PhD Positions in Creative Design - Lancaster, UK, and Europe
Deadline: 15 September 2008
Source: Porto, 30 August 2008
Submitted by Luis Teixeira

Network Coordinator: Lancaster University, UK

PARTNERS
- Eindhoven University of Technology in The Netherlands
- Copenhagen Business School in Denmark
- University of Milan in Italy
- The Portuguese Catholic University in Portugal [read more...]

The Research Centre of Science and Technology in the Arts of the Portuguese Catholic University (UCP-CITAR), in Porto, Portugal, seeks two candidates with Ph.D. in one of following fields: Visual Arts, Electronic Arts and Multimedia, Design Studies, Interactive/Multimedia Design or in similar areas. [read more...]

Registration is now open for the 2008 Materialise Innovation Forum which will be held in Leuven, Belgium on September 17th and 18th for the second consecutive year. The Materialise Innovation Forum is a two day conference focusing on software solutions for RP&M and CAE professionals. [read more...]

In the EARSEL Symposium held in Bozen on June 1-6, 2007, a new Special Interest Group (SIG), on Remote Sensing for Archaeology and Cultural Heritage (Re.Se.Ar.C.H.) was launched. [read more...]

The Archaeology Data Service (ADS) has a vacancy for a Curatorial Officer for a fixed term of 9 months to cover a maternity leave, commencing August 2008. You should have a first degree and postgraduate qualification, at least one of which should be in archaeology, and you should possess an exceptionally high level of ICT skills.

Salary will be £21,681 per annum. [read more...]

Please join us on Friday, June 13th at 11:00AM for an open house at the El
Presidio of San Francisco. We will demonstrate the digital interpretive
trail created by the University of California, Berkeley class, Digital
Documentation and Representation in Archaeology. We will be walking
around the footprint of the 1790 fort and visiting El Polin Springs, home [read more...]

From the NEH: "The NEH's Office of Digital Humanities (ODH) recently launched a Humanities High Performance Computing (HHPC) initiative. As part of this initiative we're offering several grant programs and other opportunities to provide time on the U.S. Department of Energy's high performance computers, as well as grant money and training. [read more...]

"Digitizing Early Material Culture: from Antiquity to Modernity" will be held in conjunction with CaSTA (the Canadian Symposium on Text Analysis) 2008: New Directions in Text Analysis

University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, 16-18 October 2008

"Digitizing Early Material Culture: from Antiquity to Modernity" will feature guest speakers: [read more...]

This presentation by Ryan Bauman (University of Kentucky) is part of the Digital Classicist Work-in-Progress seminars.

Fridays at 16:30 in NG16, Senate House, Malet St, London, WC1E 7HU (June 20th, July 4th-18th seminars in room B3, Stewart House) (June 27th seminar room 218, Chadwick Bdg, UCL, Gower Street)

**ALL WELCOME** [read more...]

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Wednesday 14 May 2008
9am-3pm (including refreshments. Lunch sponsored by LEICA Geosystems)

Design Centre, University of Birmingham
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What will you learn from this event? [read more...]

Join Paul Burrows' You Tube group for archaeology and heritage survey- post your videos, comment and discuss techniques.

http://www.youtube.com/group/3dlaserscanning

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3D Laser Scanning: an open, honest forum - feel free to comment. Regards, Paul

* Do you want to help shape the future of teaching and research with geospatial data?
* Are geospatial resources critical to your research or teaching?
* Is 'where' things happen important to you? [read more...]

At the upcoming World Archaeological Congress (WAC) to be held in Dublin members of the Discovery Programme, in association with international partners, are hosting of a number of sessions across a range of themes.

WAC-6 Session: Out of the shadows - 3D capture technology in Archaeology [read more...]

A session at CAA2008, Budapest, Hungary [read more...]

36th Annual Conference on Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology

On the Road to Reconstructing the Past

Budapest, 2-6 April 2008

Invitation [read more...]

A conference on 3D Colour Laser Scanning will be held at UCL on the 27th and 28th of March 2008. Proposals are invited for contributions to the conference. The proposals, in the form of extended abstracts, should focus on one of the following main themes:
1. 3D scanning in Education and Interpretation
2. 3D scanning in Display and Exhibition
3. 3D scanning in Conservation. [read more...]

The following article will probably not be exciting news for most people here, but it may at least show you how a "magazine that treats science as natural part of culture" deals with remote sensing as a tool for archaeologists: [read more...]

The 1st Annual Antiquist Workshop will be hosted at Southampton University Archaeology Department in April 2008. The purpose of the Workshop is to provide postgraduate students in Archaeological Informatics and associated disciplines with the opportunity to:

- Broaden their skill base with a short series of practical seminars focusing on real-world applications of IT in archaeology [read more...]

Research Summary: Keiss Foreshore, Caithness [read more...]

I have just been forwarded the following email, which not only archaeologists may be interested in:

The Department of Archaeology and the School of Systems Engineering at the University of Reading (in collaboration with the School of Library, Archive and Information Studies, UCL) invite you to look at the website for the Virtual Environments for Research in Archaeology project (VERA) at [read more...]

Forum members may be interested to know that the final report of the AHDS Big Data Project has been released and is available for download from the AHDS website:

http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/project/bigdata/

From September 1st - October 13th I will be taking part in a 3D documentation project at World Heritage Site Merv, Turkmenistan. ([[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merv|Merv on Wikipedia]]). The project is being conducted by the Institute of Archaeology (IoA) at University College London's (UCL) [[http://www.ucl.ac.uk/merv/|Ancient Merv Project]]. [read more...]

From September 1st - October 13th I will be taking part in a 3D documentation project at World Heritage Site Merv, Turkmenistan. ([[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merv|Merv on Wikipedia]]). The project is being conducted by the Institute of Archaeology (IoA) at University College London's (UCL) [[http://www.ucl.ac.uk/merv/|Ancient Merv Project]]. [read more...]

Paul Bryan recently posted the link to the recently published English Heritage guidance note '3D Laser Scanning for Heritage' and invited forum members to offer their comments. [read more...]

This forum aims to provide a means of communication for those working in the heritage sector and making use of laser scanning and other 3D recording techniques. [read more...]

Digital Classicist/Institute of Classical Studies Work in Progress Seminar, Summer 2007

Stuart Dunn (King's College London) [read more...]