Hatchet II by Chealion
The new ConDem coalition government has recently announced a whole raft of cuts and restructuring which promises to radically change our public services. Whether this is for the better, I for one, think not; most likely they will do considerable damage to our public services at a time when we need to be investing in them.
The Linking Open Data dataset cloud by Fenng
Exciting news for UK data this week as the new UK data website, www.data.gov.uk, had its official launch. It’s been in beta for a while but is now fully functional and open for business, providing access to a range of datasets. Importantly, as well as the more traditional download of files in formats such as Comma Seperated Variable (csv) text files, the site promises to provide information in the form of Linked Data. This is a massive advance towards the semantic web with data freely available to be used and reused by all manner of web apps, promising virtually limitless potential; graphed, mapped, and mashed up in a myriad of ways.
This news follows hot on the heels of the consultation document on the future of Ordnance Survey data which promises to make more high quality map resources far more widely available. So in addition to having access to government data such as crime, education and health statistics, we will soon (assuming the consultation goes the way it ought to) have access to basemaps to plot it all on and administrative area boundaries to analyse by.
Posted in Archaeological Computing, heritage, Research interests
Tagged Archaeology, CIDOC CRM, data, HER, heritage, Linked Data, local authority, NMR, OASIS, ontology, semantic web, semantics
A talk given earlier this year at Strode College based largely on a talk given earlier this year at the IfA conference. The main aim was to show the students some of the ways in which technology is used in contemporary archaeological practice to help disseminate findings, with numerous examples from all over the place; credits to all those people and organisations mentioned. Topics covered included data standards, GIS, ontologies and terminology through to innovative uses of the web and so-called web2.0 services such as blogs, twitter, flickr and the like. Videos from the day are over on Vimeo. Continue reading
Posted in Archaeological Computing, Computing
Tagged ADS, Archaeology, Computing, English Heritage, HER, heritage, presentation, public access, RCAHMS, RCAHMW, SMR, Stonehenge, Wessex Archaeology
Archaeogeomancy
