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Louise Barker & David Thomas, Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales
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TERRESTRIAL LASER SCANNING
Vivian Slate Quarry, Llanberis
Ystrad Einion Metal Mine, Ceredigion. Underground water wheel.
Key Themes/Site Types: • Submerged Palaeolandscapes (30)• Shipwrecks (5317)• Downed Aircraft (803)• Humanly-defined seascapes (87)
(e.g. traditional fishing grounds)• Intertidal Archaeology (154)
8% of total records within the NMRW
NMRW Maritime Record: 5 Year Programme
The wreck is reported to have been identified in 2004. The full character and extent of archaeological remains is presently unknown.
Event and Historical Information:The SAINT JACQUES was a steel-hulled steamship built by Atel. & Ch. De France, Dunkirk, in 1909. It was carrying a cargo of coal from Barry to Bizerte under the command of master H Hauville, when it was torpedoed by the German submarine UC51 on 15 September 1917. The ship sank some 5 miles off St Ann's Head.
Maritime Officer, RCAHMW, April 2008.
Archaeological remains associated with the loss of this vessel are not confirmed as present at this location, but may be in the vicinity.
Event and Historical Information:The PETER VARKEVISSER was a 69nt wooden sloop built in 1875. At time of loss on 13 January 1896, the vessel was carrying roofing slates from Porthmadoc to Cardiff, It was caught by a east-southeasterly force 10 gale and foundered in St Tudwal’s Roads.
Maritime Officer, RCAHMW, April 2010.
Side Scan Sonar Imagery from the Cadw Coal and Slate Wrecks Project
Side scan sonar images of wreck sites captured during Cadw-funded marine geophysical surveyData archived with National Monuments Record of Wales by Wessex Archaeology
Imaging the Seabed....
Aspirations for the Future....
Multi-beam SonarSide Scan SonarLIDAR in close inshore areas
Gorffennol DigidolDigital Past 2012
Sharing Our Digital Past: Digital innovation at the Royal Commission
The Challenges
•Book Publication•Website•On-line Database•Blog•Social Media•Public Engagement•Enquiries
•Storage•Support•Digital Preservation•Copyright•Standards•Sustainability and re-use
• Digital Photography• Laser Scanning• Total Station• Point Cloud• GPS• LiDAR• Sonar
Storage and Support
Challenges
Keeping pace with change
Real cost of storage
Unequal use of technology across the organisation
Background
Ever expanding need for storage
Increased reliance on complex IT
Solutions
Creative options for storage
Be selective
Careful IT Management
Training and spread of skills
Benefits
IT not a bottleneck for innovation
Whole organisation benefits and takes part
Gorffennol DigidolDigital Past 2012
Digital Preservation and Copyright
Challenges
Perceptions about preservation of digital material
Heavy staff input to complex process
Legal framework
Background
Almost all output of the Royal Commission is now digital
Need to secure long term future of digital products
Solutions
Trusted Digital Repository
UK wide solution
Proper licensing and accession documentation
Benefits
Preservation of record for perpetuity
Re-use of records in many ways
Gorffennol DigidolDigital Past 2012
Gorffennol DigidolDigital Past 2012
Information Standards and Sustainability
Challenges
Many different and developing standards
How to share the information
Technology for technology’s sake
Background
Very diverse sector with lots of opportunities for new approaches and techniques
Need a consistent approach
Solutions
Establish or share standards
Agreement on standards at start of work
Priority on interpretation and dissemination
Benefits
Interoperability within and outside the sector
Sustainability
Building systems and techniques for the future
keep pace with innovation creativity not stifled solutions rolled out across
whole organisation innovation part of the whole organisation record preserved for
perpetuity records re-used legally clear information re-used in many ways
interoperable information sustainable development proper use of resources
building systems and techniques for the future
Gorffennol DigidolDigital Past 2012
storage costs back-up costs environment provision network Load can’t keep pace with change IT support un-equal
use of technology across the organisation different perceptions complex preservation process heavy staff input data migration
burden proprietorial products complexity of the copyright law need to comply
creative commons orphaned works complex standards not easy to understand slow
down progress use of technology for
technology’s sake change for change’s sake
PRESENTING OUR PAST
Ladelling molten copper in the smelting sheds at Hafod Copperworks, Swansea. Still from an animation
3D wireframe of Denbigh Shire-hall in AutoCAD
Available for download from our website & through Coflein.
Digitisation of our entire back catalogue. Available soon for download
READING THE FUTURE
3D Studio Max cutaway model showing the construction of the Leighton Farm piggery.
INTERPRETATION & PRESENTATION
Tyddyn Llwydion, Llanrhaeadr-ym-mochnant, Powys
Pontcysyllte Aqueduct. Understanding the construction
The Final Product – Pontcysyllte Aqueduct Animation
ANIMATION
‘The Bridge’ by Jonah Jones
Bardsey IslandNannerth-ganol
Beupre
Hafod Copperworks, Swansea
Ystrad Einion Metal Mine, Ceredigion