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Recording:onechance
Ourstaffgenerallyhaveonechancetorecord Disseminationonlineisswift,cheap,easy Thereisnootherarchaeologicaldatabaseofthissize Itisunderusedforresearchatpresent Thedataitcontainscantellathousandstoriesofoursharedheritage
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Objects by year
449,359 objects online @ 23:20 26/2/10 – 400K in 7 years!
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Research in progress
23 PhDs - 3 based at UCL 6 AHRC projects - 1 at UCL 36 Masters 18 Undergraduates 12 internal 24 personal research You could join these researchers - ask me
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All PAS records mapped using GIS
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How many virtual visitors?
Year Unique Visitors Number of visits Pages viewed Pages per visit 2004 84,174 289,595 4,847,892 16 2005 152,711 555,289 9,639,621 18 2006 247,103 720,369 15,469,127 21
Changed data collation to Google Analytics
2007 111,338 239,293 2,365,172 10 2008 196,113 326,408 5,384,746 15
Steadyincreaseyearbyyear;thereareanestimated8‐10,000detectoristssowereachaminimumof100timesasmanypeopleperannumwithnodiscernableinterestincollectingordiscoveringartefactsasthosethatdo.
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Havewestagnated?
Frankly–no.
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PAS ICT Development
Original database commissioned in 1998 – MS Access
6 Local installations for pilot FLOs
Data collated once per annum and uploaded to website in basic format
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Nationalisation
• 2003 – The Scheme gains HLF funding
• Staff goes from 6 recording FLOS to 36
• Alice Grant consulting produces ICT outline
• OAD commissioned to produce new database after competitive tendering
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Calamity August 06 – OAD went bust
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New database built in house
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Enhanced geo data via flickr shapefiles & Yahoo! geoplanet
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Mappingdiscovery
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Highresolutionzoom
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New functions – data sourcing for enhancement
Uses wide range of 3rd party data sources
Extensive data revisions
Linked data
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EnhancedbibliographyviaAmazon
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Imagesdisseminatedviaflickr
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Enhanced experience
• Stable, human friendly URLs
• http://www.finds.org.uk/romancoins/personifications/named/as/Apollo
• Using the gravatar web service to provide user avatars
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Draw in data from dbpedia for reuse
Pull data from our database and the BM collections online to teach numismatics
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Parliamentary data
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Guardian news articles about PAS
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Introducedarchaeologicalprinciples
WhichallowedPhilippaWaltontodoherPhDmoreeasily…..
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Rurality of coin distributions?
PhD student at the Institute comparing static data from PAS, HERs and coin hoard reports to produce a synthesised map to update Richard Reece’s study of Roman coin finds. This will change our knowledge of Roman Britain to a ruralised landscape.
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Scheduledmonumentintersections
Wecannowdoublecheckgridreferences,informfindersthattheymightbedetectinginthewrongplaceetc.
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Comingsoon
Crowdsourcedfindsdata–thepubliccanrecordtheirowndiscoveries
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WhataboutStaffordshire?
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Staffordshire
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Flickr love
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WebsitefeaturedonBBC
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BBCfrontpagenewstrend
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Newsitewilllaunchverysoon
DemonstrationintheClorefoyer
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AndRogerBlandOBElikesit:
“Phenomenal!I'vebeenhavingaplay.”–21:3026/2/10