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Objects by year
449,359 objects online @ 23:20 26/2/10 – 400K in 7 years!
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 afterwards
All PAS records mapped using GIS
New database built in house
2 servers cost £7,000 Server consultancy cost £2,000 No other money spent
Enhanced geo data via flickr shapefiles & Yahoo! geoplanet
Dots colours indicate workflow stage – green ones are fully verified.
Omphalos base and
indentations can be seen
New functions – data sourcing for enhancement
Uses wide range of 3rd party data sources
Extensive data revisions
Linked data
If errors found
can feedback and we get the
benefit. No duplication of
efforts!
Draw in data from dbpedia for reuse
Pull data from our database and the BM collections online to teach numismatics
Parliamentary data via Hansard
• Can find out if an MP or Peer has ever spoken
about archaeology
• Can find all archaeological monuments and public discoveries in their constituency's
bounding box
• We can approach those who haven’t been
supportive of the Scheme or archaeology if their
area is highly productive • We can raise our political profile!
• Any other heritage body can use this as a tool!
Guardian news articles about PAS Create a searchable archive of stories
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.
This is obviously Stonehenge, and no we don’t have any recorded metal
detector activity here. The above just demonstrates the Google Earth plugin on our new database. If you’re interested this is WOEID 26351828 and is 87
metres above sea level.
We can limit zoom interface Obfuscate the findspot
Variety of formats to view
Flickr love
The end. Visit our new website from 1st week in April
@ www.finds.org.uk
Contact me: [email protected]
