Tip – How Not to Lose Your S%$T
First in a series, inspired by the true story of a graduate student who is in the midst of recovering his dissertation from a dead hard drive. This three part series will help you make a bomb/fool...
View ArticleTip – How Much is 6 Years of Your Life Worth? $2200
Darren Modzelewski heard the “click of death” on his external hard drive three weeks ago. Thus began a saga to save his dissertation. It ends well, thanks to DriveSavers, so read on! [<a...
View ArticleDigital 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,...
View ArticleAnthro 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...
View ArticleTip – 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...
View ArticleAnthro 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...
View ArticleAnthro 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...
View ArticleTip – Saving Data, Saving Dollars
I was at BestBuy on Saturday picking up some external hard drives for a project, where several equally lost people were milling around looking for the killer weekend deals. In fact, I was looking for...
View ArticleThe 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, whose excellent manual I reference...
View ArticleDigital 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...
View ArticleInterview with Kimberly Christen, Washington State University
Intern Erica Pallo interview Dr. Kimberly Christen, Project Director for the Mukurtu project and archival platform (www.mukurtu.org), on August 30, 2011 to discuss the need for new forms of digital...
View ArticleInterview 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...
View ArticleCoDA on the Road – Amache Relocation Camp
The good news about digital archaeology is that it often doesn’t require any travel. The bad news is that it often doesn’t require any travel! This week is one of those rare exceptions, as Michael...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleWhat 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...
View ArticleHearst Reisner Digital Collection – Project Intro
The HRDC project is a collaborative pilot project conducted by CoDA, the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology (PAHMA), Near Eastern Studies Department (NES), and Cultural Heritage Imaging (CHI), in...
View ArticleImmersive 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...
View ArticleWorkshop | Field and Laboratory Photography for Archaeology
Workshop | Half-day A hands-on, practical workshop covering studio photography (artifacts, samples, publication imaging) and site photography. We will cover the essentials of color calibration,...
View ArticleSummer Course | Digital Documentation and Representation of Museum Collections
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...
View ArticleChuck Ashley Memorial Photography Scholarship Fund
In July 2011 CoDA established a memorial scholarship fund in photographer Charles Ashley’s name, soon after his death in June 2011. The scholarship is aimed at helping students interested in...
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