SVP Database

By Chris Motz
May 4, 2012 //
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Having access to the PARP:PS database was invaluable when developing the Sangro Valley Project’s database and paperless workflow (see my first post for an overview and this post for more background information). In that sprit of cooperation I have made available an unlocked version of the database originally developed for the SVP. The database – which we have dubbed “Cera,” the Latin word for a wax writing tablet – can be downloaded here (see licensing below and in the ReadMe file that comes with the database). You can no longer download a demo of FileMaker Pro 11 directly from FileMaker. The file will work with the demo of FileMaker Pro 12, but it will need to be converted first.

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#hth2012

By John Wallrodt
May 2, 2012 //
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#hth2012 is the hashtag for the High Tech Heritage 2012 conference currently being held at UMass Amherst. Lots of good tweets coming from that conference. I especially like Eric Kansa’s summary of Frank McManamon’s Plenery talk.

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iPads at PKAP

By John Wallrodt
May 2, 2012 //
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Bill Caraher blogging at The New Archaeology of the Mediterranean World yesterday posted a link to a demo of a new iPad app for trench side data collection at PKAP. Actually he originally linked to this page on April 20 but yesterday he gave a little more information. This seems to be a custom app written by Sam Fee from Washington and Jefferson College.

Bill is more heavily invested in linking social media to his field project than most people I know and the description of his use of iPads reflects that.

This summer, we’ll extend our social and new media reach into the field. Messiah College – one of our three co-sponsoring institutions – will provide the project with iPads for the students to use in the field, the museum, and the hotel. They should be able to publish photographs, video, and reflections directly from the field.

So the iPads are to be used to document more than just the archaeology but their use will expand to allow the students to be able to record and upload their own thoughts during the project.

There are several people that I know who are writing custom apps for their field projects. Most of them are in testing stages and there is very little that I know about how they are accepted by the teams and how the data collected is integrated into the larger data workflow. But the best part about Bill’s approach to archaeology is that I won’t have to wait long to hear about it.

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tDAR Grant Deadline

By John Wallrodt
May 2, 2012 //
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There is an upcoming deadline of 15 May to apply for grants from tDAR to help you get your data into tDAR.

Awards of up to $7,000 are available for cultural resource management (CRM) firms, public agencies, individual researchers, universities, colleges and other organizations to support the direct cost of contribution of digital archaeological content (e.g. documents, data sets, images, etc.) to tDAR, Digital Antiquity’s international digital repository.  Proposals that demonstrate geographical or thematic coherence, a breadth of audience interest, integration of resource management and scientific research across archaeological projects, and those that contribute different types of digital files related to the same archaeological investigations will be considered favorably.

While tDAR is overwhelmingly focused on North American archaeology (by design) there are a few datasets of interest to those who work in Europe and the Mediterranean.

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Two New Blogs

By John Wallrodt
April 4, 2012 //
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I have noticed two new(ish) blogs dedicated to subjects close to the heart of paperless archaeology:

Archaeograph is run by Noel Hidalgo Tan from the Australian National University. I have linked to an earlier article of his use of tablets to record details of rock art in Thailand.

Arch-iPad is run by David Beard, a British freelance archaeologist working primarily in Germany. He is more focused on the iPad as a choice for field data collection.

I have added these to the blogroll.

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