Tag Archives: Cultural Heritage

Northwestern Documentary Premieres

By Harlan Wallach on 6 Mar 2012 – 10:20 am
Location: (-0° 0' 0"S x 0° 0' 0"E)

March 7, 2012, 4PM, “Controlling the Fire: The value of the bead in Ghana” will have it’s premiere Northwestern screening. This was a project co-produced by NUIT with faculty from Anthropology and History. Willian Gblerkpor, one of the featured scholars in the film will add a commentary after the film, as will other academic experts. [...]

Evanston in 1876

By Harlan Wallach on 28 Jul 2009 – 11:13 am
Location: (-0° 0' 0"S x 0° 0' 0"E)

As part of our ongoing work with the Northwestern University Archives and Northwestern University Library Digital Collections we get the opportunity to do some really great digitization projects. This was a single one off project, but the digitized object is one of very interesting historical significance to Evanston, the location of one of the NU [...]

Lights to Servers

By NUAMPS on 6 Jun 2009 – 4:47 am
Location: (40° 8' 14"N x 94° 39' 48"E)

We’ve just completed our second day of training at the Dunhuang Academy. Today’s topics covered lighting, data management, and server. Jim began the day with a presentation which carried basic lighting topics from yesterday into a more detailed discussion of lighting techniques particular to the cave photography. After lunch I presented on data management techniques [...]

We start three days of classroom instruction

By Harlan Wallach on 5 Jun 2009 – 1:36 am
Location: (40° 2' 47"N x 94° 48' 39"E)

This is a “blended”  demonstration,  a graphical depiction of lenses and frames based on different lenses on similar camera setups, and a performed demonstration in front of the screen using the instructors, to depict the camera, (Jim) a foreground sculpture (Stef), and the mural (Chris). This team will go to any length to help make [...]

Breakfast on the outside, dinner on the inside

By Stefani Foster on 1 Aug 2008 – 10:32 am
Location: (-0° 0' 0"S x 0° 0' 0"E)

    Harlan and I returned from our nine-day planning grant trip to Dunhuang, in Gansu Province in western China, on Tuesday.  It was a very successful trip, filled with many meetings with our friends at the Dunhuang Academy.  If all goes well, we will be looking forward to continuing our work with the Academy in [...]

Plone Symposium East 2008 Day 2

By NUAMPS on 16 Mar 2008 – 5:38 pm
Location: (-0° 0' 0"S x 0° 0' 0"E)

It’s funny how seemingly common I think my name is but often gets incorrectly listed. In all fairness my name tag was correct, but it’s things like this that add to the ever-increasing list of pseudo-nicknames friends, co-workers, and other colleagues bestow upon me (see Fernando, Jfern, Ferny, etc.). Eric gave a great talk on [...]

Plone Symposium East 2008 Day 1

By NUAMPS on 12 Mar 2008 – 10:50 pm
Location: (-0° 0' 0"S x 0° 0' 0"E)

“This is easily the Plone tool of the symposium.” — overheard from fellow attendee after Jonathan Smith’s presentation on High Resolution Image Viewing and Annotation Tools for Plone I am blogging from my Hotel Room at the Nittany Lion Inn, having completed the first day of the 2008 Plone Symposium East. This is the first [...]

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