Digital Archaeology

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…

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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

Print

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

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49 links (Lara Croft, Lego, Indiana Jones etc)

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