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RTI workshops in Somerset

The Re-reading the British Memorial project team are going to be running RTI workshops as part of the Festival of British Archaeology in Somerset from the 16th to the 20th July. In Holcombe, Somerset, members of the team will be working alongside Wessex Archaeology, the Churches Conservation Trust, Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society, Somerset County Council. Continue reading →

AHRC RTISAD project legacy – update one year on

It has now been a year since the AHRC RTISAD project officially ended. We have been busy developing our RTI and related imaging facilities here at Southampton, training new staff and students, continuing our outreach activities and undertaking research and consultancy projects. As we proposed in the application we have put in place a funding system that allows us to charge where appropriate at cost for use of our imaging facilities and staff. Continue reading →

Spreading the word about CAA and ACRG

Few days ago we hold a seminar session about the CAA2012 in University of Tartu, Estonia. There were  five of us from Estonia participating CAA conference this year, so we decided to give a highlight of interesting papers and share the conference experience with Estonian archaeological community. We got full seminar room, and not only from archaeology. Continue reading →

GigaPan imaging

The Archaeological Computing Research Group have begun to take advantage of GigaPan imaging within our analysis of archaeological datasets. GigaPan imaging offers the first solution for shooting, viewing and exploring high-resolution panoramic images in a single system, in other words, we are able to incorporate a number of images within one single crisp and vivid panorama. GigaPan imaging can be used in relation with a number of different datasets. Continue reading →

#caasoton finished

Tomorrow is the excursions day at #caasoton so the main conference has finished. It has been an extraordinary few days. Overwhelmingly the response to the conference has been very positive, and delegates seemed happy with the many different things we tried. From the videos to the website to the social media to the rather tasty selection of pastries :-) We have all met some fantastic people over the last four days and we wish all of them a safe journey home. Continue reading →

CAA2012 workshops

The first day of CAA2012 has been a great success. Lots of happy people at the workshops and lots of happy online chatter. The plenaries are about to begin and then its the opening reception, first at Highfield and then in the Old Town. Add your photos to our Flickr group: http://www.flickr. Continue reading →

CAA2012 starts in 12 hours

Well I can't quite believe it but CAA2012 is finally here. We first proposed Southampton as the venue for the conference early in 2009, and now I am watching the #caasoton tweets as people arrive, check in, find the nearest pub and get on with conference fun. Tim Sly and I are unbelievably grateful to everyone here who has put in so much effort to make this happen. Some of them are named in the guide. Continue reading →

Computationally Intensive Imaging

I gave a talk on humanities imaging interests at the Computationally Intensive Imaging USRG meeting today. We discussed possibilities for supercomputing based visualisation, and the new e-infrastructure south consortium. We also talked about the results from various Humanities trials of the mu-Vis Centre's CT facilities, and some photographic imaging such as RTI. Continue reading →

CAA2012 papers and posters

I have been going through the timetable for CAA2012 and making a note of the papers and posters I am involved with, mostly as a means to make sure I don't miss anything :-) I am getting really excited about next week. A partial list via sched.org is available at http://caaconference2012.sched.org/?s=Graeme+Earl Leif Isaksen kicks everything off on Tuesday 27th in the 9am session. He is talking about "Archaeology and the Semantic Webs". Continue reading →

CAA2012 only a couple of weeks away

Things are hotting up in the preparations for CAA2012 in Southampton. Everything kicks off on the 26th March with the workshops. Looking at the latest figures we have more than 400 delegates signed up and the papers and posters are looking great. I know there are some exciting exhibitions in the pipeline too. Having organised it up until 1 February when I went on sabbatical the conference is now in Tim Sly's hands. Continue reading →