Comments on: The Web and Public Archaeology http://caana2012.thatcamp.org/07/25/the-web-and-public-archaeology/ The Humanities and Technology Camp Mon, 30 Sep 2013 19:03:46 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.12 By: bkmeans http://caana2012.thatcamp.org/07/25/the-web-and-public-archaeology/#comment-147 Tue, 31 Jul 2012 14:04:03 +0000 http://caana2012.thatcamp.org/?p=111#comment-147 Tim, thanks, will do, probably sometime early in the fall semester.
Cheers,

Bernard

]]> By: Tim Goddard http://caana2012.thatcamp.org/07/25/the-web-and-public-archaeology/#comment-145 Tue, 31 Jul 2012 02:06:57 +0000 http://caana2012.thatcamp.org/?p=111#comment-145 Well contact me another time and we can talk more about WebGIS if you would like.

Tim

]]> By: bkmeans http://caana2012.thatcamp.org/07/25/the-web-and-public-archaeology/#comment-144 Mon, 30 Jul 2012 22:54:59 +0000 http://caana2012.thatcamp.org/?p=111#comment-144 The WebGIS angle interests me and it’s a shame I won’t be able to talk with you the 10th. I’m toying with integrating my digital models with a GIS and as away of highlighting objects at different historic sites.

]]> By: Tim Goddard http://caana2012.thatcamp.org/07/25/the-web-and-public-archaeology/#comment-142 Mon, 30 Jul 2012 20:39:23 +0000 http://caana2012.thatcamp.org/?p=111#comment-142 Terry,

As we talked a bit in Baltimore about this but I feel the WebGIS has a role to play in this. I feel the spatial visual element of a WebGIS can appeal to the public greater than a Musuem type online exhibit alone. By linking the visual stimulus of maps and/or 3d and then move into virtual realty based on real archaeological data that then allows people to link and comment or draw and add their own ideas is still in its infancy and needs some more feedback from the pubic as to refine this technology. The virtual reali opens a big bag of worms so I will mainly focus in the WebGIS for now. The social media combined with WebGIS needs to be explored more to get the most out of the data and the potential wide variety of users. The more ways we can give the user access to data the better the experience and positive feedback we can get. Not everyone will get the same from a single type of web presence but if we use a “mash up” of web tools done in a specific way I think we can attract a wider audience which will help build the uses and needs of web based tools.

Sorry I just found out today that I won’t be able to attend on the 10th so I’m going to miss out in some good discussion.

]]> By: bkmeans http://caana2012.thatcamp.org/07/25/the-web-and-public-archaeology/#comment-127 Sat, 28 Jul 2012 13:18:07 +0000 http://caana2012.thatcamp.org/?p=111#comment-127 This topic meshes well with the work that I am doing, especially the real versus digital, and I think my tentative session proposal could be integrated into yours. Certainly traveling around and scanning artifacts at historic heritage venues and archaeological sites in Virginia and Pennsylvania shows that this is a topic of great interest. My students who work with me are certainly comfortable working in the digital as well as “real” realms.

]]> By: Mandy Ranslow http://caana2012.thatcamp.org/07/25/the-web-and-public-archaeology/#comment-105 Thu, 26 Jul 2012 01:59:20 +0000 http://caana2012.thatcamp.org/?p=111#comment-105 I am very interested in this topic myself for a number of reasons. As the Connecticut Archaeology Awareness Month Coordinator I am looking for as many ways possible to reach the public with announcements of events and information about the importance of preservation. My latest experiment is asking (begging) historic house museums across the state to exhibit artifacts that have been excavated on their grounds. While I think many would be interested in doing this, the hours in which their open are rather limited, especially outside the summer months. I am thinking an online exhibit would be an avenue worth exploring for them. The Ellington (CT) Historical Society, who I am most closely tied to at this moment has already made strides to put part of their collection online (www.ellingtonhistsoc.org/), which seems rather progressive in my experience. I would like to find out more about creating an online exhibit focusing on a recent kids’ excavation conducted on the property.

]]> By: Ethan Gruber http://caana2012.thatcamp.org/07/25/the-web-and-public-archaeology/#comment-103 Wed, 25 Jul 2012 17:14:52 +0000 http://caana2012.thatcamp.org/?p=111#comment-103 The Portable Antiquties Scheme is one of the best examples of public archaeology out there. I suppose it is still controversial in some quarters, but the results cannot be denied–data for 800,000 objects that would otherwise never have been collected.

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