts of the monograph “House Lives: Building, Inhabiting, Excavating a House at Çatalhöyük, Turkey”, published by the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology. LHotH brings together the published text, complete project
[Read more]What I wish I'd known – Scanning printed pictures
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
[Read more]The Presidio DAA: making sense of archaeological archives
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
[Read more]Demonstrating Holistic Digital Imaging for MW2012
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
[Read more]Tool Reviews – Picnik online photo editor
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
[Read more]What I wish I’d known – Metadata in everyday life
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
[Read more]Digital Archaeology or Archaeology of the Digital?
“What is digital archaeology?” is a question I get a lot when I talk about my job. The basic answer, of applying digital techniques and solutions to the field of archaeology, is usually the one people figure out when they hear the phrase. However, sometimes people interpret digital archaeology as an in-depth excavation of stored
[Read more]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]Tip – Web for beginners, Part 2 – Web communication
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
[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]Tip – Web development tools for beginners, Part 1
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
[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]Tip – Turn your reference manager into an indexed online archive
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.
[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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