Collection Highlights
In the following sections colleagues and collaborators present their personal views on some favourite ADS resources.
Internet Archaeology the ADS and Whittlewood
Judith Winters
Editor Internet Archaeology
The e-journal Internet Archaeology and the Archaeology Data Service have worked closely together for the last 10 years. We have shared and continue to share offices, hardware, expertise, a director and even a birthday! However for me, the 'Whittlewood' archive represents a new level of this on-going collaboration and a deepening of our already close partnership. The Whittlewood Project: Medieval Settlements and Landscapes in the Whittlewood Area was undertaken by Professor Christopher Dyer, Dr Richard Jones, Dr Mark Page. The collection presents the results of a project that explored the origins and development of a group of rural settlements in the Central Midlands, but it also makes up one half of the first 'Making the LEAP' exemplars.
The LEAP project is a joint IA-ADS collaboration, funded by the AHRC under the ICT Strategy programme, which aims to investigate novel ways in which electronic publication can provide broad access to research findings in the arts and humanities. The LEAP exemplars (Whittlewood is the first of four) aim to enable the underlying data from
an archaeological research project to be made available in such a way so that readers can 'drill down' seamlessly from the 'interpretative' top layer (an Internet Archaeology publication) into the online archive (hosted by ADS) to test the authors' interpretations and develop their own conclusions.
Thus the Whittlewood archive is our most recent attempt to utilise the web's capabilities and marry two related resources in a way that will be beneficial to the user. So while elements of the ADS collection are both pulled 'into' and 'linked from' the accompanying article in Internet Archaeology, the publication's GIS permits users to search and run queries seamlessly on the ADS archive.
Whittlewood:
http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/archive/whittlewood_ahrb_2006/index.cfm
LEAP:
http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/project/leap/
Judith Winters is the editor of Internet Archaeology: http://intarch.ac.uk
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