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Internships
The Center for Digital Archaeology sponsors a thriving internship program, where young scholars and professionals learn state-of-the-art techniques and work on real-world projects. The techniques and skills you will develop at CoDA range from advanced digital photography to video editing, from 3D modeling to web content management. You will be actively involved in our field
[Read more]BADCamp in Berkeley: a Drupal Full-Immersion
Last month Elena and Connor from the CoDA team spent a lovely weekend in the sunny Berkeley hills to learn about new features in Drupal. Drupal is an open-source CMS (content management system), a flexible and highly customizable tool for designing and developing cool websites and web content. The CoDA staff is familiar with Drupal already for having used it
[Read more]Interns in Action – Brazilian Cultural Heritage Through Food…and the Joys of Digital Media
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,
[Read more]Interns in Action – Vulture Crowns and Guinea Fowl: Building Digital Archival Resources for the Ancient Nubian Site of Kerma
We continue surveying what our interns get up to with a trip report from Elizabeth Minor, who spent her summer seeking buried treasure in archival records on the East Coast and across the pond.
[Read more]Interns in Action – Trisha's Summer
The interns here at the Center for Digital Archaeology are some of the most creative, inspired, and talented people I’ve had the privilege of working with. Not only are they the driving force behind major projects like the Digital Archaeology Archives at the Presidio while juggling full course loads at Berkeley, but they also manage
[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]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]TAG2011 Recap
The US Theoretical Archaeological Group meeting was held on May 6-8 at UC Berkeley this year, and CoDA played a big part. Both Ruth Tringham and the students from our Digital Documentation course presented at the Dialogues in Photography session, and CoDA interns provided their photographic services for the weekend. View them on flickr.
[Read more]Good Internet Conference 2011 at UC Berkeley
CoDA was happy to be asked to help with video production at the Good Internet Conference, held April 23 at UC Berkeley. We had a great time and made some new friends. [<a href="http://storify.com/coda_ucb/the-good-internet-conference" target="blank">View the story "The Good Internet Conference" on Storify]</a> <a href=”http://storify.com/coda_ucb/the-good-internet-conference” target=”_blank”>View “The Good Internet Conference” on Storify</a>
[Read more]Summer 2011 – Summer Course – Digital Documentation and Representation of Cultural Heritage
Anthropology 136e. Documenting, Representing, and Interpreting Cultural Heritage at the San Francisco Presidio: a 4-unit 6-week field and studio course that satisfies the methods requirement for the major in Anthropology at UC Berkeley.
[Read more]Spring 2011 – Semester Course – Digital Documentation and Representation of Cultural Heritage
UC Semester Course (Anthropology 136E) January 19 – May 6 Instructor Michael Ashley 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
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