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Category Archives: Paper Abstracts
Peter Rauxloh (Museum of London Archaeology) This paper takes the Day of Archaeology held in 2012 and the hosting of CAA by a commercial unit for the first time as its stimulus, to present a whistle-stop tour of some of … Continue reading
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Tagged commercial archaeology, crm, data management, data policy
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Mark Lake (University College London) This paper will discuss some of the key themes raised in the recent ‘World Archaeology’ issue on the theme of Open Archaeology. It seems indisputable that there is now very real momentum towards greater willingness … Continue reading
Paul Backhouse (English Heritage) This paper will discuss the application of laser scanning and other mass data collection technologies within cultural heritage, why we should stop scanning things and think about the implications of the collection of large quantities of … Continue reading
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Tagged big data, cultural resource management, laser scanning
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Stephen Stead (Southampton University and Paveprime Ltd) Cloud computing has become the common term used by many manufacturers to describe their products and services. Everything is now “Cloud“ or “Cloud ready” but what exactly does this mean and what are … Continue reading
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Tagged cloud computing, data management, data policy
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Michael Charno (Archaeology Data Service) Funded by JISC, the SWORD-ARM project enhances the ADS’s ingest process through the creation of the ADSeasy system which streamlines data management, contributes to the creation of more efficient workflows, and allows for more effective … Continue reading
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Tagged ADS, archive management, data deposition, data management, digital preservation, SWORD-ARM
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Chiz Harward (Urban Archaeology) For the last 40 years the excavation of urban sites has increasingly been characterised by the use of single context recording; for the last 25 years the post-excavation analysis of these sites has been increasingly characterised … Continue reading
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Tagged databases, digital recording systems, GIS, London, single context recording, urban archaeology
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Helena Demetriou (University of Southampton) This paper looks at how we can use current interactive touch screen technologies to help bridge the gap between archaeological artefacts and the viewer, enabling us to move towards a new educational paradigm. By developing … Continue reading
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Tagged artefacts, collaborative learning, digital object, multi-touch, virtual
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Ulla Rajala (University of Cambridge) Philip Mills (University of Leicester) This paper builds on the theoretical tools labelled the ‘ceramiscene’ in Mills and Rajala (2011a). This is a means of characterising a ceramic landscape utilising a hierarchical version of the … Continue reading
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Tagged ceramics, GIS, landscape archaeology, pathways, Roman
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Rebeka Vital (Shenkar College of Design and Engineering, Department of Interior Building and Environment Design, Ramat Gan, Israel) Architectural survey is an evolving field in architecture that has been affected the past decade by the technological advancements in the field … Continue reading
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Tagged 3D, digital documentation, digital preservation, digital recording systems, laser scanning
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Giovanni Murru, Marco Fratarcangeli and Tommaso Empler (Sapienza University of Rome) We present a framework for the interactive 3D visualization of archaeological sites on handheld devices using fast augmented reality techniques. The user interface allows for the ubiquitous, personalized and … Continue reading
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Tagged 3D, augmented reality, GPS, virtual, visualization
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