17 posts with this tag
Wanna collect data digitally?
September 06, 2016 | By Ben Carter
This is my final post as a participant in the Institute for Digital Archaeology. This post serves three purposes. First, I announce a resource that I have created to enable digital data collection in archaeology. Second, I want to mention a few of my favorite aspects of the Institute. Finally,...
Wireframes!
August 10, 2016 | By Jolene Smith
With the help of the wonderful folks at MATRIX, I’m still trying my darnedest (and not succeeding) at getting the KORA WordPress plugin to work. Which means I’m still a little stalled. Since I don’t yet know how the plugin behaves and I’m new at significant WordPress fiddling, I don’t...
Reducing visual load and visualizing geo-information
July 20, 2016 | By Neha Gupta
Since the last post, I’ve been working with Mapbox and Leaflet. I decided to branch my repo to work on a non-WebGL-based webmap. I am focusing on existing map interaction tools such as marker clustering that reduce the ‘visual load’ in MINA. As I discussed in my previous post, there...
Presenting Natchez to Archaeologists
February 22, 2016 | By Ashley Peles
This post is coming somewhat late, but I do have a good excuse; for the past week I’ve been down in Natchez, Mississippi. A small contingent of archaeologists traveled from UNC in order to do a few things: fieldwork, meet with the NPS, and present at the joint meeting of...
ReBuilding Natchez…slowly
January 12, 2016 | By Ashley Peles
During the fall, I introduced my project to re imagine Natchez during the 1720s, before it was burned to the ground. My idea for this project involves touch-screen navigation of a Unity3d model of the area around Fort Rosalie. I also want to incorporate an archaeological perspective into the information...
Living the Dream, Eyes Wide Open
September 18, 2015 | By Kathryn Sampeck
I think most archaeologists would agree that time gives us perspective. Each day of the intense week in August 2015 of training during the Institute on Digital Archaeology Method and Practice at Michigan State University was not just eye-opening, it was deeply revelatory. Topics as seemingly mundane as “digital publishing”—which...
Unearthing the Past: Archaeology and Public Outreach
September 13, 2015 | By Judy Voelker
My name is Judy Voelker, I am an associate professor of anthropology at Northern Kentucky University (NKU). I also serve as Director at the NKU Museum of Anthropology where we strive for ways for students to understand and analyze human interactions. The museum promotes cultural awareness through exhibits, presentations, and...
The Story of Cave Rock
September 04, 2015 | By Beth Smith
Cave Rock, located at Lake Tahoe in Nevada, is an important landscape feature to the communities of the Tahoe Basin and the focus of my Institute project. The prominent rock outcrop extends down from the Tahoe Basin rim into the water, and is a sentinel feature with important cultural associations...
Fun with Project Management: High-Level Fog
September 04, 2015 | By Jolene Smith
This week’s task was very high-level planning,
Colorado Community-Based Archaeology
September 04, 2015 | By Michele Koons
Hi! My name is Michele Koons. As Curator of Archaeology at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science (DMNS), my job is to conduct field research, communicate archaeology effectively to a wide audience, and curate the archaeology collection. It was a true honor to have the opportunity to attend the...
Publishing Fort Snelling Collections Data to Demonstrate Its Value for Both Research and Interpretive Projects
September 03, 2015 | By Nancy Hoffman
I plan to publish electronic catalog records for the Historic Fort Snelling archaeology collections held by the Minnesota Historical Society (MNHS) to Open Context to make them available for scholarly research, specifically for use by University of Minnesota research partner Dr. Kathryn Hayes and her students. Using the Open...
Accessing the Alfred W. Bowers Laboratory of Anthropology's Archaeological Repository
September 03, 2015 | By Stacey Camp
It has been close to two weeks since I left MSU’s Institute for Digital Archaeology Method & Practice, and my mind is still on information overload from all the tools, techniques, and new technologies I acquired while attending it. My name is Stacey Camp and I currently serve a dual...
Robust, Open, Flexible and Offline Digital Data Collection in the Field
September 02, 2015 | By Ben Carter
First, a little background… My name is Ben Carter and I am currently an assistant professor of anthropology at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, PA. However, I came to the project described below long before I was lucky enough to get my current job. My essential perspective was forged in the...
Catalina Island Eagles Nest Hunting Lodge
September 02, 2015 | By Wendy Teeter
My name is Wendy Giddens Teeter, Curator of Archaeology at the Fowler Museum at UCLA. As an archaeologist I am a Co-Director of the Pimu Catalina Island Archaeology Project (PCIAP). This blog is to document the creation of a website to present our work at Eagles Nest Hunting Lodge on...
Archaeology as Outreach
September 02, 2015 | By Mary Lennon
I am Mary Lennon from AECOM’s Cultural Resource Management (CRM) Office in Burlington, NJ. I will be doing a project based on one of our most recent excavations. Before I can announce the particulars, there are a few conversations that need to happen with our client. I will update you...
Institute Applications Now Closed – Next Steps
February 15, 2015 | By Ethan Watrall
Well, its official folks – the application deadline for the NEH funded Institute for Digital Archaeology Method and Practice has passed. Quite honestly, we’re blown away by the amount of interest the institute has received. We received 187 applications from every corner of the archaeological (and associated disciplinary) world. CRM...
Announcing the Institute for Digital Archaeology Method & Practice
November 24, 2014 | By Ethan Watrall
Archaeology has a long history of innovative work with information and computing technologies. One of the earliest example comes from James Deetz’s seminal work on Arikara ceramics carried out in the very early 1960s. Deetz used an IBM mainframe (the IBM704 at the MIT Computation Laboratory, to be precise) to...