WS1 - (Workshop 1) Demystifying Documentation Technologies (Documentation technologies: past, present and future)

Thursday, October 1, 2020

10:00 AM – 3:00 PM MDT

CE: 0

Sponsored By:

Workshop Organizer(s)

Elisa Rubalcava Cobo

Heritage Conservation Technologist
Alberta Culture and Tourism: Historic Resources Management Branch

Workshop Presenter(s)

Julia Ausloos-Bedinger

Associate | Architect
Architectural Resources Group
John Burns, FAIA, FAPT, LEED AP
Natalie Feinberg-Lopez
Annabel Lee Enriquez

Associate Project Specialist
Getty Conservation Institute
Christian Ouimet

Conservation Technologist
Heritage Conservation Services
Mario Santana

Associate Professor
Carleton University
Michael Schuller, PE

President
Atkinson-Noland and Associates
Hannah Simonson

Architectural Historian/Cultural Resources Planner
PAGE & TURNBULL
Zach Soflin, Registered Architect

CEO
Layer
TW

Tom Ward

Manager
Alberta Ministry of Culture
Warren Wilford

Owner
Berkshire Dimensions
Luigi Barazzetti

This 3-day course has been approved for 12.0 hours HSW.

Most of the workshop will use the Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village as a virtual subject to examine the documentation technologies and methods presented. The UCHV was established in the 1970s to interpret the early Ukrainian settlements of east central Alberta, and features over 40 restored vernacular buildings.

This workshop will take place over 3 half days (approximately 4hrs per day), and will be delivered over a digital conferencing system. Participants will be introduced to the need for the recording of heritage places to inform the best conservation (preservation) approaches. Led by heritage recording specialists, a variety of documentation technologies are explored, from capturing techniques, processing of the captured data into deliverables, leveraging these products for activities such as analysis and condition assessments and dissemination methods which are especially important during this time requiring remote access to sites.

Participants will be asked to select one of 3 sessions for the Day 2 of the workshop. This will allow participants to get a broader session, and facilitate integration and exchanges with the workshop presenters. The 3 sessions will cover large to small scale surveys. For large scale surveys, participants will be exposed to commercial and open source tools. For medium size projects, the use of photography, photogrammetry and laser scanning will be covered. And for smaller scale surveys, a variety of tools will be explored from HBIM (Historic Building Information Models), condition assessments and tools that link to HBIM’s.

Day 1 Thursday, October 1 (All times are Mountain Time (GMT-7).)
10:00am - 10:20am - Welcome and Introductions

10:20am - 10:50am - History/Background information about the Ukrainian Heritage Cultural Village

UCHV virtual site visit with an emphasis on the case study buildings and their history

Discussion of the cultural value of the resources as well as the technical considerations of relocation and period restoration.

Documentation as an iterative process, working with historians to retain living memory.

10:50am - 11:30am - UCHV Case Study Building(s) Documentation Past– Tom Ward

Discussion of methodology and how documentation informed the decision-making process for period restoration

Evaluating oral history versus physical evidence

11:30am - 11:50am - Review of what documentation exists, and supplemental documentation to be produced.

11:50am - 12:10am - Why Document? Reasons for recording, documentation charters and standards - Mario Santana Quintero

12:10am - 12:25pm - Break

12:25pm - 1:25pm - How do we document?- Christian Ouimet and John Burn

What are the tools and technology available (past and present)?

Photography, manual recording, laser scanning, photogrammetry.

What are you documenting? Do we still use manual tools?

Get what you ask for (L.O.D. and Budgets)

1:25pm - 2:05pm - Heritage Registers and Databases and future trends - Christian Ouimet and Mario Santana Quintero

Cultural heritage and inventory management tools such as Arches

Repositories: National archives, such as the Library of Congress (CRHP?)

Dissemination: ethics and accessibility of heritage records

Future trends - Low cost, app-based tools like Matterport

2:05pm - 2:30pm - Introduction to Day 2, breakout sessions and review of new case study documentation captured in 2020

Learning Objectives:

Identify the role and need of heritage documentation in the conservation (preservation) of historic places
Evaluate and formulate an appropriate method for heritage documentation
Determine and maximize the use of existing and new heritage records
Evaluate and examine of what to specify when requesting heritage documentation
Participants will be able to assess the continuous evolution of new tools and methods