The ACCORD project aims to co-produce 3D digital models of heritage sites in Scotland with local communities. The project is investigating how digital technologies like photogrammetry and 3D printing can transform communities' relationships with heritage sites by giving them more ownership over digital records and representations of sites. The project is working with several communities across Scotland to create 3D digital records of sites like cup-marked stones, historic cemeteries, and archaeological landscapes using consumer-level technology. Preliminary feedback suggests these activities have increased engagement with sites and allowed new interpretations. The digital records are shared openly online for others to experience and study.

1. With
Dr Mhairi Maxwell, Dr Stuart Jeffrey, Prof Sian Jones & Dr Alex Hale
The ACCORD Project
Archaeology Community CoProduction of Research Data
Cara Jones Archaeology Scotland

2. Brave New [digital] World?

3. The ACCORD Project
AHRC Funded, 2014/15 (15 Months)
Connected Communities and Digital Transformations programme
Partners:
- Digital Design Studio, Glasgow School of Art
- University of Manchester
- Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of
Scotland
- Archaeology Scotland
Investigators:
- Dr Stuart Jeffrey – PI
- Prof Sian Jones and Dr Alex Hale – CIs
- Dr Mhairi Maxwell – PDRA
- Cara Jones – project partner

4. Research Questions
• The value of coproduction; how does
this change peoples’ relationship to the
site or object? Does it give people a
different sense of ownership?
• What are the barriers to digital
technology?
• How are forms of existing community-
based social value associated with sites
and places addressed and transformed
through engagement with 3D digital
technologies?

5. Project Aims
The ACCORD project is working together with communities
across Scotland to co-design and co-produce 3D digital
models of heritage places and monuments.
ACCORD is taking the technologies of 3D modelling, recording,
visualisation and printing out of the domain of specialists and
experts.
Together we seek to explore how forms of community-based
social value associated with sites and places are addressed and
transformed through engagement with 3D digital technologies
(photogrammetry, RTI, 3D printing and sometimes Lidar).

6. ACCORD Activities: together we create
• 3D records; RTI, Photogrammetry,
3D printing
• Using consumer level technology
• Integrated with user generated
contextual content and statements
of social value in an open access
online archive (at the Archaeology
Data Service).

7. ACCORD Workshop
• Photogrammetry
• RTI (Reflective
Transformation Imaging))

8. ACCORD Projects
Camas Nan
Geall,
Ardnamurchan
Glendaruel,
Argyll and Bute
Glasgow
Necropolis
Cullingsburgh,
Shetland

9. Glendarual – rediscovering a cup-marked
stone
“It’s like magic!” Cathy, CGDT
archaeology group member.

10. Glasgow Necropolis
“The process itself forces you to
examine the monument in detail”
[the results] “focuses attention, enhances
what is already there, made things visible
[that I had] not seen before”

11. Ardnamurchan
Copyright: RCAHMS
1976
Group felt that the results could not replace the original but
could be used as an objective analytical tool

12. Cullingsburgh
“[this process] allows for more
possibilities for interpretation”

13. Sharing the results

14. Sharing the results

15. Conclusions?

16. Thank you!
• Ardnamurchan Community Archaeology Group
• Bressay Local History Group
• Friends of Glasgow Necropolis
• Glendaruel Community Woodland Archaeology
Group
• AHRC, Glasgow School of Arts, Archaeology
Scotland, RCHAMS