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Re: Social Networks for Individual Archaeological Sites

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Andrew Reinhard <[log in to unmask]>

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Tue, 9 Oct 2007 11:26:12 -0500

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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
>>
>> -- 
>> **********************************
>> Andrew Reinhard
>> eLearning and IT Coordinator
>> Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, Inc.
>> 1000 Brown Street, Unit 101
>> Wauconda, Illinois 60084
>> [log in to unmask]
>> Tollfree: 800.392.6453
>> Phone: 847.526.4344 x19
>> Fax: 847.526.2867
>> www.bolchazy.com
>> **********************************
>>
>> Contribute to our Forums at www.bolchazy.com/forum:
>> AP Classics, eLearning, Artes Latinae, and more!
>>
>> Classics teaching goes digital at
>> http://eclassics.ning.com
>>
>> Get your daily dose of Latin and BC news at
>> www.bcpublishers.blogspot.com/
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Melissa M. Terras MA MSc DPhil CLTHE MBCS FHEA
> Lecturer in Electronic Communication
> School of Library, Archive and Information Studies
> Henry Morley Building
> University College London
> Gower Street
> WC1E 6BT
>
> Tel: 020-7679-7206 (direct), 020-7679-7204 (dept), 020-7383-0557 (fax)
> Email: [log in to unmask]
> Web: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/slais/melissa-terras/
> Blog: http://melissaterras.blogspot.com/
>
> General Editor, Digital Humanities Quarterly: 
> http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/
>
> Image to Interpretation: An Intelligent System to Aid Historians in 
> Reading the Vindolanda Texts
> Available now through all good bookshops, or direct from Oxford 
> University Press at:
> <http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=9780199204557>http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=9780199204557 
>
>
>
>


-- 
**********************************
Andrew Reinhard
eLearning and IT Coordinator
Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, Inc.
1000 Brown Street, Unit 101
Wauconda, Illinois 60084
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Tollfree: 800.392.6453
Phone: 847.526.4344 x19
Fax: 847.526.2867
www.bolchazy.com
**********************************

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