The Portable Antiquities Scheme

The British Museum website now features more information on the Scheme and its activities and the information held within the research register is probably of interest to some of our readers. We currently have 4 major projects on the go for Central Unit staff and over 60 for external students and Universities. Sam Moorhead is [...]

One of the projects demonstrated at the Data Sans Frontieres conference last week was the English Heritage and ALGAO backed project known as Heritage Gateway. This is intended to be:
A prototype website was first made available in April 2006 after a year of planning and development. This provided access to a boundary map of [...]

For anyone interested in heritage, the Society of Antiquaries newsletter known as SALON, can now be read on their spiffing new website. There’s always a variety of information and you can also see job vacancies and information about who has been elected to their fellowship recently.
The campus by the Royal Academy might well be familiar [...]

For anyone watching the BBC Wales series entitled the Museum, you might be interested by the following talks:

Thursday 31 May 13.00 Gods and symbols in the Assyrian reliefs
Thursday 14 June 13.00 The mystery of Michelangelo’s last drawing
Wednesday 20 June 13.00 Shopping for money: acquiring modern coins and banknotes
Tuesday 26 June 13.00 [...]

I’ve just got back from Google’s developer day at the Brewery in Chiswell Street, London. The sessions I was most interested in were the mapping applications. Ed Parsons, formerly of the Ordnance Survey gave an overview of what they are up to and highlighted the usefulness of KML and geoRSS files for indexing site content.
I’ve [...]