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FASTI & FURIOUS … (re)Introducing FASTI Online Jessica Ogden Stuart Eve Guy Hunt www.fastionline.org

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Re-introducing•A brief history of FASTI Online• Some challenges along the way• The latest greatest FASTI• Some more challenges..

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A brief history of• FASTI Archaeologici: 1946 - 1987• A mechanism for Institutes in Rome to publish their findings on digs throughout the Mediterranean• Managed by AIAC (International Association for Classical Archaeology)• ‘Interventions’ published in note form in giant books for institute libraries• Paper publication was discontinued in 1998 by board of directors

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A brief history ofThe Birth• In 2003 AIAC, with development by L - P : Archaeology, launched FASTI Online• Originally funded by Packard Humanities Institute (PHI)• FASTI FOLD&R was launched in 2004• v2.0 was launched in 2007, and v3.0 is soon to be launched in 2012

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A brief history ofConsiderations FASTI Online had to be: • Multi-lingual. • Spatial. • Temporal. • Focused.

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A brief history of ...In comes FASTI-ARK• v1.0 written from scratch..• ARK : The Archaeological Recording Kit• Open source, runs on Apache, MySQL, PHP with WFS/WMS capabilities• Under development by L - P since 2004

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A brief history ofFASTI ARK v2.0

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A brief history of Temporal Spatial Multilingual

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Some challenges• Administering multi-lingual capabilities whilst keeping the site up to date• Maintaining highly customised code within the ARK architecture• Using and updating big spatial data sets• Facilitating discoverability and connectivity to other resources

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Some challenges• Administering multi-lingual capabilities whilst keeping the site up to date• Maintaining highly customised code within the ARK architecture• Using and updating big spatial data sets• Facilitating discoverability and connectivity to other resources

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Some ideasEnter FASTI v3.0 Spatially enabled Biblio?

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Some ideas

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(More) challenges• Google Maps and fuzzy locators• Relevance and utility. Is linked data useful for FASTI?• Periodization. (Spatial-Temporal)• Funding and questions of sustainability.

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Some thoughts• Resource discoverability and open content the way forward. FASTI is fulfilling a role.• Recent (upcoming) strides made in arena of spatial temporal representation• University hosting in the works, and ARK is here to stay!