The Portable Antiquities Scheme

I started this post about 3 weeks ago and forgot all about it. However, one of Tom Goskar’s tweets reminded me about the relaunch of Wessex Archaeology’s website. Like Surrey Archaeology Society’s website, this is another site done with Drupal as the content system and it has been heavily modified to allow the Wessex team [...]

Last Friday (20th June 2008) the British Museum’s departmental web representatives had a presentation from George Oates one of the key people behind the relatively new initiative from Yahoo!’s Flickr team known as “The Commons“. It was an interesting talk, and highlighted what they are trying to achieve, and why this service could be [...]

Andrew Larcombe asked me by Twitter yesterday for a feed of images from the database for Surrey. This could be reused on the Surrey Archaeology Society website. Andrew has redeveloped their site using Drupal as the content management system, with jQuery as the javascript framework. They have some nice features (flickr feed, presentations on slideshare) [...]

If you’re interested in getting the latest images direct from the Scheme’s database, please feel free to subscribe to the Scheme’s feed: http://www.finds.org.uk/rss/imagefeed.php
When I have finished the database rebuild, we’ll have geo referenced feeds on demand and various other data formats for you to reuse. Enjoy.

The MLA has commissioned a review of the Portable Antiquities Scheme. Its aim will be to ensure the scheme is as effective as possible and look at:

The objectives of the scheme in the light of changes in regional museum provision, most particularly the Renaissance programme
Options for levels of activity and funding
How the scheme can be [...]