the s+a3 project: leveraging analytic resources
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Economic development in New Mexico can be achieved if we integrate the scientific and cultural tools, traditions and resources of the Rio Grande valley.TRANSCRIPT
"The S+A3 Project: Leveraging Analytic Resources"
Tom JohnsonManaging Director
Inst. for Analytic JournalismSanta Fe, New Mexico USA
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Objectives
• New Mexico is a poor state in the traditional definitions of the 19th and 20th 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
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The catalyst: Lienzo de Quauhquechollan
3www.lienzo.ufm.edu/
Lienzo up close….
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Restoration story
• Trans-disciplinary teamanthropology, archaeology, chemistry, epigraphy, ethnobotany, digital technology, film animation, graphic design, history, law, photography, storytelling and textiles
• Digital restorers, animation programmers, script writers, and narrators.
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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.
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The catalyst: Mysterious object
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Every cultural artifact has a story
• Who• What• Where• When• Why• How• So what?
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Stories a function of….
• Data In Analysis Info Out
• Data In Analysis Info Out
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Analytic tools – Handheld XRF
http://www.niton.com/Managers/Multimedia/XL3-presentation/Thermo_20070720_GN.html
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XRF analysis of patrimony
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“Borrowing” from GISystems
• Geographic Information Systems = integrates, data, hardware, software and GPS to assist in the analysis and creation of maps.
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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
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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
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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
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Geostatistics: Semivariogram/Covariance
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Geostatistics: How many different ways could we measure these pots?
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Remote Sensing Pattern Matching
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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…
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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
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Potential for DNA analysis?
• Segesser Hides – Palace of the Governors
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Resources in New Mexico?
Tierra, cielo, hierba, vacas --Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
Land, sky, grass, cows
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“Rio Grande Scientific Corridor”
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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”
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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
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The Sciences
Cultural Artifacts
• Data In Analysis Information Out
Multi-dimensional visual analytics
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Ambient computing and analysis
27SimTable – Santa Fe
Double-helix of science and culture
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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
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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)
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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
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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
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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
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Tom JohnsonManaging Director
Inst. for Analytic JournalismSanta Fe, New Mexico USA
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