Agenda

Day 1 Wednesday 20th February

CONFERENCE SESSION ONE

09:00 Registration: tea and coffee on arrival at Shire Hall

10.10 Move to the Savoy Theatre

10:30 Welcome: Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales

10:40 Opening address: Justin Albert (National Trust)


Chair: Dr David Gwyn (Govannon Consultancy)

11:00 New Technologies and Interpretation: Playing with Fire and Water: David Penberthy and Dr Kate Roberts (Cadw)

11:30 The Monmouthpedia Project: Michael Booth (Monmouthshire County Council)

12:00 Digital Preservation - The work of the Archive and Records Council Wales: Gary Tuson (Gwent Archives)

12:30 The Zooinverse - Working with 750,000 volunteers: Dr Chris Lintott (Zooniverse: University of Oxford)

13:00 Lunch


PARALLEL CONFERENCE SESSIONS

Digital Data Sets - Papers

Chair: Tom Pert (Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales)

14:00 Smartphones - the future of heritage interpretation?: Andrew Kerry-Bedell (ITic & Mobi-Scan)

14:20 Raglan Sense of Roots: Dr Cheryl Morgan (Raglan Local Archives)

14:40 The lost city of Clonmacnoise: Gavin Duffy (RealSIM)

15:00 How to build a Star Trek Replicator for £500 (and ways to use it in heritage education): John Cummings (Independent Consultant)

15:20 Questions

Heritage Tourism - Seminars

Chair: Emily La Trobe-Bateman (Gwynedd Archaeological Trust)

14:00 The challenges of digital archiving: Gareth Edwards (Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales) and Visualising the Archaeology of Gwynedd Sian James (Bangor University)

14:40 Large Digital Data Sets: problems of processing and storage: TBC & Dr Pete Bunting (Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, University of Aberystwyth).


15:30 Tea & coffee


UNCONFERENCE SESSION

Chairs: Tom Pert,

16:00

16:15

16:30

16:45


17:00 Gigapixel Photography: Greg Downing (XRez Studios) (Live streamed from California)


Evening dinner for those paying to attend


Day 2 Thursday 21st February

09:00 Tea and coffee on arrival at the Shire Hall

09:30 Workshops

90 minute workshops

An introduction to LiDAR for beginners: Dr Oliver Davis (Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales)

Tech on the trail: Monmouthpedia

STELLAR: Semantic Technologies and Linked Data: Ceri Binding (University of Glamorgan)


2 x 40 minute workshops

Terrestrial Laser Scanning: Paul Burrows (Leica Geosystems)

Heritage Lottery Funding: Stephen Barlow (HLF)

The Peoples Collection: Dafydd James (National Museum Wales), Carys Morgan (Culturenet Cymru)  and Tom Pert (Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales) 

Digital Heritage Interpretation in action - case studies & digital surgery: Dan Boys (Audio Trails)


11:00 Tea and coffee

11.25 Depart for parallel sessions


Digital Data Sets - Papers

Chair: Scott Lloyd (Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales)

11:30 The DigiDo Project: Dr Edward Jones (National Library of Wales) 

11:50 Enhancing the archaeological record from digitised newspapers: Dr Stephen Briggs (Independent Researcher)

12:10 Through the Eye of a Robot - How automation can influence our perception: Marek Ososinski (Department of Computer Science, University of Aberystwyth)

12:30 3D laser scanning - BIM and beyond: Peter Folwell (Plowman Craven)


Heritage Tourism - seminars

Chair: Tom Pert (Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales)

11:30 Heritage on the move: Andrew Kerry-Bedell (ITic & Mobi-scan) and Angharad Wynne (Angharad Wynne Consultants)

12:10 Regeneration: Communities, skills and tourism: John Harrison (Rhondda Cynon Taff), Dan Boys (Audioguides), Samantha Jones (Metal Links) and Deri Jones (Deri Jones Associates)


13:00 Lunch


CONFERENCE SESSION TWO

Chair:

14:00 Digital Heritage, Tourism and Historical Research: Matt Chilcott (CMC2 Community Interest Group) & Ray Howell (South Wales Centre for Historical and Interdisciplinary Research)

14:30 The Bannockburn Project: Chris Walker (Bright White Ltd)

15:00 Maritime Visualisation: recording shipwrecks in 3D: Mike Postons (3Deep Media)

15:30 Summing Up: Dr David Gwyn (Govannon Consultancy)