http://wit.shef.ac.uk/archaeotools/

 

Aims

• Aimed at building an e-archaeology application to allow archaeologists to discover, share, and analyse datasets and legacy publications which have hitherto been very difficult to integrate into existing digital frameworks.

Project Plan

The project consists of three workpackages.

• Workpackage one (WP1): The aim of workpackage one is to index the ADS database of over one million metadata records describing sites and monuments in the UK, according to three criteria: When, What and Where.
• Workpackage two (WP2): Workpackage two will employ natural language processing (NLP) to search within documents for terms which are part of known classification schemes, adding them to the facetted index, and providing much deeper and richer access to unpublished archaeological literature.
• Workpackage three (WP3) In WP3: Tools produced in previous workpackages will also be employed to investigate whether it is also possible to identify and harvest index terms within older antiquarian literature as represented by back runs of archaeological journals currently being digitised and being made available online.

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Publications

• The first scheduled presentation will be by the ADS at the 36th Annual Conference on Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA 2008) which will be held on 2nd-6th April 2008 in Budapest, Hungary.

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Participants

• Project manager: Prof. Fabio Ciravegna
• Research Associate: Sam Chapman
• Research Associate: Ziqi Zhang

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