CAA – presentations
Anxiety discourse by Jeremy Huggett. Well, conference over, dust settled, time for some reflection. Overall, another rip-roaring success with some really interesting talks and a thoroughly entertaining...
View ArticleArchaeological Computing Research Group Seminar, May 23rd 2012
I’ve been meaning to have a proper go with Storify for a while now and so have taken the opportunity to document a recent talk I gave and some follow up discussions. As usual, presentation itself is on...
View ArticleFestival of British Archaeology
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV). Image courtesy of Callen Lenz. This year, as part of the Festival of British Archaeology, I am very lucky to be managing a dream geomatics project which has a load of...
View ArticleDay of Archaeology
Day of Archaeology 2012, logo by Glenn Hustler of Enkyad Heritage Media. Used under CC License. Just finished taking a bit of time away from finishing CAA papers to do a blog for the Day of...
View ArticleSt Andrew’s, Holcombe – geomatics and geophysics in action!
Archaeological Survey at St Andrew’s Church, Holcombe, Somerset using Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), Total Station Theodolites (TST), Terrestrial Laser Scanner (TLS) and Reflectance...
View ArticleHistoric Churches – the conservation and repair of ecclesiastical buildings
Church Tower A new publication from Cathedral Communications Ltd is now available online. Some really interesting case studies and relevant information for anyone working on historic ecclesiastical...
View ArticlePractical Applications of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in the...
earthorama by spdorsey I will be teaching at the University of Oxford Department for Continuing Education next May. The one day course is being directed by Andrew Lowerre (English Heritage) and...
View ArticleArchaeological survey at Sandsfoot Castle; recording one of Henry VIII’s castles
GIM International, September 2012 cover featuring Archaeological Survey at Sandsfoot Castle The latest issue of GIM International contains a feature article on one of the projects I managed for Wessex...
View ArticleGIS in the Digital Humanities
Spatial Humanities at Lancaster The good folks from the Spatial Humanities Project based at Lancaster University are running a free one day seminar in November. This is only part of their outreach...
View ArticleFestival of Archaeology 2012
The events at Holcombe this summer for the Festival of Archaeology were well attended and a thorough success. I’m working on the data gathered as we speak; the data from the UAV in particular is...
View ArticleGIS software for the Digital Humanities: A free two-day workshop
Spatial Humanities at Lancaster Following on from their previous event, the good folks at Lancaster University are running another seminar in April. Such opportunities are few and far between and GIS...
View ArticleValuing the Profession
Archaeology in action Archaeology as a profession is a tough place to work, with pay and conditions well below standard. The feeling that archaeologists do their job as a vocation and are not...
View ArticleBRITARCH RIP. Long live BRITARCH…?
Grave monumentsThe BRITARCH mailing list has long been a place where one could ask a question and some friendly, helpful person would either know the answer or know someone who does or just offer some...
View ArticleGeosemantics; the story so far
Semantic Web Rubik’s Cube by dullhunk Into the second month of the PhD now and things are starting to coalesce and take shape. A framework for development, testing and deployment of proposed...
View ArticleDigital Geoarchaeology 2013
Sandsfoot Castle This interdisciplinary conference is to be held later this year in Germany. With a broad range of subjects to be included, this promises to make a very useful contribution to the...
View Article3D Laser Scanning: Seeking a New Standard in Documentation
Terrestrial Laser Scanning (TLS) The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) and the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS) are organising a workshop to look at the...
View ArticleExploring the Agency of Landscape
Foggy November English landscape – animals graze with trees and hedges, historic features of the English landscape, overlooked by those modern icons, the National Grid power lines The symposium The...
View ArticleHESTIA2: Exploring spatial networks through ancient sources
Herodotus The Hestia2 project is described as “a public engagement project that aims to cross boundaries between the academic, commercial and educational sectors“. As part of this, a free one-day...
View ArticleDigital Heritage Services – progress
16mm Newsarchive by DRs Kulturarvsprojekt Archaeogeomancy are pleased to be entering the third month of offering a range of digital heritage and geomatics services. Focussing on consultancy and...
View ArticleDigital Heritage International Congress 2013
Fort St Jean and MuCEM by obni Possibly the largest gathering of digital heritage specialists ever will take place this autumn in Marseilles, France. As the conference website states: Fall 2013 will...
View Article