The 2014 Workshops received good feedback and some of the comments made by the students are featured here to provide prospective students for 2015 with a better idea of how Transnational Access (TNA) can benefit them.
3D Documentation Workshop, Pisa
Three TNA training courses were held in 2014. These were structured as week-long workshops (summer schools) where students were taught by subject experts and provided with one-one individualised support for the development of their own research projects. Three separate topics were covered:
- Mapping existing datasets to CIDOC-CRM (PIN, Prato, Italy)
- 2D/3D documentation for archaeology (CNRS, Pisa, Italy)
- Design of archaeological datasets (CNRS, Pisa, Italy)
Feedback from the students who attended these courses was very positive. Everyone felt that they had learned a lot during their week and that in many cases, the new knowledge would help with the development of their personal research projects.
CIDOC-CRM Workshop, Prato
”The main achievements (I) experienced during the summer school are related to the possibility to manage and handle 3D models from pictures: this means that in a very short time it would be possible to document archaeological features, ad share them very easily.” Paola Derudas.
“From the course of this summer school… Now I am able to develop the right project work plan and budgets for the project.” Yuan Yuan, Germany.
The course gave me a very good overview on how metadata can be organized and suggested some good tools that can help me carry out my project. I also got in contact with other people in the field that share my problems with metadata management , and we will have the possibility to share our future experience and solutions.” Carlotta Capurro.
As a result of the feedback, the 2015 TNA has been expanded to allow students to apply for individual placements in addition to the training workshops.