The Documenting and Triaging Cultural Heritage (DATCH) project is open-source software for field assessment and documentation of built and movable cultural heritage using mixed reality hardware. The Documenting and Triaging Cultural Heritage (DATCH): Damage Assessment and Digital Preservation has been made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Democracy demands wisdom.
DATCH permits real-time overlay comparisons of cultural heritage against earlier documentation while also enabling the creation of new scaled drawings using gestures, even in field situations with no network connections. When network connections are available additional features such as video calls with specialists and data sharing with management systems will be enabled. DATCH will aid rapid needs assessments of cultural heritage in conflict situations, ongoing assessments of cultural heritage in the field, and enable fieldwork across multiple disciplines. The prototype software will be developed and field tested with Microsoft’s HoloLens 2, but with a goal of cross-platform compatibility across head mounted display mixed reality devices.
This repository is the offical DATCH2 documentation which has currently been developed in the Unity Real-Time Development Platform for the Microsoft HoloLens 2.
For general information about the project visit https://sciences.ucf.edu/anthropology/datch/.
Getting Started
Installation
See the Deployment Directions page for download and installation instructions.
Documentation
Here are some useful documentation links:
Community
Discord
Join the DATCH2 Discord!
Feedback
To give feedback, ask a question or make a feature request, you can either use the Github Discussions or the Discord server.
Bugs are logged using the github issue system. To report a bug, simply open a new issue.
Major Funding
The Documenting and Triaging Cultural Heritage (DATCH): Damage Assessment and Digital Preservation has been made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Democracy demands wisdom.
- Digital Humanities Advancement Grants (Level III - HAA-277278-21)
- Digital Humanities Advancement Grants (Level II - HAA-287908-22)
Partners
This project draws on research supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.
This project draws on research supported by the CRANE (Computational Research on the Ancient Near East) Project.
