The Portable Antiquities Scheme

The think tank “Demos” published their study entitled ‘Culture, participation and the web‘ which their website refers to as:
an interesting case study, bringing together lessons learnt about how to organise online engagement, and a point of departure for asking questions about future directions.
I’ve downloaded the copy and it is interesting to note that the document [...]

Lord Bruce-Lockhart has been appointed Chair of English Heritage, the Government’s statutory advisor on the historic environment, Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell announced today.
New chairman announcement
The press release lists the following as his biographical background:
Lord Bruce-Lockhart is currently Chair of the Local Government Association. Having qualified at the Royal Agricultural College, he has farmed in [...]

Today I’m presenting a paper at a CBA organised conference on databases, portals and web 2.0 technology at the British Museum. The paper I am giving will present more about work that we’re implementing at the moment on the Scheme’s database and also on the revamped CCI.
The CCI is still in beta test and needs [...]

A story on BBC today relates the return of a Roman ring to Turkey:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/leicestershire/6680191.stm
The Scheme gave advice to the Curator, Jonathan Wallis, about the legal position relating to this find.

This article aims to lay to rest some of the gripes that many people have with the Portable Antiquities Scheme database. Since I joined the Scheme in April 2003 from an Investment Bank, I have been responsible for the development of the Scheme’s IT infrastructure. Compared to the budget of the projects on which I [...]