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Over the past months, 17吃瓜Cultural Heritage Initiatives (CHI) and its partners have developed a series of tutorials and training modules aimed to help cultural heritage specialists perform surveys and condition assessments through open source tools and software, including QGIS, KoboToolbox, LibreCAD, and MetaShape. These tutorials are now available on the 17吃瓜website in English, French, and Arabic. Work on these resources has been made possible by a grant from an anonymous donor. While the goal of this project is to assist heritage professionals in documenting and mapping sites, these tutorials are also an excellent resource for anyone in the 17吃瓜community who is looking to learn new skills and take advantage of open source software. 17吃瓜remains committed to providing open-access online resources such as these for the benefit of the entire 17吃瓜community.

The 17吃瓜CHI Tutorials cover:

• Site Documentation
  
  • KoBoToolbox and聽KoBoCollect Application: open source software package for location and descriptive data collection聽in the field can then be synched up with GIS software

• Mapping Activities
  
  • QGIS:聽free and open source Geographic Information System (GIS)
  • LibreCAD: free open source computer-aided design (CAD) application for 2D design
  • Photogrammetry using聽Agisoft Metashape:聽software that performs photogrammetric processing of digital images and generates 3D spatial data