The Portable Antiquities Scheme

Apologies for the lack of posting on the blogs recently. I'm currently engaged in rebuilding the Scheme database to make it more usable and also more joined up. This is going to take a while and I'm using Zend Framework as the base. I think I should share some code and here's a view helper [...]

The forthcoming Hadrian exhibition is now starting to generate quiet a lot of coverage in the press. The RSS feed from Yahoo! (Google has tables in their markup and that ruined my aesthethics ) incorporated into this post updates with the latest news stories relating to the exhibition. Happy reading
Last night also [...]

I've had a couple of queries over the last week regarding the traffic light system that we use on our database. This reflects our workflow system of publication and is explained below:
- The red dot, which researchers and Finds Liaison Officers, admin and Finds Advisers can see means that the artefact record is incomplete. [...]

I'm on the way to Dublin right now and I've just finished my presentation for the session I'm speaking at tomorrow. It is now available on slideshare as I've just uploaded it from Gatwick. Probably not that useful without the words to accompany it....

World Archaeology Congress Paper

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) [...]