Digital Documentation and Representation of Cultural Heritage
This summer 2008 Learn, plan and create the public interpretation of the san francisco bay area past
A UC Berkeley Summer Sessions residential course held in the Presidio of San Francisco
At the end of the course, the student should be able to:
•Demonstrate a critical understanding of the research, interpretation, and concepts of site management of the San Francisco Presidio in the context of the worldwide management of cultural heritage sites and landscapes
•Critically evaluate site management plans of cultural heritage sites and landscapes in terms of movement across them by visitors and possible paths to visitor interpretations.
•Locate, utilize and cite the basic sources including library, internet and professional organizations for the course themes
•Understand and apply the concepts and rules of intellectual property in the context of re-purposing and sharing of data
•Understand the concepts of the preservation, management, and archiving of digital data.
•Have gained an in-depth familiarity with the history of the San Francisco Presidio, specifically the El Presidio fort and deAnza trail, and the traditional and planned presentation of the sites in the Levantar Project
•Have carried out detailed research and documentation of one of the trails chosen for interpretation.
•Have gained skill and experience in one technique of digital documentation of heritage sites and applied this to one of the trails chosen for interpretation of the El Presidio fort and deAnza trail
•Collaborate to produce a working plan for an interpretive trail chosen for interpretation of the El Presidio fort and deAnza trail, providing documentation and a set of alternative plans for the installation of a digitally remediated walk .
•Collaborate to produce a website to share the plan with the public