'20th Century London' Project IT Strategy
On Line Galleries and Narrative Workshop, Manchester City Galleries, Manchester Museums Consortium, December 12, 2005
Paper: The IT Strategy for 'Exploring 20th Century London'
Museums Association Conference, October 24, 2005
Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, London
Archive report: Çatalhöyük Archive Report 2005
I wrote the Database & IT Team report for the Çatalhöyük Archive Report 2005. The abstract is below.
Seminar paper: The development of the Ceramics and Glass website
'The development of the Ceramics and Glass website' (Powerpoint slides)
Ceramics and Glass Seminar, November 18, 2004
Mortimer Wheeler House, Museum of London
Archive report: Çatalhöyük Archive Report 2004
While I'd started working on the project in 2003, 2004 was my first year on site at Çatalhöyük, a research dig at a Neolithic site in Anatolian Turkey.
My role was to discover the data recording, analysis and publication requirements for various specialist labs as well as the dig as a whole while working to clean, merge and centralise various stand-alone Access databases onto a single SQL Server installation. I worked on specialist databases including Figurines, Pottery, Stamp seals, Human remains, Digital photography, Faunal, Crates, Finds Log, Conservation, Micromorphology, and the shared Diary.
While I was familiar with the single context recording system used on site, as a post-processual site, it was an interesting change from working with MoLAS and I found my previous background as a humanities student informed my understanding of the need to structure the recording of material and formal characteristics of various finds across existing specialisms.
With Rich May I wrote a brief Database & IT Developments report for the Çatalhöyük Archive Report 2004. The impact of the on-going database work is evident in other reports, such as the Figurines 2004 report.