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20-21 February 2013, The Shire Hall, Monmouth, WalesTrompethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08201302493198063087noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8818610488597909953.post-51506013797003715542013-02-14T03:45:00.004-08:002013-02-14T03:45:28.929-08:00<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Only 5 days to go!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Final preperations are underway for next week, with the team busy making up delegate packs and name badges! For those of you coming along, registration will be open from 9am on the Wednesday morning in the </span><a href="http://www.shirehallmonmouth.org.uk/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Shire Hall</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, where tea and coffee will be available alongside our range of stands and exhibitions.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> We look forward to seeing you all there!</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07060966265681043223noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8818610488597909953.post-15266999942414141212013-02-08T02:08:00.003-08:002013-02-08T02:08:35.294-08:00<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">MonmouthpediA - A local project with global interest or <em>'The coolest project of 2012'</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/MonmouthpediA" target="_blank">MonmouthpediA</a> is a local innovations project which has grown quickly to global interest, being cited as <em>'the coolest project of 2012'</em> by the wikipedian community. Conceived by a Monmouth resident, the project aims to cover every single notable place, person, artefact, plant, animal and othe things in Monmouth town in as many languages as possible, with a special focus on the Welsh language. Jointly co-created and funded by Monmouthshire County Council and <a href="http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page" target="_blank">wikimedia UK</a>, the former has also funded the free town-wide Wi-Fi for the project - the first in Wales!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Greg will be presenting about his pioneering work in bringing the field of <a href="http://www.xrez.com/tech-and-services/gigapixel-panoramic-photography/" target="_blank">gigapixel photography</a> from the world of academia, to an affordable and easy to use technique benefiting a wide range of applications and markets.</span> I<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">n contrast to normal panaromic photography, which involves stiching together relatively few standard resolution images together, gigapixel photography takes multiple photographs which can be up to 300,000 pixels in width, stitching them together to form an image with an enoromus amount of detail, allowing unsurpassed online viewing and exploration. For more information and case studies of Greg's work go to the <a href="http://www.xrez.com/" target="_blank">xRez Studio website</a>. </span><br />
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07060966265681043223noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8818610488597909953.post-20751987011119863062013-02-01T06:29:00.000-08:002013-02-01T06:29:07.219-08:00<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Registration closes Friday 8th February!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Registration for the Digital Past 2013 conference closes next Friday and with 135 booked so far, available spaces are limited. With 10 keynote papers, 8 session papers,and 4 seminars, together with a range of practical workshops and trade stands it should be a fantastic couple of days. Booking forms can be found at on the <a href="http://www.rcahmw.gov.uk/HI/ENG/Our+Services/Outreach+/" target="_blank">RCAHMW</a> website!</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07060966265681043223noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8818610488597909953.post-59088486250270092842013-01-30T07:58:00.003-08:002013-01-30T07:58:51.461-08:00<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">The Zooniverse - working with 750,000 volunteers!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The <a href="https://www.zooniverse.org/?lang=en" target="_blank">Zooniverse</a> is home to the internet's largest, most popular and most successful citizen science projects. Beginning with a single project, Galaxy Zoo, in 2007 the website now allows users to actively participate in a wide range of ongoing projects in the sciences and humanities including mapping moon craters, transcribing weather observations and catagorizing whale sounds. There has been an overwhelming response from the public, with over 780,000 volunteers now contributing. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Chris will also be talking about Zoouniverse's latest project which is being carried out in partnership with the <a href="http://www.peoplescollectionwales.co.uk/" target="_blank">People's Collection Wales</a>, the aim of which is to transcribe all place names from the 2nd edition Ordnance Survey mapping for Wales.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">There will be a diverse range of hand-on workshops and digital demonstrations again at this years Digital Past. Thursday morning offers the opportunity to get to grips with LiDAR, laser scanning or Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in hands-on workshops, learn about audio-trails and latest developments of the Peoples Collection Wales and much more.</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://hypermedia.research.glam.ac.uk/kos/STELLAR/" target="_blank">STELLAR</a> - Ceri Binding of the University of Glamorgan will lead a workshop to explain the technologies and demonstrate new tools for non-specialist users to map and extract their own archaeological datasets.</span> </li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Unmanned Aerial Vehicles -</span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Peter Holland and Jared Pogmore from <a href="http://www.korecgroup.com/" target="_blank">Korec</a> will be demonstrating UAV's and dicussing their use for heritage sites.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial;">Tech on the Trail: <a href="http://monmouthpedia.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Monmouthpedia</a> - Michael Booth of Monmouth CC will lead a walk around the town, showing the QR trail and discussing the practical pro's and cons' of the Monmouthpedia project.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial;">Heritage Lottery Funding - Stepehn Barlow will discuss the range of funding streams available from the <a href="http://www.hlf.org.uk/Pages/Home.aspx" target="_blank">HLF</a> for heritage projects, focusing particularly on their <a href="http://www.hlf.org.uk/news/Pages/HLFannouncesnewcommitmenttodigitalheritage.aspx" target="_blank">new policy</a> for making content digitally available.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.peoplescollectionwales.co.uk/" target="_blank">People's Collection Wales</a> - Tom Pert of the Royal Commission and Carys Morgan, National Library Wales, will be giving updates on the Peoples Collection and demonstrating how to make your data accessiable via the PCW website.</span></li>
