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FASTI & FURIOUS
… (re)Introducing FASTI Online
Jessica Ogden
Stuart Eve
Guy Hunt
www.fastionline.org
2.
Re-introducing
•A brief history of FASTI Online
• Some challenges along the way
• The latest greatest FASTI
• Some more challenges..
3.
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
4.
A brief history of
The 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
5.
A brief history of
Considerations
FASTI Online had to be:
• Multi-lingual.
• Spatial.
• Temporal.
• Focused.
6.
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
8.
A brief history of
Temporal Spatial
Multilingual
9.
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
10.
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
11.
Some ideas
Enter FASTI v3.0
Spatially enabled Biblio?
13.
(More) challenges
• Google Maps and fuzzy locators
• Relevance and utility. Is linked data
useful for FASTI?
• Periodization. (Spatial-Temporal)
• Funding and questions of
sustainability.
14.
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!