Things that Worry Me 1. Loss of Unstructured Process Documentation

(aka “detailed notes”)

Response to Mobile Apps SessionFAIMS Stocktaking Workshop 2012

Adam RabinowitzThe University of Texas at Austinarabinow@mail.utexas.edu

Bert Hodge Hill’s 1902 Corinth field notebook, from the Corinth archives

Things that Worry Me 2. Impoverished Drawing and Sketching

(aka “connect-the-dots”)

From John Wallrodt’s blog Paperless Archaeology (paperlessarchaeology.com): examples of the PARP:PS context drawing system using the vector-based TouchDraw app

From coastalarchaeology.blogspot.com: excavation unit mapping using PDF graph paper (left) and clean-up with illustration software

Various sketches made with iPad drawing apps: Bamboo Paper (with grid, upper left) and Paper (ballpoint pen “brush”, above, and fountain pen “brush”, left)

Things that Are Exciting 1. Computational Photography

Photomodels made with AutoDesk’s 123D Catch application, with cloud processing (they also make an iPad app)

Model of a church pier by Herman Kruger, http://www.123dapp.com/FullPreview/Index.cfm/ID/776302

Things that Are Exciting 2. Self-conscious Field Survey

(with thanks to Matthias Lang)

Things that Still Worry Me Despite All the Excitement:

That Old Black Box

Back to the analog: stratigraphic preservation through 3D

printing?

3D print model of surface of Mars derived from NASA imagery and posted on Thingiverse (http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:25319)