At the heart of networks, institutions, programs and projects are people engaged with actions and agendas that traverse the boundaries of any one organization. Within these ‘virtual communities’ of human effort and achievement, we converge to take on the recurring and emerging challenges or opportunities of cultural heritage in the digital age, often without the full appreciation of other activities that may be happening in parallel. This forum aims to broaden our virtual community awareness through highlighting success stories and lessons learned in digital heritage as shared by the individuals involved in their founding, development and evolution.
I would suggest that this forum represents a chance to discuss the achievements and the difficulties in digital heritage from the perspective of organizational, project and individual efforts and interests. We can organize the four hours in any number of ways, but let me forward just two of many possible constructs:
Multi-scalar: It would be very interesting to have examples from organizations (WAC, AAI, Okapi, ADS, EPOCH, CHI, CAA-NA, Presidio, CIDOC-CRM), differentiate this from programs that may involve many organizations or individuals (Digital Nineveh Archive, Aluka, Open Context, ArchaeoInformatics, MATRIX), and individual projects that may involve very small groups of people who are focused on a specific goal.
Temporal: We can also think of the efforts in terms of lessons learned from completed or ending efforts (EPOCH, Remixing Catalhoyuk, MATRIX, FIPSE), current engagements (CHI, ADS, Open Context) and future possibilities (Earthmine, CAA-NA, Presidio Archaeology Program). In other words, we can discuss things that have worked and didn’t from past projects, share what we are up to now and dream of converging and wondrous futures.
Suggested participants:
Julian Richards – Archaeology Data Service, York University
Claire Smith – World Archaeological Congress
Jeff Clark: Computers Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology, North America (CAA-NA)
Cinzia Perlingieri – European Research Network of Excellence in Open Cultural Heritage (EPOCH)
Rahim Rajan – Aluka Project
Eric Kansa, Sarah Kansa – Alexandria Archive Institute, Open Context
Sannie Osborn, Liz Clevenger, Eric Blind, Katie Ahern – Presidio Trust Archaeology Program
Eleanor Wilkinson – Digital Nineveh Archive
Noah Wittman – Open Knowledge and the Public Interest (Okapi), Remixing Catalhoyuk
Mark Mudge, Carla Schroer – Cultural Heritage Imaging
Steve Stead, Martin Doerr – CIDOC-CRM
Michael Black, Patrick Schmitz – Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology / Delphi project
Elizabeth Lee, John Ristevski – CyArk High Definition Heritage Network, Earthmine
Tyler Bell – Oxford ArchDigital, Yahoo
Anne Pyburn – Making Archaeology Relevant in the 21st Century (MATRIX)
Ruth Tringham, Steve Mills, Colleen Morgan, Michael Ashley – Remediated Places, Remixing Catalhoyuk
Jeanne Lopiparo – Crafting Cosmos, AnthroCommons, OKAPI DIY
Patrick McGrath, Chris Hoffman – UC Berkeley Media Vault Program / Digital Heritage Informatics
