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Most Recent CHI Announcement

June 2008,

Dear Friends and Supporters,

As summer arrives, Cultural Heritage Imaging (CHI) staff are working on a variety of projects to help preserve cultural heritage and share knowledge globally.

Leading the Way in Best Practices

Stay in touch with the busy CHI team by visiting the events page for the latest conference, paper, and presentation updates. CHI’s Featured Publications page is another great source of information on recent CHI research and accomplishments.

Open Source Archaeology. CHI Executive Director Carla Schroer delivered her workshop, “Open Archaeology: Fundamentals of Intellectual Property and Open Source,” at the Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology conference (CAA 2008).

View presentation slides and references on the Featured Publication page. Carla also presents this workshop at the World Archaeological Congress (WAC) in July.

Eurographics Tutorial Shines. A fantastic cultural heritage and natural sciences tutorial compiled by CHI President Mark Mudge and an international panel of experts captured strong interest at Eurographics 2008.

Learn more about the tutorial, “Image-Based Empirical Information Acquisition, Scientific Reliability, and Long-Term Digital Preservation for the Natural Sciences and Cultural Heritage,” on the Featured Publication page.


Spreading the Word

Project Concludes With a WAM!The CHI team completed a successful training program in digital cultural heritage techniques at the Worcester Art Museum (WAM) in Massachusetts in May.

Be the first to see the elegant sculptural lines of WAM’s new CHI-constructed lighting array in the photo gallery. CHI and WAM staff used the new gear to show fine surface details of paintings, paper, jade and other objects.

National Treasure 3: Library of Congress. CHI specialists met in May with experts from the US Library of Congress’ Preservation Research and Testing Division to discuss imaging possibilities at the library.

The Power of Portugal. In July, CHI participates in an illuminating workshop for museum staff and archaeologists, in Braga, Portugal, entitled “Scientifically Reliable Digital Imaging for Documentation, Public Access and Conservation”.

Summer in the Ukraine. Later this summer, CHI joins forces with the University of Texas, Institute of Classical Archaeology to document an ancient Greek colony on the Crimean peninsula using the latest digital cultural heritage imaging techniques. During a two-week visit, CHI, plans to document artifacts and inscriptions at the Chersonesos site, while training the local Ukrainian team in the techniques.

Supporting CHI This Summer


The CHI team appreciates how much you have helped us to develop and deploy the solutions and training that are helping cultural heritage workers around the world save history. Any support you can give goes directly to developing tools that preserve, document and share humanity’s legacy and getting those tools into hands that can use them. Please visit our Support Us page at www.c-h-i.org and click on the link that inspires you the most.