Workshops and Seminars
Data Sans Frontieres: Web Portals and the Historic Environment
A workgroup organized by Stuart Jeffrey, ADS/AHDS Archaeology, University of York and the Historic Environment Information Resources Network, supported by the AHRC ICT Methods Network and The British Museum, held at the British Museum on 25 May 2007.
Unusually for an academic discipline, much core research material in archaeology is actually curated by bodies outside the HE sector. Traditionally, accessing these resources for research purposes has been complicated, difficult, or in some cases impossible.
New developments in portal technology have created the opportunity for cross-sectoral (and cross-border) data aggregation. This workgroup took a comprehensive look at exciting new opportunities for disseminating and integrating historic environment data using portal technologies and Web 2.0 approaches. By bringing together speakers from national organizations, national and local government and academia, this workgroup was able to explore options for cooperation at both national and international levels.
The aims of the workgroup were:
- To raise awareness of current developments in the online dissemination of Historic Environment Data
- To set developments in the historic environment sector in a wider national and European information context
- To raise awareness of current portal and interoperability technologies
- To create a vision for a way forward for joined up UK historic environment information provision
AHDS Methods Taxonomy Terms
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Disciplines
- Archaeology
- History
Methods
- Data publishing and dissemination - Presenting
- Data publishing and dissemination - Searching/querying
- Data Structuring and enhancement - Image enhancement
- Data Structuring and enhancement - Coding/standardisation
- Data Structuring and enhancement - Record linkages
- Data Structuring and enhancement - Markup/text encoding - descriptive - conceptual
- Data Structuring and enhancement - Markup/text encoding - descriptive - document structure
- Data Structuring and enhancement - Markup/text encoding - descriptive - linguistic structure
- Data Structuring and enhancement - Markup/text encoding - descriptive - nominal
- Data Structuring and enhancement - Markup/text encoding - presentational
- Data Structuring and enhancement - Markup/text encoding - referential
- Strategy and project management - Documentation
- Strategy and project management - ICT project management