A cross-disciplinary exploration of Cultural Heritage in the Digital Age on a global and local scale.
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Six Fundraising Lessons from the world most successful fundraisers at the 2016 “Nonprofit Fundraising Masters” event in San Francisco
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Looking back on the process, Kodak PCD conversion almost seems easy. If you are at the beginning of your zip recuperation journey, these steps may not be obvious, but they are very doable. The only solution available which will keep images high-resolution, convert and maintain original metadata, and save you a LOT of working hours is PCD Magic!
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At the Lowest Place on Earth, on the South-East shores of the Dead Sea, nestled in the Ghor es-Safi and a short turn off the Dead Sea highway, you’ll find a little museum with a big mission and big stories to tell.
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The Lifeways of Ancient Africans offers an overview of the archaeological heritage of Africa, from the emergence of modern humans to the beginnings of European colonization.
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Petaluma, CA: A quirky history, Hollywood’s slice of Americana in Northern California, and the struggle to remain “Eggcentric”
Read MoreA course syllabus on the “art” of prehistory and its meanings. At least how we see it with our modern mind…
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A course syllabus on the “art” of prehistory and its meanings. At least how we see it with our modern mind…
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uth Tringham gives a thorough analysis of state of the art, best practices, and successful (or not) case studies, and shares a new audience-centric point of view. Above all, she shifts the focus from 3D modeling in archaeology and cultural heritage to consider the ways in which a more active motivation and engagement of users (whether professionals or general public) might also lead to the long-term sustainability of the models and visualizations.
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There is something to be said about big data and the information we can gather about human behavior from the analysis of views and likes on web 2.0 sites, but trying to make sense of huge masses of data on the human scale can be quite an undertaking. The internet is a great place to share stories and archive knowledge, but curation and storytelling via a small collection of data can create an intimate experience in a sea of voices.
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This Digital Documentation in Archaeology Syllabus was a collaboration between CoDA, the Presidio of San Francisco, and MACTiA of UC Berkeley.
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Doing Images Right Part 2: Learn more about available formats for managing your files and metadata in this series on archival photography and image management.
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Small Places and Big Histories Caudium, Southern Italy, and the trick that defeated the proud Romans ca. 1920 postcard of Montesarchio. From the Archivio Storico of the Istituto E. Fermi Montesarchio is identified by archaeologists with the ancient Caudium, an...
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Knowing which format to use when capturing new photographs can be confusing, especially if we hope for them to be a good fit for a long-term, sustainably archived collection. Here we put together some information and resources around available archival photography formats and the latest recommendations for the field of Archaeology and Cultural Heritage.
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Sípnuuk Digital Library
The Karuk Tribe and UC Berkeley are working together to build this resource for researchers, tribal departments and local communities to enhance understanding of regional food security issues, identify solutions and to document and provide access to knowledge of traditional foods and materials.
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Archaeology and community archives can help foster communities' sense of social heritage and address the difficult tasks in taking care of cultural heritage.
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This simple folder structure is set up at the beginning of all projects we work on and it helps us to define our media processing workflow in order to produce results that meet the needs of clients and funding institutions for sustainable, archival, and accessible data.
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A little planning, and approaching digital technology wisely, can help you achieve long-term digital sustainability for your precious research data.
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We left off last week with me feeling reassured that I could show up to work each day and act like some sort of Product Manager and Business-Guy All-Arounder… In this Part 2 of my post, I describe 6 product management principles that I have adopted and adapted to help CoDA’s mission of preserving cultures digitally.
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My first work after Product Manager School was five months of consulting at a nonprofit. I quickly learned that the differences between nonprofit and for-profit companies don’t really impact the development of the products and services themselves. Soon after meeting the CoDA team, I knew that the skills I’d been developing in school could be put to good use in this unexpected new setting.
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