Tue 24 Jun 2008
I’m putting up a brief note to see if “pingback” features in the Open Context website are working, and if so, if they are useful. Here’s an example:
Would blog links to “raw” archaeological data be useful? How many excavations maintain blogs, and if they do, would back and forth linking between a weblog and a archaeological data resource like Open Context help researchers interpret their observations?
August 21st, 2008 at 11:28 am
Interesting that you should mention archaeological blogs. The state historic preservation office of one state I am familiar with has started to ask for archaeological blogs to be posted for Phase III data mitigation excavations, as the excavation is unfolding. The purpose would be to provide a publically-accessible portal for the archaeologists to comment on their ongoing work. This seen as a way to draw the public into historic preservation and archaeology and it may be a more common outreach technique as time goes by…