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
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Interview with John Jameson, National Park Service
Intern Erica Pallo interviews John Jameson, Senior Archaeologist for the Southeast Archeological Center of the National Park Service on October 25, 2011
[Read more]Interview with Tom Noble, Bureau of Land Management
CoDA intern Erica Pallo interviewed Tom Noble on September 27, 2011 via Skype. Mr. Noble is a photogrammetry specialist for the Bureau of Land Management in Colorado, as well as an expert in other digital photography technologies, and was at the Presidio of San Francisco in August of this year to assist in the preservation
[Read more]Timelapse @ the Presidio
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
[Read more]The Presidio Photogrammetry Project
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
[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]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]El Presidio – A Primer
It may be summer, but school is already in session for the students enrolled in Anthropology 136e, a course on digital documentation and representation right here in San Francisco’s beautiful Presidio. CoDA’s own Michael Ashley and Ruth Tringham are leading this Berkeley-run course, which had its first session on Tuesday.
[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
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