The Portable Antiquities Scheme

I found this on the technorati RSS feed today, and I think it might be of interest to our Romanist following. It is exactly the sort of thing that we should do at the BM with regards to excavated sites etc. I haven’t gone in depth into this to find out how it was created, [...]

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 [...]

I’m not sure how interested you’ll be in the below, but I’ve just been plotting some GIS of the changing picture that the recording of objects through the Scheme has given to our national chance find distribution.

From left to right, the plots are:
a) All finds for 2003
b) All finds for 2003 to [...]

The British Museum is hosting a conference outlined below on 25 May 2007. I’m speaking about the benefits of RSS in various flavours and the syndication of content, only a 10 minute talk. I’ll also talk a bit about Pleiades and the CCI revamp.
Organised by the Historic Environment Information Resources Network (HEIRNET) and supported by [...]

Collaborative PhD in Roman coin finds in Britain: The Institute of Archaeology, University College London and the Portable Antiquities Scheme, The British Museum
This AHRC funded PhD will support a student in researching the 45,000 or more Roman coins that have been recorded by the Portable Antiquities Scheme (www.finds.org.uk) since 1997. The Project will start [...]