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Paper: Clay pipe recording at MoLAS and the stamped pipes makers’ mark website

Paper: Clay pipe recording at MoLAS and the stamped makers' mark website

SCPR Annual Conference, September 16, 2006
London Archaeological Archive and Research Centre, Mortimer Wheeler House

The paper discusses the process from initial specification through requirements gathering, database design, development of the database application and website, to publication online.  This was later published in the Newsletter of the Society for Clay Pipe Research.

Update, December 2011: if you're interested in clay pipes, you may be interested in Locating London's Past. The site also has an article that explains how Museum of London Archaeology (MoLA) Datasets – including clay pipes and glass – have been incorporated into the site.  NB: other than adding these links, I haven't updated the original 2006 paper, so it doesn't include any enhancements made for this new work.  On a personal note, it's lovely to see that the sites, and the backend work behind them, still have value.

Update, November 2012: the Society for Clay Pipe Research's Newsletter featured as Guest Publication in the BBC's Have I Got News For You. Fame, at last!

Society for Clay Pipe Research Newsletter on Have I Got News For You

Update, January 2015: possibly the best clay pipe ever?

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Archive report: Çatalhöyük Archive Report 2006

As the Çatalhöyük Archive Report 2006 is only available online as a large PDF, I've copied the report below [update: and put the PDF on Humanities Commons at https://doi.org/10.17613/2shn-2v07], but you can find additional reporting of my work in specialist reports like the Figurines report. I also contributed to the Çatalhöyük blog during the 2006 season.

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My Flickr album of photos from 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 on-site (plus trips to Konya and journeys to and from site)

Çatalhöyük blog posts, 2006:

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Report: The Tony Dyson Archive Project: Report of a pilot study investigating the creation of a digital archive of medieval property transactions along the City waterfront

A write-up of some requirements analysis and database work I did for a pilot with the Museum of London Archaeology Service on digitising an archive of  medieval property records of the parishes (mostly Hustings Rolls, the records of the medieval Court of Husting).  The report is co-authored with Nick Holder and Nathalie Cohen.

The Tony Dyson Archive Project: Report of a pilot study investigating the creation of a digital archive of medieval property transactions along the City waterfront (PDF)

(PDF version of report, without mapping and plan diagrams.)

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2005: an overview

An incomplete, retrospective list of work, talks and more in 2005…

Photo of three people in a seminar room with a computer screen projected on a wall
Me and Tuna sharing updates on database work in the seminar room at Çatalhöyük Research Project

In 2005 I did more fieldwork at Çatalhöyük and gave a seminar on 'Not One Voice But Many: The Çatalhöyük Database' while I was on-site in July 2005. Some of my work is documented in the Çatalhöyük Archive Report 2005, including work on ground stones, macro botany, and figurines reports, as well as my own brief database report Çatalhöyük 2005 Archive Report Database and IT Team.

I gave a paper on 'The IT Strategy for Exploring 20th Century London' at the Museums Association Conference, October 24, 2005, Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, London.

I also did a talk on the '20th Century London' Project IT Strategy at the On Line Galleries and Narrative Workshop, Manchester City Galleries, Manchester Museums Consortium, December 12, 2005.