Instructors: Carla Schroer and Mark Mudge, Cultural Heritage Imaging
Level: Intermediate
Duration: 2 hours
Course Date/Time: Monday, June 19 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM

Benefits:
This course enables the attendee to:

• Take a deep dive with the Digital Lab Notebook (DLN) software.
• Learn how to use it in scientific photography-based imaging practices including photogrammetry, Reflectance Transformation Imaging, (RTI), spectral imaging, or any documentary image set.
• Learn how to collect and validate metadata about image sequences, record computational processing and processed work products and organize all this information into international standards-based, archival Submission Information Packets for archival deposit.
• Provide an opportunity for hands-on practice with the updated DLN using provided example data. Participants will be able to download the software prior to the course. The open-source software runs on both Mac and Windows PCs.

Course Description:
The short course includes demonstrations and time for interactive hands-on practice with the open source Digital Lab Notebook (DLN) software. (V1.0 shipped in summer 2022). The focus will be hands on-use of the DLN to collect metadata about imaging projects and to produce Submission Information Packages (SIPs) ready for archival ingestion. Participants can download the software to their laptops prior to the course, and follow along by working with and adding to example data provided for the course. The DLN serves the same function as a written scientist’s lab notebook, enabling inspection and reuse by others. The software is designed for RTI, photogrammetry, multi-spectral, and documentary photo sequences. The DLN records the capture context for photographic image sequences, validates the data, reports data processing workflows, and provides archival preparation and packaging of the data, finished work products, and associated metadata. The archived metadata is automatically translated into CIDOC/CRM Mapped Linked Data, LIDO, and Dublin Core as well as producing a human readable HTML report. SIPs can be produced in the METS or Bagit formats.

Intended Audience:
Museum, library, historic site, archive, and archaeology professionals with an interest in scientific computational photography and archival practices. There are no prerequisites. Anyone from novice to expert is welcome.

Carla Schroer is a co-founder and director of Cultural Heritage Imaging (CHI) a non-profit corporation that develops and implements imaging technologies for cultural heritage and scientific research. Schroer leads the training programs at CHI, along with working on field capture projects with reflectance transformation imaging (RTI) and photogrammetry. She also leads CHI’s software development activities. Schroer spent 20 years in the commercial software industry, managing and directing a wide range of software development projects.

Mark Mudge is president and co-founder of Cultural Heritage Imaging. He has a BA in philosophy, worked as a professional bronze sculpto,r and has worked in 3D imaging for 30 years. He is co-inventor, with Tom Malzbender, of the Highlight Reflectance Transformation Imaging technique. He serves on the International Council of Museums’ Documentation Committee’s CRMsig (CIDOC/CRM).