Transatlantic Archaeology Gateway

Stuart Jeffrey, 10th March 2010

The ADS and an introduction to web services, or a brief history of archaeological interoperability

• Guides to Good Practice• Digital Preservation

Including faunal remains datasets

• Access to data via the InternetTeaching and Learning resources

• Technical advisory service to grant applicants and grant-giving agencies

“To support research, learning and teaching with high quality and dependable digital resources.”

Google Earth

NMS NMRS WOSAS NMRW Etc…

1,000,000 “thin” records:

• basic site information from NMR/HER/SMR

• links to other data sources

Catalogue Records

site digitalarchive

Direct external link – (or contact details

and reference numbers

otherdigitaldata

Several hundred “thick” archives:

• 1000’s of articles and complete publications • 500 or so digital research archives and supporting material (growing rapidly)

ArchSearchhttp://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/

Z39.50 & OAI Search

Set When Query Set What QueryWhere QueryOptional Search Map

Thesaurus of Monument Types

MIDAS Period List

Latitude - Longitude

Service Oriented ArchitectureService Oriented Architecture

Image from :www.hitcha.co.th

SOA: The SOA: The MovieMovie

Contains frequent technical references and explicit scenes of interoperability.Contains frequent technical references and explicit scenes of interoperability.

http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/arena/ARENA2.html

ARENA 2 prototype interface

Welcome to the TAG Faunal remains search portal