Dear all,

In the light of recent discussions this announcement from Internet
Archaeology of the publication of this fieldwork report integrated with
its digital archive seems likely to be of interest.

Kate Fernie

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Subject: Ave Valley, Portugal - Internet Archaeology 9
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 18:13:09 +0000
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Internet Archaeology is very pleased to announce the close of our 9th
issue with the publication of
"The Ave Valley, northern Portugal: an archaeological survey of Iron Age
and Roman settlement" by Martin Millett, Francisco Queiroga, Kris
Strutt,
Jeremy Taylor and Steven Willis

        http://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue9/millett_index.html

The publication is the culmination of fieldwork undertaken in the Ave
Valley between 1994 and 1997. Several new sites (Iron Age and Roman)
were
identified based on the density of fieldwalking finds.  The number of
potential Iron Age sites discovered was unexpectedly large, and the
survey
also revealed a strong pattern of continuity of settlement into the
Roman
period.

As well as the usual fare of text and images, the journal publication
links to several datasets that allow users to query:

* the complete fieldwalking data
* all the pottery and tile finds (over 5000 entries)
* the pottery and tile densities (density analysis allowed the authors
to
suggest new site locations).
* tile and pottery fabrics
* the geophysical survey data

Many articles in Internet Archaeology have always blurred the division
between archive (data) and publication (interpretation), but we have not
yet had the opportunity to create an integrated archive, where the
complete suite of data is articulated with the text of the report. The
Ave
Valley publication has now allowed us to begin to put these ideas into
practice.

The digital archive for the project has been deposited by the authors
with
the ADS, and all files are available for users to download and query
offline. However the new departure is that the publication and the
archive, two related but usually separate entities, have been woven
together. The final report in IA does not just link to the digital
archive, but it actually retrieves data _from the archive_ while
apparently still 'within' the publication.

This article I hope makes a positive first step towards creating a fully
integrated digital publication. Your comments are very welcome on
this list.

regards,
Judith

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Judith Winters, Editor
Internet Archaeology, the international electronic journal
http://intarch.ac.uk

Department of Archaeology, University of York,
King's Manor, YO1 7EP,  UK
Tel: +44 1904 433955
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