A colleague pointed me at the BBC homepage today, which was featuring a nice slideshow displaying images of Stonehenge. The photos linked through to a story entitled “Stonehenge building riddle tackled“. It’s always fun to suggest how the great sarsen lintels might have been raised on top of the upright stones, and there have been [...]
Archive | August, 2007
Heathrow T5 archaeology data released under Creative Commons
Last week, Framework Archaeology launched an update to their Archaeology at Heathrow T5 website. The update includes an improved version of their (Windows only) free GIS that allows you to explore the hard archaeological data collected during “Perry Oaks” phase of the investigations. Crucially, the raw data behind the GIS has been released in a [...]
lamusediffuse – Libya and the social web
I was recently sent information about a project called “lamusediffuse“, an interesting project which aims to increase global awareness of Libyan museums and their collections via the web. lamusediffuse proposes the use of Social Web tools for the inclusion of not-dominant cultural expressions in the scopes of culture diffusion on the Internet. Accordingly with this [...]
Survey on the usage of Creative Commons by cultural heritage organisations
A survey is being carried out by the Eduserv Foundation into the use of more open licensing schemes such as Creative Commons by cultural heritage organisations. Jordan Hatcher, formerly a Research Associate at the AHRC Research Centre for studies in Intellectual Property and Technology Law, is leading a study into how open content licences are [...]
