| ADS ONLINE - ISSUE 14 - Virtual Communities - ISSN 1368-0560 | Front Page | Contents |
Since the launch of ArchSearch II last summer, a few useful additions have been made to the ArchSearch interface.
The Search by Resource interface now allows users to search on associated identifiers such as SMR or NMR numbers. Another useful amendment to ArchSearch has been the addition of a drop-down list of MIDAS period terms with which to search the catalogue. This feature is available through the Search by Resource interface or where the user chooses to refine the results of a Basic Search.
For some time now, records in our catalogue have been enhanced by the inclusion of links to a street map and aerial photograph of the area from www.multimap.com. This has recently been extended by creating links to www.old-maps.co.uk. This online service provides access to an extensive historical map archive, jointly owned by Landmark and the Ordnance Survey. From the records in ArchSearch it is now possible to link straight to one of the early edition OS maps.
The ADS are now the proud owners of a brand new development server. This is great news for us as it allows us to try out enhancements and alterations to our systems without the risk of upsetting our public systems. Work we intend to carry out in the near future includes evaluating the latest version of Oracle (9i), and setting up ESRI's ArcIMS, a web-based Geographic Information System with which we hope to be able to disseminate spatial datasets through our web site.
In addition, the recent expansion of 2gb of RAM on our main web and database server has resulted in speedier catalogue searching through ArchSearch. This will ensure that the catalogue can satisfy the growing demand from the user community.
We are pleased to announce that in the last few months 27 more Council for British Archaeology (CBA) Research Reports have been made available through as pdf files. These include volumes 4 and 5 of the Danebury excavation report. These Danebury reports compliment the new online archive of the Danebury excavations described in the previous issue of ADS News. Other recent additions include R Hodges and B Hobley's edited volume on The Rebirth of towns in the West AD 700-1050 and Waterfront Archaeology: Proceedings of the third international conference in Bristol. We now have an almost uninterrupted sequence of research reports up to number 86. Not surprisingly these out-of-print publications have proved to be one of our most popular resources. We are therefore continuing to work hard to prepare further reports for release in the near future.
For a full listing of CBA Research Reports online visit: http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/library/cba/rrs.cfm
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