I would be happy to contribute.
Kath
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From: "Otto Brinkkemper" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, 3 December, 2013 11:34:53 AM
Subject: Re: Mind the gap: commercial versus research environmental archaeology - how do we reduce it?
Dear all,
Concerning data-sharing, the model developing in the Netherlands might
be of relevance for the UK as well.
Our equivalent of ABCD (archaeobotanical computer database) developed by
Philippa Tomlinson and maintained (still??) by Allan Hall is RADAR. The
maintenance is in my hands, but in the near future we will develop an
online version within the archaeological database Archis, and then each
archaeobotanist can enter his/her data him/herself. Already now, the
entering of data by myself (in an Access database) is much facilitated
by an Excel file with five tab's for data of each of the five tables in
RADAR (reports/sites/features/samples/plants). The "generators" of data
put their data in this Excel file and I copy it into RADAR (c.q. convert
the regular plants spreadsheet to the required database format with the
help of several scripts/macros and then copy it into RADAR).
RADAR is now reaching completeness up to 2010 and next year I hope to
reach the lag of two years which are the result of rules concerning
secret keeping in the Netherlands. End 2014 or 2015 should all Dutch
archaeobotanists be able to enter data themselves.
More details on the RADAR structure can be found in the attached article
(though at that time the software used was Paradox 3.5 for DOS (some of
you might still recognise this operating system, which preceded
windows), now this is Access, but the main structure is identical).
With best wishes,
oTTo
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Onderwerp: Re: Mind the gap: commercial versus research environmental
archaeology - how do we reduce it?
Thanks Nicki
I think the Cultivating Societies Project is a great model - although an
equivalent for all periods for the UK would be a mamouth task.
Ultimately I think we archaeobotanists need to take the lead in sharing
our own data somehow - but it has to be simple and quick to fit in with
limited funding in the commercial world. Not to mention increasingly
complex legal issues surrounding commercial archaeology. I am hoping
that we will discuss the issue of datasharing in the UK at an
archaeobotany workgroup next year sometime.
Best wishes
Ruth
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Sent: 03 December 2013 10:44
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Subject: Re: Mind the gap: commercial versus research environmental
archaeology - how do we reduce it?
Dear Liz, Don, Angela,
As part of the Cultivating Societies Project, Meriel McClatchie collated
much of the unpublished 'grey' literature for Ireland on the
archaeobotany side of things. It was an enormously fruitful exercise
that led to several publications (see attached), with more coming out.
We found the experience very positive and worthwhile from a research
perspective and received much co-operation from workers in the
commercial sector. Meriel may of course have additional comments to
make. We did also make available a simplified database for everyone to
use after the project had ended:
http://www.chrono.qub.ac.uk/instar/archaeobotanicalDatabase.php
Its only for Ireland and specially the Neolithic; we hope to expand the
work subject to another funding application in 2014. I confess the web
site now needs an update but the database is still fully available and
will hopefully be updated when further funds are forthcoming.
Best wishes
Nicki
On 3 Dec 2013, at 10:23, "Monckton, Angela"
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Dear Don,
Perhaps you would consider how the archaeobotanical data has been
collected and used in the Roman Rural project, the database for plant
remains is much less detailed than that for other finds and bones, but
of course it is a very good thing that the plants are included. Many
sites from the grey literature have been collated and mapped for some
regions of UK and the results look interesting though the interpretation
is awaited. It will certainly raise a lot of research questions and list
sources of data.
Apparently there is a Roman Urban project as well but I do not know what
that involves.
Angela
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Sent: 03 December 2013 10:02
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Subject: Re: Mind the gap: commercial versus research environmental
archaeology - how do we reduce it?
Liz,
I'll be speaking on this topic at the IfA Conference next April; namely
on how a two-way mentoring process should be encouraged between the
commercial and 'research' fields via the mining of the environmental
archaeology grey literature. I would be very interested to hear the
views of others on this issue, though I warn people in advance that I'll
probably be sending out a pestering questionaire at some point in
January. All the best,
Don.
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Dr Nicki J. Whitehouse, FRES, FSA
Associate Professor (Reader) in Physical Geography, School of Geography,
Earth and Environmental Sciences, Plymouth University, Drake Circus,
Plymouth, PL4 8AA England, UK
President, INQUA Commission on Humans and Biosphere
http://chrono.qub.ac.uk/habcom/
Cultivating Societies: assessing the evidence for agriculture in
Neolithic Ireland (Heritage Council INSTAR project)
http://www.chrono.qub.ac.uk/instar/
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