Metamorphoses: Co-referencing classical place data for the CLAROS Project
Sebastian Rahtz, Alexander Dutton

Being Formal and Flexible: Semantic Wiki as an Archaeological e-Science Infrastructure
Isto Huvila

Facilitating database content re-use for semantic feeds and mobile applications
Ian Johnson, Steven Hayes, Steve White

Semantic Technologies Enhancing Links and Linked Data for Archaeological Resources
Keith May, Ceri Binding, Doug Tudhope

A Digital Drawing Tool for Recording Excavations: the Nikon iSpace System
Geoffrey J. Avern, Wouter Franssens

New mapping function of archaeological information and its application in CHARDA-Xplore (CHinese ARchaeology DAtabase)
Dominic Hosner, Andreas Fleck, Mayke Wagner

New Digital Spaces for Philadelphia Archaeology
Glen Muschio

Documentation methods of archaeological records for further 3D GIS analysis
Undine Lieberwirth

Introducing Semantics – Pathways to Data Integration in Archaeology
Leif Isaksen, Kirk Martinez, Graeme Earl

The JISC Institutional Data Management Blueprint Project: Archaeological Implications
Graeme Earl, Hembo Pagi, Steven Johnston, Pam Wake, Michael Whitton, Kenji Takeda

Relational Database Implementation of CIDOC CRM to model interdisciplinary research
Gerald Hiebel, Klaus Hanke, Ingrid Hayek

Was it worth it? Experiences with a CIDOC CRM-based database
Ellen Jordal, Brit Hauge, Espen Uleberg

A multimedia system for storage, analysis and retrival of archaeological informationShuai Zhang, Huazhong Wang, Huaizhong Lin, Dongming Lu

An archaeological drawing method based on line drawing of 3D modelYingquan Shen, Mingquan Zhou, Guohua Geng

Data Integration and Exploration in the Online Cultural Heritage Research Environment (OCHRE)
John David Schloen

Digital Archaeological Excavation Information Protection and Application Framework
Changyu Diao, Dongming Lu, Yabo Dong, Huaizhong Lin

The Complete System of Digital Artifacts Preservation
Wuyang Shui, Mingquan Zhou, Zhongke Wu, Kang Wang, Xia Zheng

The Future of our Digital Past
Michael John Rains

Event-based archaeological registration principles
Peter Jensen, Casper Skaaning Andersen, Liv Stidsing Reher-Langberg

The research of The Display of The Historic Relics Migrations Based on G/S Model
Fang Miao, Dengxiang Xu, Lu Lin

e-Arch Archaeology Information System
Sihao Feng, Xiaohan Li, Tao Zhang, Jigen Tang, Shishan Niu

The Management of Three-Dimensional Cultural Relics Model
Jinjun Tan, Yachun Fan, Guohua Geng, Jing Guo, Zhe Shi, Yunpeng Pan

The World of Thucydides: from Texts to Artifacts and back
Matteo Romanello, Agnes Thomas

Digitalizing paper documentation – on the example of early Celtic settlement Altdorf “Am Friedhof” in Germany, in program ArcView
Julia Maria Chyla

Easy Recording System: solutions based on Web Free Apps databases
Bogdan Bobowski

From Scan to Scholarly Resource: a Greco-Roman Index for the Internet Archive
Brian Fuchs, Federico Boschetti, Darlington John

Our work at PARP:PS will be discussed at the Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA 2011) conference in Beijing next week. I won’t be able to attend this year but our paper will be presented by Steven Ellis, director of PARP:PS. Our paper is titled “The ‘Paper-less’ Project: the use of iPads in the excavations at Pompeii.” Since it is only a 20-minute presentation we won’t be able to go into as much detail as I have on this blog but it has also allowed us to hit on some broader themes and reflect on the paperless project and its integration into our fieldwork.

One of the most important of these is our attempt to make sure that the introduction of this new recording system doesn’t overwhelm the trench supervisors. Our choices of software and methods were intentionally chosen to stretch the technological envelope without pushing the excavation team too much. In some cases this worked out well. As I have said before, the drawing software was the most difficult for them to learn, and we spent a lot of time training them on its use. The results were much better than expected and everybody seems to like the results. We chose the Pages software for the notebooks thinking that they wouldn’t need much training on the use of a word processor. The result was a little anemic, as they didn’t seem to want to illustrate their notebooks as much as they have in the past. I thought that having all of their excavation photos and plans available to them for insertion into the documents would have been obvious but none of the notebooks contained any images. Perhaps we need to have some more training sessions for Pages.

The schedule for the conference has been posted. I haven’t had much time to look at the other papers being presented, but I will soon. Steven Ellis has already pulled out the relevant Vesuvian area paper titles.

I won’t be able to attend the SAA (Society of American Archaeologists) this year but there are more interesting panels there for digital archaeology than usual.

The Digital Data Interest Group Electronic Symposium is titled From the Ground up: Best Practices for Balancing Usability with Theoretical Utility in Archaeological Databases. The link above takes you to abstracts of their papers.

Josh Wells, the author of the page mentioned above, also has a list of other items of interest to members of the DDIG group at the Alexandria Archive blog.

tDAR also has a news item listing the various ways that they are participating at the SAAs.

Colleen Morgan of Middle Savagery is running a Blogging Archaeology panel and the advanced comments from other bloggers has generated much discussion.