Meg Conkey’s Between the Caves Project with CoDA has faced the team with an extensive, daunting, yet fastidiously kept array of media backlogged to the early 1990’s. Her collection features media ranging from unerased chalkboards, to fieldnotes, forms, slides, floppy zips, PCDs, and powerpoint presentations. All media was impressively catalogued and organized, waiting to be
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The Last House on the Hill Video Project is a part of the CoDiFi larger initiative Last House on the Hill. A team from the University of California at Berkeley (BACH team) carried out archaeological excavations during the summers of 1997-2003 at the famous prehistoric settlement mound of Çatalhöyük, Turkey, whose archaeological remains date predominantly to
[Read more]In this video, I describe a [relatively] easy method for adding subtitles to videos. Why would you want to do this? Well, beyond the obvious reasons like providing accessibility to interested individuals who have hearing disabilities, we can use subtitles to create a moment by moment accounting of the contents. For the Last House on the
[Read more]We once more return to our video lecture series on WordPress site development, and this week we’re talking multimedia!
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Sometimes when I’m batch processing thousands of photos (as I currently am for Last House on the Hill) it’s tempting to rely on Lightroom’s automatic features, which – while pretty good for a computer – aren’t always perfect. Representing color is one of the places where I definitely don’t want to cut corners, and because
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Ruth returns this week with the third in a video lecture series on creating and managing your own website with WordPress.
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This week continues Ruth Tringham’s video lecture series on setting up your own site via WordPress.
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If you’ve been keeping up with our Web development for beginners series and are ready to dive into creating your own website, you won’t want to miss this week’s tip: the first in a video series on creating your own WordPress site!
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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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In our Digital Documentation of Cultural Heritage class, we’ve been focusing on photography, because you can’t do it all, and there’s SO much that can be done now with just cameras and some basic techniques. However, some of the imaging techniques we’re dabbling with create videos – time lapse, video essays from stills, documentation using
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