Internet Archaeology Links, layers and LEAPs Judith Winters Editor, Internet Archaeology
Contents electronic publication and archaeology journal background developing integrated publication LEAP / LEAP II projects
Archaeological publishing Publication seen as an integral part of archaeological excavation 1960s and 1970s Shift from exhaustive to selective publication Primary record is archive rather than the publication Today Great variation in publication policy across the discipline, and greater integration between description and interpretation PUNS report
Digital publication data is ‘born digital’ archaeologists want - access to data - to produce more exploratory writing - more synthetic, narrative histories that addresses concerns about dissemination and multi-vocality
peer-reviewed international - no chronological restrictions no print version text, data, images, VRML, QTVR, SVG, video, sound archived by Archaeology Data Service Internet Archaeology
Landmarks year grant from eLib programme issue 1 published grant extension, 1 st publication subvention introduction of subscriptions (institutional and individual), advertising JISC access agreement for UK HE/FE open access for fully funded content
Approach flexible, responsive – rights, commissioning content, keeping options open, no rigid template appropriate standards for interoperability and longevity - file formats, metadata, storage media and delivery systems increased editorial contact results in a flexible final publication where authors have a say in the delivery and presentation
Range of content long and short themed issues methodology fieldwork landscape studies artefacts specialist reports applications of IT
Developing integration Early database and map interfaces (Issues 1-5)
Developing integration Early database and map interfaces (Issues 1-5)
Developing integration Early attempts at integrating publication with digital archive (issues 9-10)
Anglian and Anglo-Scandinavian Cottam: linking digital publication and archive. Issue 10
Developing integration Integrating GIS (Issues 17-20)
LEAP project Linking Electronic Archives and Publications Joint IA/ADS project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) under the ICT Strategy Programme Make underlying data available so that readers are enabled to 'drill down' to test interpretations and develop their own conclusions
LEAP project Changing Settlements and Landscapes: Medieval Whittlewood, its Predecessors and Successors (Issue 19)
LEAP project Joining the Dots: Continuous Survey, Routine Practice and the Interpretation of a Cypriot Landscape (Issue 20)
Joining the Dots: Continuous Survey, Routine Practice and the Interpretation of a Cypriot Landscape. Issue 20
LEAP project Silchester Roman Town Insula IX: The Development of an Urban Property c. AD c. AD 250 (Issue 21)
Silchester Roman Town Insula IX: The Development of an Urban Property c. AD c. AD 250
LEAP project The landscapes of Islamic Merv, Turkmenistan: Where to draw the line? (Issue 25)
LEAP II Four exemplars multi-layered e- publications (projects hosted in US institutions) with comment/debate facility
LEAP II exemplars Exemplar 1: The Shala Valley Project, Northern Albania Exemplar 2: Placing immateriality: situating the material of highland Chiriquí, Panamá Exemplar 3: The BTC Pipeline Archaeological Excavations in Azerbaijan Exemplar 4: Strategies for developing a next- generation virtual museum using close range scanning
Integrated publication reader works with different levels of information and explores the links between interpretation and data through a variety of interfaces information no longer required to be split across several publications explicit interrogation creates an active, ‘used’ and visible archive multiple pathways through the text into and out of archive boundaries are blurred integrating text with data, evidence with interpretation: creating a new dialectic
Implications shaping how projects develop shifts publication back towards data affects archaeological practice and the narratives we create
Internet Archaeology Links, layers and LEAPs Judith Winters