Historical Material

Historical Archaeology and the Importance of Material Things

Providing Metadata to Historical Material on Viewer Application iPalletnexus

The iPalletnexus development group has currently developed a viewer application, iPalletnexus. The application allows browsing of large volumes of digitized images such as pictorial diagrams, maps and paintings over networks. On iPalletnexus, it is necessary to provide metadata that describe information such as the title and the author of each resource, and the metadata must be adaptable to any...

Undesirable Heritage: Fascist Material Culture and Historical Consciousness in Nuremberg

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Social, Cognitive, Historical, Technological and Material Dimensions of Learning Trajectories in Designed Learning Environments

The goal of my dissertation research is to track learning (e.g., developing capabilities, understanding, and participation) in an informal after school cooking and science learning environment designed based on constructivist theories of and approaches to learning. I seek to understand what factors contribute to and prohibit learning. I am taking four points of view on learning and knowing to a...

Detection and Quantification of Material Displacements at Historical Structures Using Photogrammetry and Laser Scanning Techniques

This study proposes a new non-contact approach allows detecting, measuring and tracking the change of cracks in the historical structure using photogrammetric techniques and computer methods. The proposed procedure used an accurate generation of true orthophoto of the studied structure using precise 3D surface representations derived from laser scanning and several digital images that entirely ...