Hi Melissa,
Thanks very kindly for the link! I'll continue to check back often to
see what more has been done. This is a great resource that you have
made available.
Andrew
Melissa Terras wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
>
> Have you come across the work we are doing with VERA?
> http://vera.rdg.ac.uk/
> This is exactly the type of thing we hope to experiment with over the
> next year or so (the project is just getting going just now).
> I'd be interested to hear of any other projects out there using web
> 2.0/advanced interfaces to databases - I *know* there are some, and
> our RAs are chasing them up just now.
>
> I suspect that if you check back on the VERA site in a few months we
> may have lots of links to them!
>
> Melissa
>
> At 15:34 09/10/2007, you wrote:
>
>> Hello Everyone,
>>
>> I posted this to Antiquist yesterday and got no response: either
>> folks are befuddled or could care less about using Web 2.0 tools to
>> facilitate communication/research between excavation team members
>> both during and after digging season. So I'm posting here and will
>> probably see what folks over on Romarch and ARCH-L have to say, too,
>> if anything.
>> It's no secret that archaeological sites are chock full of data and
>> metadata, the bits of which are managed by that site's archaeological
>> team of director, trench supervisors, excavators, cartographers,
>> various experts/specialists, artists, conservators, photographers --
>> you know the usual suspects.
>>
>> How valuable would it be then for sites like Troy, or Corinth, or the
>> Agora excavations, or Tel Anafa, or any other myriad excavations
>> anywhere in the world (both Old and New) to build and maintain a
>> site-centric website that draws all of the site's personalities
>> together to discuss current finds, share end-of-season reports,
>> collaborate on publications, exchange photos, and maintain current
>> (and instant) contact with team members world-wide? I know of no
>> excavation that actively posts ongoing research and dialogue on-line
>> for its team members to use for collaboration after the season ends.
>>
>> As some of you may know, I manage the eClassics web site for
>> Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers (http://eclassics.ning.com). I found
>> the Ning platform incredibly easy to use (no, I'm not shilling for
>> them, but from my experience anybody can use Ning to create an
>> on-line social network for just about anything in under 30 minutes).
>> What I propose is that sites create their own gathering places on the
>> Interweb to facilitate information exchange. Social networking sites
>> created via Ning (ning.com) can be secured with a password so that
>> sensitive research can be carried out prior to releasing it to the
>> rest of the world. For website users, if an excavation team member
>> has Intenet access (from work, home, library, cafe, etc.), s/he can
>> log in anywhere in the world, upload research, notes, photos,
>> drawings, view posts and discussions from other team members and the
>> like. There's even site-specific e-mail so that communications can
>> be maintained in a single space -- nothing gets lost! It's dead
>> simple and can be done from anywhere. Ning sites are super-easy to
>> manage, too.
>>
>> Anyway, the short theme to this long message is that the tools are
>> now available to create social networking sites for archaeological
>> sites to facilitate better, faster communication, sharing ideas,
>> comments, publication drafts, and other material on-line. I'll be
>> proposing this to my site's director in Greece, and we'll see where
>> things go from there, but it really will cut down on the waiting time
>> for various publications we're putting together.
>>
>> Something to ponder and, I hope, execute. Excavations are
>> 4-dimensional beasts, and social networks utilizing Web 2.0 tools can
>> now effectively maintain the multi-dimensional aspects surrounding
>> each excavation.
>>
>> Andrew Reinhard
>>
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