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
Assignments, products, and Evaluation
This course is an inquiry-based field and lab course and has no mid-term or final exam. To a large extent, students are responsible for their own learning, although we might have informal in-class tests to make sure the reading is not too much for you and that you have been able to both do it and make sense of it.
The main basis for your grade in the course is participation as a member of a single production team to design and provide documentation for a modular set of interpretive trails around/across/through/within the hidden/buried El Presidio, continuing along the path from El Presidio to the Mission de San Francisco (Lovers’ Lane and Tennessee Hollow), representing the Early Colonial period at the San Francisco Presidio.
The final outcome of the course consists of four products:
1. Databases of geospatially located and "relocated" media (databases will be created using Filemaker, Portfolio, GoogleEarth, Media --self contained media asssets)
2. Project documentation of best practices
3. Maps of the trail(s)
4. A Sophie Book will be the collector of all the documentation produced during the course and will serve as a base for the final presentation of the results and products to the Archaeology Lab of the SF Presidio Trust.
Students will be assessed on the basis of a series of milestones leading towards the completion of this collaborative team project led by the instructional team comprising the design and full and detailed digital documentation.
Milestone 1: (Due Thursday 29 May) (10%) physical description, preliminary documentation (photography) and mapping of the walk
Milestone 2: (Due Monday, 2 June) (20%) storyboard for narratives and activities
related to the walk; based on documentary research
Milestone 3: (Due Wednesday, 4 June) (10%) presentation of preliminary design of the walk with narratives and activities and assets (with metadata)
Milestone 4: (Due Friday, 6 June) (20%) assets for the walk narratives and activities complete with metadata
Milestone 5: (Due Tuesday, 10 June) (20%) presentation of student contributions to the final draft of the detailed design of the walk, its narratives, activities, and assets in a format (Sophiebook) that is “installation-ready”
Milestone 6: (Due Friday, 13 June) (20%) public presentation and final production of trail Sophiebook with the “installation-ready” detailed design of the walk, its narratives, activities, and assets (with metadata).
