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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. 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