During the second award period researchers will add an estimated 1,300 items to its existing online database of Rohwer and Jerome materials, including photographs, correspondence, newspaper clippings, 2D and 3D images of objects, incarceree interviews from the 2004 film, Time of Fear, and biographies of incarcerees and camp administrative staff. A 3D visualization of Barracks Block 12, created with a 2013 Japanese American Confinement Sites grant, will be expanded to include the auditorium, library and athletic fields, with audio narratives integrated into the model.

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3D Reconstruction

Almost no trace of the town of Davidsonville remains on the surface of the ground today. Davidsonville, Arkansas was once a flourishing community founded on the banks of the Black River in 1815. The town lasted for about 15 years until 1830 when the county seat was moved to Jackson. Today, archeologists have uncovered remarkable evidence of streets, foundations, and thousands of objects that tell a fascinating story of Davidsonville, its residents, and life on the early Arkansas frontier. Researchers at CAST have combined this information into a highly detailed, 3D reconstruction that depicts what Davidsonville could have looked like in the summer of 1824. Download the free Unity viewer and explore the streets of historic Davidsonville!

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3D Reconstruction

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Digital Preservation; 3D Reconstruction

During the first award period for Rohwer Reconstructed, a National Park Service-funded collaboration rooted at CAST. One of ten Japanese-American internment camps established during World War II, the Rohwer Relocation Center in rural Desha County, Arkansas opened on September 18, 1942. At the time of its closure on November 30, 1945, the camp had been home - at one time or another - to 11,926 Japanese-Americans forcibly removed from their homes on the West Coast. Just as their three years of internment left an indelible mark on the landscape of their lives, so they altered the place called Rohwer, both figuratively and literally. Remnants and ruins of the camp still scatter the fields planted in cotton and soybeans, and the Memorial Cemetery, declared a National Historic Monument in 1992, is a somber reminder of the people who lived and worked here. Interpretive panels constructed at the site in 2013 tell the abridged history of the camp, but are by necessity too brief to articulate the immensity of the full narrative. The documents, maps, and visualizations presented here are fragments of that narrative, pieced together in a technological framework, in an effort to bring the story to life.

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3D Reconstruction; Digital Preservation

The 3D Petit Jean project uses state-of-the-art, laser scanning technology to create 3D models of the bluff shelters and the rock art that was created in them by Native Americans hundreds of years ago. This effort aims to precisely document the dozens of pictographs and petroglyphs and the complex environment they were created in as well provide a means to help visitors locate and understand them. Indian Cave is not accessible to visitors, but because of its restricted size and limited number of motifs, it provides an interesting contrast to the larger Rockhouse Cave – home to the largest concentration of rock art in Arkansas with over 100 motifs. Rockhouse Cave is also the only rock art site in Arkansas with public access. Thousands of visitors explore this bluff shelter each year in search of these interesting images, but most walk away without finding a single one. Many are quite small and difficult to see even to someone who has located them before; however, even the largest figures remain hidden to the great majority of visitors in the vastness and complexity of Rockhouse Cave.

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3D Reconstruction; Reality Capture

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Spatial Archaeometry; 3D Reconstruction; Reality Capture; Network Analysis; GIS, GNSS and Mapping; Technology Education; Digital Preservation; Image Analysis

The CI-TRAIN project is a partnership of institutions of higher education to transform the practice of information technology services for enabling scientific discovery. The CI-TRAIN project was founded by institutions in Arkansas and West Virginia in a partnership that builds on common research in nanoscience and geosciences and leverages complementary expertise.

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Spatial Archaeometry; 3D Reconstruction; Reality Capture; Network Analysis; GIS, GNSS and Mapping; Technology Education; Digital Preservation; Image Analysis

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GIS, GNSS and Mapping; 3D Reconstruction