Contributors
- Contributors
Talal Akasheh is the director of Cultech for Archaeology and Conservation. He served as professor of chemistry at Yarmouk University (1976-90), then as director of the environment sector at the Higher Council for Science and Technology (1990-96). From 1996 to 2000 he served as dean of research and graduate studies at the Hashemite University. He established the Queen Rania Institute for Tourism and Conservation as its dean and became vice president (2000-2003). He led several research efforts on Petra monuments, and the GIS system he created for the Petra monuments won him the Rolex Award for Enterprise in Cultural Heritage in 2008.
Bill Blake is a survey practitioner and teacher of digital heritage documentation skills, specializing in the integration of EDM and drawing in heritage documentation. He is a developer of real-time computer-aided design (CAD) survey and integrated CAD methods for drawing production and is active in the ongoing development of standards for 3D heritage documentation. He contributed to the English Heritage specifications for metric survey and is a developer and contributor to the current model of survey technology application in heritage, which seeks to define the balance between the three elements of the documentation process: data capture, information selection, and communication. Additionally, he introduced CAD practice at the Ancient Monuments Drawing Office (AMDO) in 1989 under Terry Ball, R.A. Since 2005 Blake has been executive board member of the joint ICOMOS/ISPRS International Committee for Documentation of Cultural Heritage (CIPA).
Miriam Cabrelles holds an engineering degree in geodesy and cartography from the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain. She is an active member of the Photogrammetry and Laser Scanning Research Group (GIFLE) in the Department of Cartographic Engineering, Geodesy, and Photogrammetry at the Polytechnic University of Valencia. She is an expert in the documentation of architectural and archaeological cultural heritage.
Joseph E. B. Elliott specializes in photography of historic industrial and architectural sites. Over the past eighteen years he has worked with clients such as the Historic American [End Page 289] Buildings Survey (HABS), the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, the University of Pennsylvania, and Argonne National Laboratory, as well as various cultural resource and engineering firms. His work is in the collections of the Athenaeum of Philadelphia, the Library of Congress, and several museums and universities. His photographs have been published in Common Ground, Smithsonian, Wired, and Metropolis. A book of his photographs, Bethlehem Steel, is forthcoming from the Center for American Places. Educated at the University of Minnesota and Pratt Institute, Elliott is a professor of art at Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pennsylvania.
Ghassan Ghattas completed technical studies in surveying and civil engineering. He worked for ten years as a support specialist for the Leica Geosystems's local representative in Lebanon, a period during which he received extensive training on the use of total stations, GPS, and surveying and photogrammetry softwares. He worked on several projects including the preparation of a complete IKONOS satellite imagery for Lebanon and the establishment of a geodetic network for the city of Khartoum using GPS. He is currently working at Lebanon's Directorate General of Antiquities as a GIS and surveying specialist. His involvement in the Baalbek Temple project included, among other things, contributing to the development of the surveying methodology and the design of a GIS database for surface degradations. He is currently following postgraduate studies in GIS at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam.
Naif Haddad obtained his Ph.D. in the field of architecture from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, in 1995. He worked as a principle architect on several excavations, research programs, and projects that involved the documentation, restoration, conservation, and reuse of historical buildings and the urban conservation of historic centers in Greece and Jordan. His research interests and publications are in documentation, restoration, conservation, and anastylosis of archaeological sites, historical buildings and monuments, as well as in the ancient architecture of the Mediterranean region.
John Hinchman received his Master of Fine Arts from Cranbrook Academy of Art and his Master of Science in historic preservation from the University of Pennsylvania. Since 2002 he has taught at the University of Pennsylvania, lecturing on the application of digital media and information technology...
