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A lecture for the Public Archaeology course at UCL, 3/12/12 Links for all things mentioned are on the penultimate slide, it would mean far more with the text to go with it.
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Digital Archaeology
I am not talking about rescuing old or damaged data…
I am talking about applying digital techniques to archaeological data, theory, method and practice…
Drag picture to placeholder or click icon to addA founder of public archaeology:
Today the public has every right to its archaeology, palatably garnished…1955: 64
"The future has to be, without question, the museum as a publisher and broadcaster"
Neil MacGregor (Director of the British Museum)
"The challenge is, to what extent do we remain authors, and in what sense do we become publishers providing a platform for international conversations?
I am certain that in the next 10 to 15 years, there will be a limited number of people working in galleries, and more effectively working as commissioning editors working on material online.”
Nicholas Serota (Director of the Tate)
Recent statements
Essential texts
Large scale digital repositories
Social media experimentation
Open source site based archaeology
Opensource tools
Licensing
Ahead of the game
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CIDOC-CRM
Let’s return to MacGregor & Serota…
Museum as a broadcaster
Collaboration: BBC/BM
A history of the World
Digital
Radio
BT Vision: Museum on demand
Museum as a publisher…
Book of the dead app
Gebelein Man: #murder3500BC
Gallery 64 until mid December
3D technology
Stonehenge laser scan
DIY 3D: Horse Selene
Polynomial Texture Mapping
Computed tomography: The Selby Hoard
Reconstruction
• http://vimeo.com/54117535 - Grant Cox’s Catal Hoyuk
• http://vimeo.com/45452797 - Grant Cox Selby Hoard
Archaeology: games
Evolving genre
Mobile experience
VERA: Roman Silchester
Image from Melissa Terras blog
The iPad at Pompeii
The Google Art Project
Digital Dead Sea Scrolls
Follow guidelines
For example the HLF document:Thinking about… Using digital technology in
heritage projects
Follow standards
Don’t be afraid to fail
Evaluate
Jump on the social web
Is it a con?
• Are projects on socmedia making an impact?
• Are people using it effectively?• Ask Lorna Richardson in a year’s time.
The Search for Tamerlane: Google+
Crowdsourcing archaeology
Crowdfunding archaeology
Are kickstarter funded projects different to great excavations, or expeditions like Warren’s
excavations in Jerusalem?
Public subscription to fund archaeology? 19th Century? 21st Century? Discuss. This is a good thing.
More please.
Back to Wheeler
..the days of private patronage are over, and most field archaeology comes out of our rates and taxes..
Still Digging 1955:64
A new model of delivery for a tired format?
Discussion and papers
URLS in this lecture
http://bitly.com/bundles/portableant/6
49 links (Lara Croft, Lego, Indiana Jones etc)
