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Internet Archaeology 6: Digital Publication theme
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Internet Archaeology 6: Digital Publication theme
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Internet Archaeology
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6
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Judith Winters
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1999
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Date Of Issue From:1999
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20 Jan 2002
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Inhabitation and access: landscape and the Internet at Gardom's Edge
Mark Edmonds
Graham McElearney
Last summer saw the launch of a website built around current field research at Gardom's Edge in Derbyshire http://www.shef.ac.uk/~geap/ . This article highlights some of the ideas that went into the initial development of the site, how it relates to various aspects of the research, and how the first forays into this field have thrown up new questions and problems. The novel forms of access and engagement offered by web-based media, particularly for those communities that are often lumped together under the catch-all term `the public'. See also 99/117 & 99/116.
Archaeology and global information systems
Ian Hodder
The potential use of the Internet by archaeology in the organisation and institutionalisation of archaeological knowledge involving a shift from hierarchy to networks and flows, is considered. That the Internet may simply translate old forms of elite knowledge into new forms, increasingly excluding the un-networked is seen as a potential danger of this development. It is argued that care needs to be taken to provide different modes of access for different groups and to find ways round the exclusive tendencies associated with the dispersal of any new technology.
Data, digital ephemera, and dead media: digital publishing and archaeological practice
Mark S Aldenderfer
Archaeology, like so many academic disciplines, is in the midst of a period of dramatic change. One of the major sources of this change is the dramatic development of information technologies and how these impact on scholarly communication, particularly the publishing process. This paper explores some of these issues, and argues that a conservation ethic for data preservation be adopted that is explicitly digital.
Is History going to be on my side? On the experience of writing and submitting a hypermedia PhD thesis
Cornelius Holtorf
This paper outlines why and how I have used hypermedia technology and the World Wide Web in the construction of my Ph.D. thesis, how the end result compares with my initial aims and what I would do differently if I could start again. I also discuss how I persuaded my supervisor and the University of Wales to accept a doctoral thesis written in HTML and submitted on CD-Rom, and how my examiners coped before and during the viva.There are also sections about my perspective of the problems and potentials of hypermedia writing in future archaeology. Among the most important challenges are, in my view, questions of permanent accessibility and necessary changes of reading habits. The benefits of publishing without commercial publishers, and making use of non-linear writing, expressing intertextuality, and keeping the text open-ended and thus 'alive' will become obvious when they are used more radically than is often the case now.
The electronic dissertation: a less radical approach
Andre Costopoulos
An alternative approach to the virtual dissertation from another article in this issue (see 99/1017) emphasising the advantages of mass storage and easy access which are inherent to the media. The possibility of including non-textual documents and massive amounts of raw data in an academic publication are illustrated. Included in the author's dissertation was a working version of his simulation as well as 150,000 pages of simulated data on which the analysis was based. These would have had to be left out of a strictly paper document. In response to Holtorf, this short account of the production and submission of the author's CD dissertation, concentrating on the differences and similarities between the processes experienced as well as the approaches used, is offered. The advent of electronic publishing is seen here as a natural development of the communication of scientific results rather than as a hypertext revolution.
From order to chaos: publication, synthesis and the dissemination of data in a digital age
Sally Exon
Vincent L Gaffney
It is asserted that the provision of authoritative, interpretative, syntheses is what archaeologists seek through publication. Further, that the first real challenge of the digital age has been to balance this trend and in contrast to archaeological practice over the last two decades, a shift toward the dissemination of raw data is being witnessed. This move towards dissemination to put it on an equal footing with publication and synthesis is here considered both irrevocable and fundamental. The provision of interactive data will begin to allow the formation of new relationships between archaeologists, archaeological organisations and the practice of archaeology. The range of digital provision which may be expected within a medium-sized archaeological organisation is demonstrated with reference to the situation at the University of Birmingham and Birmingham University Field Archaeology Unit (BUFAU).
Editorial
Judith Winters
Editorial for Issue 6
Review of Excavating Occaneechi Town: Archaeology of an Eighteenth-Century Indian Village in North Carolina.
Jonathan Bateman
A review of Excavating Occaneechi Town: Archaeology of an Eighteenth-Century Indian Village in North Carolina. 1998, edited by R.P. Stephen Davis Jr., Patrick C. Livingood, Trawick Ward, and Vincas P. Steponaitis. University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 0-8078-6503-6 [CD-ROM]
From Real Space to Cyberspace: Contemporary Conversations about the Archaeology of Slavery and Tenancy
Carol McDavid
This paper will describe the Levi Jordan Plantation web project http://www.webarchaeology.com/ in which interactivity is seen as more than just providing web site visitors with buttons, sound bites and video clips, and multivocality as more than the passive presentation of "diverse pasts". Collaborators (including archaeologists and descendant community members) are attempting to use web site content as well as various on-line mechanisms to promote conversations about the past between archaeologists and the public, and between members of the public with each other. This paper will describe the specific strategies being used, and will comment on the theoretical, epistemological, and practical challenges that archaeologists face in this new communicative environment.