A lecture for the Public Archaeology course at UCL, 3/12/12 Links for all things mentioned are on the penultimate slide, it would mean far more with the text to go with it.

1. Digital Archaeology

2. I am not talking about
rescuing old or damaged
data…

3. I am talking about applying
digital techniques to
archaeological
data, theory, method and
practice…

4. A founder of
public
archaeology:
Today the public has
every right to its
archaeology, palatably
garnished…
1955: 64

5. Recent statements
"The future has to be, without question, the museum as a publisher and
broadcaster"
Neil MacGregor (Director of the British Museum)
"The challenge is, to what extent do we remain authors, and in what sense do
we become publishers providing a platform for international conversations?
I am certain that in the next 10 to 15 years, there will be a limited number of
people working in galleries, and more effectively working as commissioning
editors working on material online.”
Nicholas Serota (Director of the Tate)

6. Essential texts

7. Large scale digital repositories

8. Social media experimentation

9. Open source site based
archaeology

10. Opensource tools

11. Licensing

12. Ahead of the game

19. CIDOC-CRM

20. Let’s return to MacGregor & Serota…

21. Museum as a broadcaster

22. Collaboration: BBC/BM

23. A history of the World
Print
Digital
Radio

24. BT Vision: Museum on demand

25. Museum as a publisher…

26. Book of the dead app

27. Gebelein Man: #murder3500BC
Gallery 64 until mid December

28. 3D technology

29. Stonehenge laser scan

30. DIY 3D: Horse Selene

31. Polynomial Texture Mapping

32. Computed tomography: The
Selby Hoard

33. Reconstruction
• http://vimeo.com/54117535 - Grant
Cox’s Catal Hoyuk
• http://vimeo.com/45452797 - Grant Cox
Selby Hoard

34. Archaeology: games

35. Evolving genre

40. Mobile experience

42. VERA: Roman Silchester
Image from Melissa Terras blog

43. The iPad at Pompeii

44. The Google Art Project

45. Digital Dead Sea Scrolls

46. Follow guidelines
For example the HLF document:Thinking about…
Using digital technology in
heritage projects

47. Follow standards

48. Don’t be afraid to fail

49. Evaluate

50. Jump on the social web

51. Is it a con?
• Are projects on socmedia making an
impact?
• Are people using it effectively?
• Ask Lorna Richardson in a year’s time.

52. The Search for Tamerlane: Google+

53. Crowdsourcing archaeology

56. Crowdfunding archaeology

58. Are kickstarter funded projects
different to great excavations, or
expeditions like Warren’s
excavations in Jerusalem?

59. Public subscription to fund
archaeology? 19th Century? 21st
Century?
Discuss. This is a good thing.
More please.

60. Back to Wheeler
..the days of private patronage are
over, and most field archaeology
comes out of our rates and taxes..
Still Digging 1955:64

61. A new model of delivery for a
tired format?

63. Discussion and papers

64. URLS in this lecture
http://bitly.com/bundles/portableant/6
49 links (Lara Croft, Lego, Indiana Jones
etc)

65. End.
dpett@britishmuseum.org
@portableant