On February 27-28, 2015, the Wentworth Institute of Technology (WIT) in Boston, MA will host “Mobilizing the Past for a Digital Future: the Potential of Digital Archaeology.” The proceedings will be live streamed. Registration for attending the workshop in person closes on February 5.
The workshop organizers are Erin Walcek Averett (Creighton University), Derek Counts (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), Jody Gordon (Wentworth Institute of Technology), and Michael K. Toumazou (Davidson College). The National Endowment for the Humanities is sponsoring the project, which received a Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant.
Workshop sessions include:
- App/Database Development and Use for Mobile Computing in Archaeology
- Mobile Computing in the Field
- Systems for Archaeological Data Management
- Pedagogy, Data Curation, & Reflection
Learn more at http://uwm.edu/mobilizing-the-past/.