Lecture for Public Archaeology Masters course, University College London 24th February 2010

1. Digital Archaeology & Museums [email_address]

5. Objects by period

6. Objects by year 439,000 objects online this morning

7. GIS Analysis of data

8. All PAS records mapped using GIS

9. Celtic Coin index records mapped using GIS ACADEMIC USE

10. PAS Iron Age data over CCI data Hadrian’s Wall Prolific recording in Kent ACADEMIC USE

11. 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 Steady increase all round - estimated 8-10,000 detectorists so we reach around 237,000 people per annum with no discernable interest in collecting or discovering artefacts

16. Typical record (atypical object)

17. Calamity August 06 – OAD went bust

19. New database built in house

21. Zoomify on the fly

23. Coin guides

24. Draw in data from dbpedia for reuse Pull data from our database and the BM collections online to teach numismatics

25. Enhanced geo data via flickr shapefiles & geoplanet

28. Parliamentary data

29. Guardian news articles about PAS

31. More on that at the end @ demo time!

32. Staffordshire

33. “ Rise up, o Lord, and may Thy enemies be dispersed and those who hate Thee be driven from Thy Face” Numbers ch. 10 v.35

34. They let the ground keep that ancestral treasure, gold under gravel, gone to earth, as useless to men now as it ever was . Beowulf, 3166-68

35. Flickr love

36. Opensource your life

37. Good enough for the USA

38. Omeka

39. Indianapolis Museum

40. The Scheme as a content provider

41. Where else is our content used? Online: BRICKS - finds identifier People’s Network Discovery Service Offline: Academic journals, papers, original research, desk based assessments, etc Where else could our content be used? The new British Museum website - for example, departmental pages could have recent finds that relate to their period (RSS or OAI-PMH to search our dbase) The 24 Hour Museum - for example local museum pages could have feeds of local finds (RSS) Local society websites Historic Environment Record - XML or OAI-PMH Web mashups - plot PAS finds, against Oxford Archaeology WMS, vs Megalithic Portal vs Museum locations (not done yet before you ask!)

43. Museums with apis And more are coming….

44. Flickr and museum mashup

45. Wiltshire museums & Google books

46. What’s a mash up? “ A mashup is a website or application that combines content from more than one source into an integrated experience.” Wikipedia (a flawed resource….) It is really just synthesis………. The Potato Masher - German grenade

47. What sources can we mash? Pictures - your pictures or my pictures Mapping data - place is a common bond for all of us, it gives us identity RSS feeds - a way to share your content with others in their web pages or via special software

49. Openplaques.org Crowd sources blue plaque data and photos on flickr – built by Frankie Roberto, UCL Alumnus…..

51. Walton Mash 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.

55. Team Schadla-Hall Some of you are already mashing…..

56. Selected digital archaeology And museum projects

61. PTM – by Tom Goskar

62. Thames Discovery Project

63. Recent statements "The future has to be, without question, the museum as a publisher and broadcaster," Neil MacGregor, director of the British Museum. "The challenge is, to what extent do we remain authors, and in what sense do we become publishers providing a platform for international conversations? I am certain that in the next 10 to 15 years, there will be a limited number of people working in galleries, and more effectively working as commissioning editors working on material online.” Nicholas Serota, director of the Tate

64. Statistical analysis

65. Geographic reach - developed world?

66. Social Media - passing fad?

67. The British Museum

68. Acropolis museum

69. Museums on twitter http://www.museummarketing.co.uk/?p=132 Is this indicative of quality content? Probably not…..

70. The Getty on twitter

71. The BM on twitter

72. Multimedia kiosks

73. Kiosk http://www.flickr.com/photos/eatyourgreens/4038471232/

75. Outputs Walk like an Egyptian - family created

76. The end. V isit our website @ www.finds.org.uk Contact me: [email_address]