<li> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Audiotrails - Dan Boys of <a href="http://www.audiotrails.co.uk/" target="_blank">Audio Trails Ltd</a> will</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> lead people step by step through the process of commissioning audio trails and e-trails.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Located at the ancient cross roads of Ireland, where the east-west running 'Eiscir Riada' meets the North-South River Shannon, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clonmacnoise" target="_blank">Clonmacnoise</a> can be claimed as Ireland first city. Established as a monastery by St Ciaran in the 7th century, a settlement grew up whicih reached its height between the 9th and 12th centuries, but was subsequent crushed by Cromwellian forces in the 16th century.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"> Click for the <a href="http://digitalpast2013.blogspot.co.uk/p/speakers_9.html" target="_blank">full abstract</a>. </span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07060966265681043223noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8818610488597909953.post-29405546343861771312013-01-24T02:18:00.003-08:002013-01-24T02:18:45.057-08:00<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Enhancing the archaeological record</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With the large scale digitisation projects that are taking place, a vast amount of historic newsprint has become available online in the past decade, both from the UK and abroad. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These newpapers, dating back as far as 1720, are proving to have great potential as a source of archaeological and architectural information. Indepedent researcher Dr Stephen Briggs will be at Digital Past 2013 discussing the projects he has been carrying out in data-mining these newly accessiable sources, including the transcription of over 450 Bronze Age burial in Scotland, the publication of c.1400 'new' medieval and later coin hoards and the reassessment of the number of human bodies found in Irish peat bogs. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our agenda for the two days of Digital Past 2013 is now available. <a href="http://digitalpast2013.blogspot.co.uk/p/agenda_9.html" target="_blank">See agenda.</a></span><br />
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and digital media at http://www.raglan-history.org.uk/ working with youth
groups to digitise and catalogue over 800 historical photographs, maps, wills
and other documents, and the creation of digital stories<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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with long time residents. A CD was published including old photo's and video
records of elderly residents reflecting on the changes in Raglan Village in the
last century.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the past two years, the
Raglan History Detectives after school club has focused on learning history
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records and memories.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since its
establishment the wiki has had over 30,000 hits from around the world.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Gary Tuson of the Gwent Archives will be explaining the work of the Archive and Records Council Wales at this years Digital Past conference. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Since 2010 ARCW has been working on selecting tools and developing skills for digital preservation. Central to the work is the Open Archive Information System (OAIS) model. Often difficult to understand by those with non-specialist knowledge, the work of the ARCW Digital Preservation Trust has been to simplify this knowledge, work which has led to the creation of a consortium in Wales aiming to share knowledge and experience. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">ARCW has also been looking at the tools required to carry out Digital Preservation and providing the practical training and support in their use.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">For further details of the presentation go to the <a href="http://digitalpast2013.blogspot.co.uk/p/speakers_9.html" target="_blank">full abstract</a></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07060966265681043223noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8818610488597909953.post-54283252914017121022012-12-21T02:51:00.003-08:002012-12-21T03:07:15.283-08:00<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Through the Eye of the Robot</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Marek Ososinski, a KESS student at the <a href="http://www.aber.ac.uk/en/cs/" target="_blank">Computer Science Department</a>, Aberystwyth University will be presenting on his current research into</span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">automation in laser scanning. He will discuss the visual technology that can aid surveyors by allowing them to observe crude 3D representations of the environment and enable them to maximise their positioning of data capture instruments such as laser scanners. Issues of data representation and management will be discussed alongside the requirements for real-time reasonaing and visualisation for providing instant feedback. </span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07060966265681043223noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8818610488597909953.post-36554769604498339962012-12-14T02:57:00.000-08:002012-12-14T03:05:12.614-08:00<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">The digiDo Project</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><a href="http://yba.llgc.org.uk/en/index.html" target="_blank">WelshBiography Online</a> </span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">that holds approximately 5,000 biographies of eminent Welshmen/ women
