Open Objects reports that the London Archaeological Archive and Research Centre (LAARC) are conducting an excavation at the Michael Faraday School in Southwark, London, and are posting much of the information online, as events happen. They have a wiki, a collection of photos on Flickr, and videos on YouTube, which are all updated throughout each [...]
Archive | June, 2007
New author on Past Thinking
Regular readers of Past Thinking might have noticed that the previous post “Learn medieval Latin online” wasn’t written by me: Without further ado, I’d like to introduce Tehmina Goskar as a new author on Past Thinking. Tehmina is well known in the spheres of museums and medieval history, and is also the only person I [...]
Learn medieval Latin online
Much of our past is contained in documents few of us can read, let alone understand and interpret. The National Archives have created a set of online tutorials in beginner’s and advanced medieval Latin and palaeography, or, how to read old handwriting. It is the first time a course like this has been offered, free [...]
Podcasting – should museums listen?
As promised, here is a re-recording of the talk that I gave at the Museums Association Digital Dialogues conference. It is, of course, available as a podcast. Feel free to comment here. If there’s interest, I’ll also post my presentation for people to download. If you’d like to subscribe to this and future podcasts from [...]
Podcasting and Museums
Tomorrow, I’ll be giving a paper at the Digital Dialogues conference in the Victoria and Albert Museum. I may well re-record my talk and release it as a podcast here on Past Thinking, if people are interested. I won’t be talking about how to podcast, there’s plenty of guides and forums for that, but rather [...]
Celtic Coin Index
I urge you to try out the new Celtic Coin Index website. Dan Pett has built the website for this fabulous resource from scratch, and it’s packed with modern features such as Google Maps, RSS, GeoRSS, tag clouds, and even an API (coming soon). The site is still in beta for the time being. Dan [...]
