Finding your way to the map:
The challenges of delivering
geospatial data for archaeologists.
Stuart Jeffrey, sj523@york.ac.uk
Edinburgh, 23rd July 2007
“To support research, learning and teaching
with high quality and dependable digital
resources.”
Advisory Comm.
Finding your way to the map:
• Analysis
• Distribution maps and The Treachery of Images
• Post-processualism and phenomonology
• Discovery
• ‘Clicky maps’ to WebGIS to WMS
• Management
• Currency, Accuracy, Audience and Ownership
•The Three Dimensional Map
• The Treachery of Models
Finding your way to the map:
•Discovery
• ‘Clicky maps’ to WebGIS to WMS
• Management
• Currency, Accuracy, Audience and Ownership
•The Three Dimensional Map
• The Treachery of Models
ArchSearch
http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/
Several hundred “thick” archives
1,000,000 “thin” records
=1000 or so complete publications 200
or so digital research archives and
supporting material (growing rapidly)
= basic site information
= links to other data sources
Catalogue Records
site
digital
archive
other
digital
data
Contact details and reference numbers
ArchSearch
http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/
With …
PSAS, CTRL, ALSF
CBA Research Reports
Heirnet Register
Defence of Britain
Danebury, Spitalfields
The Excavation Index
ArchWay
NMR,Canmore, Coflein
… and many more
Finding your way to the map:
The challenges of delivering
geospatial data for archaeologists.
Stuart Jeffrey, sj523@york.ac.uk
Edinburgh, 23rd July 2007