The Portable Antiquities Scheme

After the Mashed Museum Day at Leicester, I was inspired to try tagging the Scheme’s blogs via the OpenCalais service provided by Reuters (incidentally, the Chairman of our Trustees is rather high up there….) This was done with two plugins created by Dan Grossman:

WP Calais Archive Tagger
WP Calais Auto Tagger

Both of these plugins need curl [...]

AHRC Research Grants Scheme Project PhD studentship
The Gallo-Roman sigillata (samian) industries

Limit of tenure: Fixed term funding, no renewal. Limit of tenure: 3-year PhD studentship running from 1st October 2008 to 30th September 2011
Professor Michael Fulford, Department of Archaeology, School of Human and Environmental Sciences, University of Reading has been successful in obtaining research grant [...]