Past Thinking » Data http://www.pastthinking.com/blog Archaeology, museums, and heritage: news, opinions and digital developments Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:57:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 2006-2007 tom@goskar.com (Past Thinking) tom@goskar.com (Past Thinking) posts Where Past Meets Future Past Thinking Past Thinking tom@goskar.com No no http://www.pastthinking.com/blog/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg Past Thinking http://www.pastthinking.com/blog 144 144 More Creative Commons Archaeology Data http://www.pastthinking.com/blog/2008/05/29/more-creative-commons-archaeology-data/ http://www.pastthinking.com/blog/2008/05/29/more-creative-commons-archaeology-data/#comments Thu, 29 May 2008 11:18:50 +0000 Tom Goskar http://www.pastthinking.com/blog/?p=222 Framework Archaeology (a joint venture between Wessex Archaeology and Oxford Archaeology) have just released data from the excavations at Stansted Airport from between 1999 and 2004.

The data is released under an Attribution Non-Commercial Creative Commons license. This is good news for archaeologists and other interested parties to be able to reuse and share the data, and another step forward towards opening up data about our past.

Framework Archaeology also distribute a (Windows-based) free data viewer, which provides basic GIS functionality for viewing the Stansted and Heathrow Terminal 5 data. The installation process is simple – download the Free Viewer (as it is called) and run the installer. Then download the dataset, run the dataset installer, launch the software, and explore away…

For those that just want the raw Stansted data, the formats for download include csv, xml, gml, shp, data dictionary, photos (jpg), and sections (jpg).

The excavation data for Heathrow Terminal 5 was released by Framework Archaeology in a similar way last August.

Making data from such an important archaeological excavation is a great philosophical move, and I do hope that more organisations follow suit. The key will be to see what (if anything) people do with this data…

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The site is still in beta for the time being. Dan has had just one hour per day to work on this since March, and is pretty much self-taught.

I think you’ll agree, that this new site raises the bar for heritage websites in general.

Link: Celtic Coin Index (beta)

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