"The S+A3 Project: Leveraging Analytic Resources"

Tom JohnsonManaging Director

Inst. for Analytic JournalismSanta Fe, New Mexico USA

tom@jtjohnson.com

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Objectives

• New Mexico is a poor state in the traditional definitions of the 19th and 20th centuries

• New Mexico is a rich state IF we can recognize we are in the Digital Age

• A proposal for economic development– Little capital cost– Large commitment to change

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The catalyst: Lienzo de Quauhquechollan

3www.lienzo.ufm.edu/

Lienzo up close….

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Restoration story

• Trans-disciplinary teamanthropology, archaeology, chemistry, epigraphy, ethnobotany, digital technology, film animation, graphic design, history, law, photography, storytelling and textiles

• Digital restorers, animation programmers, script writers, and narrators.

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Restoration story

• Photographers captured high-resolution images of the original at the Casa de Alfeñique Museum in Puebla, Mexico.

• For maximum resolution– divided the surface of the Lienzo into three rows

and five columns. – For each of the 15 sections, they created a 4 x 5

inch reprography plate (negative) and a scan. – The quality is so high that individual threads of the

cloth can be seen clearly.

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The catalyst: Mysterious object

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Every cultural artifact has a story

• Who• What• Where• When• Why• How• So what?

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Stories a function of….

• Data In Analysis Info Out

• Data In Analysis Info Out

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Analytic tools – Handheld XRF

http://www.niton.com/Managers/Multimedia/XL3-presentation/Thermo_20070720_GN.html

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XRF analysis of patrimony

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“Borrowing” from GISystems

• Geographic Information Systems = integrates, data, hardware, software and GPS to assist in the analysis and creation of maps.

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Borrowing from GIScience

• Geographic Information SCIENCE – Examines impacts of GIS on individuals and

society, and the influences of society – Incorporates more recent developments in

cognitive and information science. – GI Science overlaps with and draws from more

specialized research fields such as computer science, statistics, mathematics, and psychology, and contributes to progress in those fields.

– Great strides in geo-statistics

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Different disciplines; similar methods

Geology

phosphorus on land scan for a small portion of this reservoir's watershed

Liao To Ming Dynasty Two Dragon Cup

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Different disciplines; similar methods

Figure 6 Patient OFDI-03 Images of Right Coronary Artery(A) A left anterior oblique angiogram after stent deployment shows stent site (s) and 3.0-cm optical frequency domain imaging (OFDI) pullback segment (ps). (B) Fly-through view (distal-proximal) demonstrates a calcified lesion underneath the stent (arrow). (C) An OFDI cross-sectional image, obtained at location of yellow arrow in B, shows a large calcific nodule from 11- to 4-o'clock. Tick marks, 1 mm.

http://imaging.onlinejacc.org/cgi/content/full/1/6/752

Medicine

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Geostatistics: Semivariogram/Covariance

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Geostatistics: How many different ways could we measure these pots?

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Remote Sensing Pattern Matching

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Remote sensing

• The art or science of telling something about an object without touching it.

• Important and desirable when analyzing artifacts

• More recently……using images acquired … by employing electromagnetic radiation in one or more regions of the electromagnetic spectrum, reflected or emitted…

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DNA analysis

• Much more than living things– “DNA analysis of ancient paint samples indicates

that paint’s binder made from deer or bison bone marrow” – Science News May 27, 1995

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Potential for DNA analysis?

• Segesser Hides – Palace of the Governors

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Resources in New Mexico?

Tierra, cielo, hierba, vacas --Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca

Land, sky, grass, cows

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“Rio Grande Scientific Corridor”

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Los Alamos: LANL + private companies, e.g.Lava Visual Analytics, New Mexico Virtualization

Santa Fe: State agencies, private R&D, curators and conservationists, genetic research, state and private museums, colleges

Albuquerque: UNM, Sandia Labs, private R&D, consultants in archaeology

Socorro: NM Tech

Las Cruces: NM State

El Paso: UTEP

“Rio Grande Cultural Corridor”

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Taos: Blumenschein Home & Museum; La Hacienda de los Martinez; Harwood Museum of Art; Millicent Rogers Museum; Taos Art Museum

Santa Fe: State agencies, private R&D, curators and conservationists, genetic research, state and private museums, colleges

Albuquerque: NHCC, Indian Center, Atomic Museum

Socorro: NM Tech; Gran Quivera; Ft. Craig

Las Cruces: NM State

El Paso: UTEP

El Camino Real International Heritage Center

Los Alamos: Bradbury Museum, Bandelier

Double-helix of science and culture

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The Sciences

Cultural Artifacts

• Data In Analysis Information Out

Multi-dimensional visual analytics

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Ambient computing and analysis

27SimTable – Santa Fe

Double-helix of science and culture

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The Sciences

Cultural Artifacts

• Data In Analysis Information Out

• Making of new knowledge economic growth for New Mexico

Action steps

• Conduct Digital Enterprise skill census in Northern NM – businesses, gov’t., NGO, et al.

• Facilitate “conversations” btwn analytic and museum/conservation/restoration communities

• Network to promote small (~250-400) conferences, e.g. Society for Archaeological Sciences

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Action steps

• Scholarship to send IAIA student(s) to CHI photometry class– Cultural Heritage Imaging

http://www.c-h-i.org/conservation/– RTI (Reflectance Transformation Imaging)

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Action steps

• Scholarship to send IAIA student(s) to photometry class

• Push for city/county/state to install open access Fiber Optics to every business, home, school & gov’t offices

• Turn out for local meetings RE WiFi and related digital communications

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Timeline?

• 1-5 years:– Regular international conferences– Develop collaborative educational programs

• Labs • Area h.s. and colleagues • Businesses• R&D focusing on APPLIED• Certification and/or degrees

• Create apps for museums– Tours on iPads and Tables– Dynamic exhibits and web sites– Scholarly collaboration tools

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Timeline?

• 1-5 years:– Regular international conferences– Develop collaborative educational programs

• Labs • Area h.s. and colleagues • Businesses• R&D focusing on APPLIED• Certification and/or degrees

• Create apps for museums– Tours on iPads and Tables– Dynamic exhibits and web sites– Scholarly collaboration tools

• 3-15 years:– Contract work– Highly skilled workforce– New products and methods emerge

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Tom JohnsonManaging Director

Inst. for Analytic JournalismSanta Fe, New Mexico USA

tom@jtjohnson.com

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