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<b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><a href="http://welshjournals.llgc.org.uk/" target="_blank">Welsh Journals Online</a> </span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">which
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to a selection of 50 modern periodicals and 300 historical titles in both Welsh
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from the 18<span style="font-size: small;"><sup>th</sup> and 19<sup>th</sup></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/null" name="_Toc292702290"></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Toc292702290;"> centuries.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span><br />
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is<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>the National Library of Wales’
entire holdings of pre-1910 Welsh newspapers: a magnificent <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">resource</span> of everyday knowledge
estimated to contain over 1 million pages and 200 newspaper titles covering
every corner of Wales.</span></span><br />
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manuscripts, wills, archives, maps, paintings, photographs and drawings have
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dr Jones will be speaking about the process of scanning, ocr'ing, metadata, data management and data dissemination. For the full abstract go to our </span><a href="http://digitalpast2013.blogspot.co.uk/p/speakers_9.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">speakers page</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.</span> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07060966265681043223noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8818610488597909953.post-66348646650306033032012-12-11T03:25:00.002-08:002012-12-11T07:53:30.120-08:00<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We are pleased to be able to announce that Chris Walker of </span><a href="http://www.brightwhiteltd.co.uk/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bright White Ltd</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> will be giving a presentation on the development of the new </span><a href="http://www.brightwhiteltd.co.uk/bannockburn.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Battle of Bannockburn Centre</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> at Digital Past 2013. Battle sites are rich in history but poor in artefacts, so in order to tell the story of the battle, Bright White, in conjunction with the Digital Design Studio at Glasgow School of Art, are creating a fully digital, historically accurate, interactive experience like no other - the Prepare for Battle area. The abstract will be available on this site soon.</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07060966265681043223noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8818610488597909953.post-45170129314367403842012-12-03T06:05:00.000-08:002012-12-03T06:05:35.710-08:00<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Smartphones - the future of heritage interpretation?</span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Andrew Kerry-Bedell of <a href="http://www.kbstconsulting.co.uk/KBC/moreclients.htm" target="_blank">KB consultants</a> and <a href="http://www.kbstconsulting.co.uk/QR/index.htm" target="_blank">IT's in Conservation</a> will be at Digital Past 2013 to talk about the use of smartphone technology in providing mobile interpretation to audiences at heritage sites. The key points of Andrew's paper will be: </span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07060966265681043223noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8818610488597909953.post-36106996718354112542012-11-29T07:33:00.002-08:002012-11-29T07:48:51.705-08:00<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><strong>Maritime Visualisation: The Scapa Flow project</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mike Postons, director at <a href="http://3deepmedia.co.uk/" target="_blank">3Deep Media</a> is confirmed as a keynote speaker at Digital Past 2013. Mike will be talking about developments in digital recording and modelling of underwater heritage sites, and the public outputs that can be considered in terms of visualisation. One of the projects that will be showcased is the exemplar <a href="http://3deepmedia.co.uk/services.php" target="_blank">Scapa Flow Historic Wreck Site</a>, showing how mapping and modelling of historic wrecks can be used in exciting public interest in maritime heritage.</span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales are pleased to be able to annonuce that Justin Albert, Director of the National Trust Wales will be opening the 2013 Digital Past conference.</span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Drawing on his experience both at the National Trust and National Geographic, Justin will be </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">discussing strategies for digital communication and interpretation within heritage tourism.</span> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07060966265681043223noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8818610488597909953.post-49307021898619512292012-08-09T04:55:00.000-07:002012-08-09T05:25:22.044-07:00<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales </span><span style="font-size: large;">invites you to attend a forthcoming conference at The Shire Hall, Monmouth:</span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Digital Past 2013</span><span style="font-size: large;"> - </span></b><b style="font-size: x-large;">New technologies in heritage, interpretation & outreach</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Using this blog you can learn more about Digital Past 2013 and keep up to date with the latest #DigitalPast tweets on the <b><a href="http://digitalpast2013.blogspot.com/p/tweets.html">Comment</a></b> page.</span></span>Trompethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08201302493198063087noreply@blogger.com0