UPDATED Practical use of the Digital Lab Notebook: Create Reusable Digital Representations with High Quality Metadata
Instructors: Carla Schroer and Mark Mudge, Cultural Heritage Imaging
Level: Introductory
Duration: 4 hours, half hour break from 12:15 to 12:45 as well as two 15-minute breaks
Course Date: Wednesday 9 June
Course Time:
New York: 10:00 - 15:00
Paris: 16:00 - 21:00
Prerequisites: No prerequisites
Benefits:
This course enables the attendee to:
- Learn about the open source Digital Lab Notebook (DLN) and how archiving and reuse requirements are driving its adoption.
- Learn how to use DLN in an RTI, photogrammetry, or scientific photography-based imaging practice.
- Learn about the software tool chain for collecting and validating metadata about image sequences, computational processing and organization of data, metadata, and processed work products into internal standards-based, archival Submission Information Packets for archival deposit.
- Have an opportunity for hands-on practice with the updated DLN tools (planned release in Spring 2021) 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).
Intended Audience: Museum, library, historic site, archive, and archaeology professionals with an interest in scientific computational photography and archival practices. Anyone from novice to expert is welcome.
Course Description:
The course provides lectures, demonstrations, and discussion. This includes hands-on practice with software called the Digital Lab Notebook (DLN) (new release planned for Spring 2021).
We begin with a high level overview of RTI and photogrammetry so that attendees understand the types of image sets and work products that are managed by the DLN tool.
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 and other widely used metadata formats.
The full DLN workflow is demonstrated, and attendees are able to practice with example data during the course.
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 and photogrammetry. She also leads CHI’s software development activities. She 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 sculptor, 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).
Cost:
Member $ 135
Non Member $ 150
Student $ 75
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