Joe Moore, retired photographer, is shedding light on California’s contradictory history. With a 132k dollar grant administered by the state library, Joe, librarians and archivists are gathering letters, family documents, court records, songs and photographs, about 800 documents, for an internet archive about slavery in California – the state that likes to think it entered…
media matters
Going walkabout – virtually?
Archaeology walkabouts – announced last month from ADS in the UK – Archaeology Data Service and University of Leicester. The “Virtual Walkabout” archives contain a series of still, 2-dimensional photographic images that collectively try to express the experience of walking round an archaeological site or monument. The images are presented in their Virtual order from…
archaeological information
The latest issue of Internet Archaeology, just out, is on the subject of archaeological informatics. I went to the web site with great anticipation. My kind of thing, I thought – new media and digital archaeology. What a disappointment! It was all about the usual themes of building information archives, facilitating access, computation, and Geographic…
sensory memory
The British Library has just launched a new web site devoted to the accents and dialects of the north of England, fast disappearing. Collect Britain, putting history in place. You can listen to recordings made from the 1950s of people talking about everyday life. They are saturated in locality. And just the sounds, intonation, cadence…
Phluzein
Anders Bell at Phluzein has pointed out that his blog has no affliation with the Cotsen Institute. I had made the association through the RSS feed, so I went to have a proper look. It’s quite a nice miscellany about various archaeological news items.
elements of design – digital media
Sam and I have been working again on the eigenvectors paper – trying to get an analytical hold on the design principles that operate on (digital) media and mediation. see my comments on digital humanities last year Archaeology – looking at the design of things, in time, history, in relation to materiality. Made some breakthroughs…
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