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Third VERA Winter Workshop – Wednesday 2nd December 2009
"Digital field recording and publication in archaeology"
The VERA project invites you to a workshop entitled "Digital field recording
and publication in archaeology" to be held in the Archaeology Department of
the University of Reading on Wednesday 2nd December 2009.
The JISC funded Virtual Research Environment for Archaeology (VERA) project
ran from July 2007 to March 2009 (http://vera.rdg.ac.uk). Its overall aims
where to enhance the documenting and archiving of archaeological data,
create a Web portal that would provided enhanced tools for the VRE users and
then to develop and test utilities that would help encapsulate the working
practices of current research archaeologists unfamiliar with virtual
research environments.
The aim of this third workshop is to show what the project has achieved
during its lifetime. This included three seasons of excavation at
Silchester, digital data capture, and further development of the IADB. We
also hope to discuss more broadly the future of Virtual Research
Environments and Archaeology. The day will begin with coffee around 10am
with talks scheduled to finish at around 4:30pm.
More details, including a timetable and directions to the university, can be
found on the VERA website at: http://vera.rdg.ac.uk/events/winter_workshop_3.php
Places are limited and priority will be given to all current IADB users, but
there will also be places for other archaeologists interested in the VERA
project, so please get in touch by the 25th November if you are interested!
Please also forward this to anyone else who might be interested.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Regards,
Emma
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Emma Jane O'Riordan
Research Assistant, Silchester Town Life Project
Department of Archaeology
University of Reading
Whiteknights
Reading
Berkshire, RG6 6AY
0118 378 7564
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http://www.silchester.rdg.ac.uk
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