Sharing Our Digital Past. Digital Innovation at the Royal Commission (2 of 2)

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


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



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


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

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