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Blogs written in the 2011 to 2014 phase of Soton DH

Ancient and modern. Digital ways of learning about a medieval town

I met an enthusiast for using digital technology to bring medieval literature and culture to wider audiences, who has joined us in Humanities at Southampton. Professor of English Catherine Clarke is helping local people and visitors understand more aboutChesterin medieval times – through digital mapping tools and new media. “The town has always celebrated its Roman history, and now we’re helping to explore its rich medieval heritage,” she says. Continue reading →

PARNASSUS meeting

Had a great day today at the RCUK Science and Heritage PARNASSUS project meeting at Winchester School of Art. We started with a tour of the various sites in Winchester studied by the project. We then had presentations on the archaeological recording work completed to date, engineering monitoring and analyses of the study buildings and materials, and a presentation on the flood simulation work. Lots of interesting work developing in the area of flood risk to cultural heritage. Continue reading →

JISC RedFeather project funded

David Millard's blog describes a new project that is going to involve collaboration with sotonDH and the Archaeological Computing Research Group: "RedFeather (Resource Exhibition and Discovery) is a proposed lightweight repository server-side script that fosters best practice for Open Educational Resources (OER), it can be dropped into any website with PHP, and which enables appropriate metadata to be assigned to resources, creates views in multiple formats (including HTML with in-browser... Continue reading →

Portus Modelling Workshop

As part of the Portus project we held a workshop today to discuss progress on the 3d recording and modelling of some of the Portus buildings. We concentrated on the Navalia and the Grandi Magazzini di Settimio Severo today. Simon Keay started by talking about the current state of archaeological knowledge concerning these buildings, the history of research and the interpretations growing from our project. Continue reading →