Gorée Island Archaeological Digital Repository » 2012 http://giadr.matrix.msu.edu A collaboration between the National Museum of African American History & Culture, Smithsonian Institution, Institut Fondamental d’Afrique Noire , Cheikh Anta Diop University , and MATRIX: The Center for Digital Humanities & Social Sciences Mon, 07 Dec 2015 20:06:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.3.1 December 2012 http://giadr.matrix.msu.edu/index.php/2013/01/09/december-2012/ http://giadr.matrix.msu.edu/index.php/2013/01/09/december-2012/#comments Wed, 09 Jan 2013 20:15:56 +0000 http://sites.matrix.msu.edu/dakar/?p=38 Continue reading →]]> In December 2012, key project personnel (including Dr. Dean Rehberger, Dr. Deborah Mack, and Mr. Michael Green) visited Dakar to begin the initial phase of the Gorée Island Archaeological Digital Repository pilot project.  The goal of this initial trip was severalfold.  First, it was an opportunity for the senior project personnel to meet with Senegalese partners, including Dr. Ibrahima Thiaw, Associate Professor of Archaeology at IFAN, and UCAD graduate students: Hadidiatou Diatta, Fatoumata Diatta, Khadidiatou Siware, Abdoulaye Mbaye, Tidiane Sow, and Sidy Ndour.  Secondly, it provided an opportunity to select a variety of artifacts from the Gorée Island archaeological collection upon which the 3D scanning technique could be tested.  Finally, the visit provided an opportunity begin training UCAD archaeology graduate students in the process of stereophotogrammetry.

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