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Documentation (notes and reading)
- HP 175 Documentation course
- Context
- SIte-related
- On site (of record)
- Archives
- Off-site production
- Project documentation
- personal
- office
- process
- record of decision
- supporting material
- Maintenance/use
- flexibility, accessibility
- imformation management
- Relationship between forms of documentation
- graphic
- photographic
- written
- terminology
- Secretary of the Interior's Standards for Architectural and Engineering Documentation, NPS
Also available as a PDF file here.
- Documentation Shall Adequately Explicate and Illustrate What is Significant or Valuable About the Historic Building, Site, Structure or Object Being Documented.
- Documentation Shall be Prepared Accurately From Reliable Sources With Limitations Clearly Stated to Permit Independent Verification of the Information.
- Documentation Shall be Prepared on Materials That are Readily Reproducible, Durable and in Standard Sizes.
- Documentation Shall be Clearly and Concisely Produced.
- Secretary of the Interior's Standards and Guidelines for Architectural and Engineering Documentation — Illustrated, NPS
- Heritage Documentation Programs, NPS HABS, HAER, HALS
- Archives
- Additional resources
- Partnership in Learning: English Heritage and the Raymond Lemarie International Conservation Centre, XXI International CIPA Symposium, 01-06 October 2007, Athens, Greece
- Letellier, Robin, et al. Recording, Documentation, and Information Management for the Conservation of Heritage Places, Los Angeles: The Getty Conservation Institute, 2007.
- Warden, Robert. Towards a New Era of Recording and Documentation, APT Bulletin, Vol. 40, No. 3/4 (2009), pp. 5-10. provided
- Woodcock, David. Discovery Through Documentation: The Investigation Historic and Cultural Resources. APT Bulletin, Vol. 37, No. 1 (2006), pp. 37-44 provided
- Guidelines for History/Architecture Projects in Minnesota, Minnesotal Historical Society overview of survey and documentation in the context of other activities; includes 'field methods', pp.9-10
Graphic
- Qualifications of specialists researching/documenting a site
- Woodcock, David. Discovery Through Documentation: The Investigation Historic and Cultural Resources. APT Bulletin, Vol. 37, No. 1 (2006), pp. 37-44 provided
- Archives
(historic and new)
- Field 'sketches', notes peruse
- Drawings
- Terminology
- As built
- As found
- As Found, British Columbia Heritage (also referred to below)
- Existing conditions
- Documentation
- Heritage Documentation Programs, NPS HABS, HAER, HALS
- Burns, 2004, Recording Historic Structures. AIA, Chapter 4, "Measured Drawings", especially pp. 88-109. Google Books poor quality on Google; available in the Architecture library
- Sample Projects, NPS peruse, great examples also avaliable through main [page, below
- As Found, British Columbia Heritage great presentation of process
- Project documents (architectural drawings)
- CAD looking for added material, please advise!
- DIgital
Written
- Archival, historic descriptions
- Architectural Description of Isaac Bell House (1886) Lewis, Arnold. American Country Houses of the Gilded Age, New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1982, pp.xv-xvi and fig.7. (Reprint of Sheldon's Artistic Country Seats, 1886.)
- Reconnaissance
- Brief (state level)
- Detailed narrative (National Register) view 'part 7 description' of nominations
- National Register of Historic Places database, NPS
- National Register of Historic Places Program: State Historic Preservation Office Inventories of Historic Places on the Web, NPS
- Focus (database, only partial...at best; so, frustrating), National Register
- Details 'forms' HABS, HAER, HALS) view 'data sheets'
Photographic
- Qualifications of specialist researching/documenting a site
- Archives
- Archival standards
- National Register of Historic Places and National Historic Landmarks Survey Photo Policy Expansion, NPS
- Standards
- Photography
(digital)
- Format
- Standards
- Equipment
- Cameras, settings
- Tripods
- Scales, standards
- Composition
- Identification
Photographic — Perspective Correction
- Photoshop and 'perspective correcting' (Philip)
- Perspective Correction In Photoshop - Keystoning, Steve Patterson, Photoshop Essentials
- Strighten: Straighten Tool, upper left, two down
- For barrel distortion:
- Remove Distortion Tool, upper left or...
- Remove Distortion slider at the top of the column on the right
- Keystoning
- Vertical Perspective Slider
- To help with vertical guide
- Move Grid Tool, top left, third down
- Edge option at the bottom of the right column: Background color
- Buildng appears short?
- Free Transform Command [Ctrl+T (Win) / Command+T (Mac)]
- Free Transform box
- Full Screen mode (letter F)
- Click on the bottom handle and drag it down a short ways to stretch the image vertically
- Enter
- Crop Tool (letter C)
- Click and drag out a cropping border
- Options Bar at the top of the screen and select the Hide option
- Enter
- Command: File save
- Command: Layer > Flatten image
- Command: File save
- Perspective distortion correction tutorial using 'skew' method (not recommended for buildings), Lone Star Digital
- Open image
- Select > All
- Edit > Transform > Skew (instead of Perspective, as sket adjusts each control point individually)
- Shrink: Control and "-" [minus], proves space
- Adjust 'anchire' points
- Enter
- Perspective Control in Photoshop, Allens Video Channel
- Uses 'perspective' instead of 'skew', above
- Perspective Correction in Photoshop, PhotoWalkPro (You Tube)
- Useds Distort > Lens correction
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