The Portable Antiquities Scheme

The Scheme runs on a rather tight budget, ergo we have quite a small pot for IT resources. The majority of our money has gone on buying development time from our excellent team at Oxford ArchDigital, who have produced our database.

As we now use the Google Analytics tools, in conjunction with analysis of our weblogs, it now makes it easier for the Scheme to work out if the architecture of this website is actually working.

Earlier today I wrote about the search plugin for firefox, our quick search system can interrogate these fields.
It isn’t a huge amount of fields, but they can be configured quite simply to be made searchable. If you have any suggestions of fields that you think would be useful to add to these (like I said [...]

The Scheme’s database is seen by many as being extremely difficult to navigate. We do agree that it has been built with more of an emphasis on recording objects, rather than on the public user. However changes are coming…..

Less than 11 months after I found and handed this tiny piece of excitement over to Caroline my FLO , it has now been before the Treasure Valuation Committee on the 30th June. Prior to that two separate valuations were done by the “experts” who are called into the British Museum by the DCMS to [...]