The s+a3 project: leveraging analytic resources

"The S+A3 Project: Leveraging Analytic Resources" Tom Johnson Managing Director Inst. for Analytic Journalism Santa Fe, New Mexico USA [email_address]

Objectives
New Mexico is a poor state in the traditional definitions of the 19 th and 20 th centuries
New Mexico is a rich state IF we can recognize we are in the Digital Age
A proposal for economic development
Little capital cost
Large commitment to change

The catalyst: Lienzo de Quauhquechollan www.lienzo.ufm.edu /

Lienzo up close….

Restoration story
Trans-disciplinary team anthropology, archaeology, chemistry, epigraphy, ethnobotany, digital technology, film animation, graphic design, history, law, photography, storytelling and textiles
Digital restorers, animation programmers, script writers, and narrators.

Restoration story
Photographers captured high-resolution images of the original at the Casa de Alfeñique Museum in Puebla, Mexico.
For maximum resolution
divided the surface of the Lienzo into three rows and five columns.
For each of the 15 sections, they created a 4 x 5 inch reprography plate (negative) and a scan.
The quality is so high that individual threads of the cloth can be seen clearly.

The catalyst: Mysterious object

Every cultural artifact has a story
Who
What
Where
When
Why
How
So what?

Stories a function of….
Data In  Analysis  Info Out
Data In  Analysis  Info Out

Analytic tools – Handheld XRF http://www.niton.com/Managers/Multimedia/XL3-presentation/Thermo_20070720_GN.html

XRF analysis of patrimony

“ Borrowing” from GISystems
Geographic Information Systems = integrates, data, hardware, software and GPS to assist in the analysis and creation of maps.

Borrowing from GIScience
Geographic Information SCIENCE
Examines impacts of GIS on individuals and society, and the influences of society
Incorporates more recent developments in cognitive and information science.
GI Science overlaps with and draws from more specialized research fields such as computer science, statistics, mathematics, and psychology, and contributes to progress in those fields.
Great strides in geo-statistics

Different disciplines; similar methods Geology phosphorus on land scan for a small portion of this reservoir's watershed Liao To Ming Dynasty Two Dragon Cup

Different disciplines; similar methods
Figure 6 Patient OFDI-03 Images of Right Coronary Artery
(A) A left anterior oblique angiogram after stent deployment shows stent site (s) and 3.0-cm optical frequency domain imaging (OFDI) pullback segment (ps). (B) Fly-through view (distal-proximal) demonstrates a calcified lesion underneath the stent (arrow). (C) An OFDI cross-sectional image, obtained at location of yellow arrow in B, shows a large calcific nodule from 11- to 4-o'clock. Tick marks, 1 mm.
http://imaging.onlinejacc.org/cgi/content/full/1/6/752 Medicine

Geostatistics: Semivariogram/Covariance

Geostatistics: How many different ways could we measure these pots?

Remote Sensing  Pattern Matching

Remote sensing
The art or science of telling something about an object without touching it.
Important and desirable when analyzing artifacts
More recently… …using images acquired … by employing electromagnetic radiation in one or more regions of the electromagnetic spectrum, reflected or emitted…

DNA analysis
Much more than living things
“ DNA analysis of ancient paint samples indicates that paint’s binder made from deer or bison bone marrow” – Science News May 27, 1995

Potential for DNA analysis?
Segesser Hides – Palace of the Governors

Resources in New Mexico?
Tierra, cielo, hierba, vacas
-- Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
Land, sky, grass, cows

“ Rio Grande Scientific Corridor” Los Alamos: LANL + private companies, e.g. Lava Visual Analytics , New Mexico Virtualization Santa Fe: State agencies, private R&D, curators and conservationists, genetic research, state and private museums, colleges Albuquerque: UNM, Sandia Labs, private R&D, consultants in archaeology Socorro : NM Tech Las Cruces: NM State El Paso: UTEP

“ Rio Grande Cultural Corridor” Taos: Blumenschein Home & Museum; La Hacienda de los Martinez; Harwood Museum of Art; Millicent Rogers Museum; Taos Art Museum Santa Fe: State agencies, private R&D, curators and conservationists, genetic research, state and private museums, colleges Albuquerque: NHCC, Indian Center, Atomic Museum Socorro : NM Tech; Gran Quivera; Ft. Craig Las Cruces: NM State El Paso: UTEP El Camino Real International Heritage Center Los Alamos: Bradbury Museum, Bandelier

Double-helix of science and culture The Sciences Cultural Artifacts
Data In  Analysis  Information Out

Multi-dimensional visual analytics

Ambient computing and analysis SimTable – Santa Fe

Double-helix of science and culture The Sciences Cultural Artifacts
Data In  Analysis  Information Out
Making of new knowledge  economic growth for New Mexico

Action steps
Conduct Digital Enterprise skill census in Northern NM – businesses, gov’t., NGO, et al.
Facilitate “conversations” btwn analytic and museum/conservation/restoration communities
Network to promote small (~250-400) conferences, e.g. Society for Archaeological Sciences

Action steps
Scholarship to send IAIA student(s) to CHI photometry class
Cultural Heritage Imaging http://www.c-h-i.org/conservation/
RTI (Reflectance Transformation Imaging)

Action steps
Scholarship to send IAIA student(s) to photometry class
Push for city/county/state to install open access Fiber Optics to every business, home, school & gov’t offices
Turn out for local meetings RE WiFi and related digital communications

Timeline?
1-5 years:
Regular international conferences
Develop collaborative educational programs
Labs • Area h.s. and colleagues • Businesses
R&D focusing on APPLIED
Certification and/or degrees
Create apps for museums
Tours on iPads and Tables
Dynamic exhibits and web sites
Scholarly collaboration tools

Timeline?
1-5 years:
Regular international conferences
Develop collaborative educational programs
Labs • Area h.s. and colleagues • Businesses
R&D focusing on APPLIED
Certification and/or degrees
Create apps for museums
Tours on iPads and Tables
Dynamic exhibits and web sites
Scholarly collaboration tools
3-15 years:
Contract work
Highly skilled workforce
New products and methods emerge

Tom Johnson Managing Director Inst. for Analytic Journalism Santa Fe, New Mexico USA [email_address]

The s+a3 project: leveraging analytic resources

by J T "Tom" Johnson on Jun 25, 2011

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